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I used to work in bars. About ten years of it, to be precise. I blew a good bit of my hearing working in a bar, not to mention learning how to make lots of different drinks. So when I hear people who work in bars complaining about smoke and such, it beggars belief.
It's a BAR!!! What were you expecting?!? It ain't a health club. That there's things in the environment that just might be unhealthy shouldn't rank as a huge shock.
Finally, I'm not alone. Warren Ellis has his own take on it.
Bar staff complaining that passive smoking poses a health risk to them. So your job is to cajole people to buy tasty poison, break up fights, get bottled, mop up spew, breathe in old mens' aspirated diseases as they bellow for more beer over the counter, deal with a dozen different kinds of physical assault -- and it's passive smoking that's a threat to your health? You don't need new laws -- you need new jobs.
Amen, brother, amen.
Posted by Casper at July 5, 2004 10:24 PM