All Stories

The Anti-smoking Nazis of the USA

Tom Winnifrith
Monday 23 November 2015

Smokers are evil and must be persecuted at all costs. Such is the zeitgeist in the non-flyover states of the USA today.  All other minorities – apart from white, God Fearing Republican voters in the flyover states - must be protected at all costs but we smokers are evil. We are also nearly all black and poor and so perhaps used to getting a good kicking from the elites.

In the Starbucks in which I am working I am happy to accept that I must step outside for a fag. But there I am confronted with a notice saying that I cannot smoke within 25 feet of the building. The sidewalk is about 12 feet wide so I reckon that I have to stand about three quarters of the way into the street opposite. Smoking really is bad for your health when you have to risk getting killed by a car doing it.

So I shuffle a bit down the street and smoke outside a rather snooty wine store where there are no such signs. A woman walks by on the other side of the sidewalk so is at least ten feet away. Like most Americans she is overweight but I could not comment on that since that would be sizeist and Mayor Bloomberg would undoubtedly haul me in front of the courts for even thinking that she was a bit of a lard bucket.

The wind is strong today so my smoke is dissipated quickly. None the less the woman, who has about as much chance of catching my passive smoke as I do of shagging Cheryl Cole tonight, coughs in a very public way and waves her chubby little hands wildly across her face to ward off the smoke she cannot be inhaling.  I am made to feel guilty again.

Bollocks to that. If anything keeps me smoking, other than the fact that I am a pathetic addict, it is the fascism of the smoke Nazis. And for that tribe New York is their Mecca.

If you enjoyed reading this article from Tom Winnifrith, why not help us cover our running costs with a donation?
About Tom Winnifrith
Bio
Tom Winnifrith is the editor of TomWinnifrith.com. When he is not harvesting olives in Greece, he is (planning to) raise goats in Wales.
Twitter
@TomWinnifrith
Email
[email protected]
Recently Featured on ShareProphets
Sign up for my weekly newsletter








Required Reading

Recent Comments


I also read