Straha
Banned
Today's AH scenario concerns a social history query. As I define them,
the 'cigarette nazis' are the ultra-health nuts who want to make
cigarettes extinct, for the smokers' own good (I have never been a smoker
myself). There were 2 social requirements.
1)unless one did have a GENUINE medical reason not to, one was always
obligated to allow guests to smoke in one's home
and
2)hostesses were required to keep a variety of fresh cigs on hand at home
to give to smoking guests who may run out.
Today, OTOH, neither of these notions is at all acceptable, and indeed
most smokers are not only made to feel like pariahs by the nonsmoking
majority, thoroughly aided by Big Government, but the smokers themselves,
at least the adult ones, feel themselves pariahs, and genuinely guilty,
every time they even think of lighting up. Thus they meekly acquiesce in
the numerous rules and regs against cigs.
Question thus is to do what it takes to design to design a scenario
whereby these trends may be REVERSED, AND cig smoking will once again
become widespread-acceptable in our society, even among those who would
never consider smoking themselves.
the 'cigarette nazis' are the ultra-health nuts who want to make
cigarettes extinct, for the smokers' own good (I have never been a smoker
myself). There were 2 social requirements.
1)unless one did have a GENUINE medical reason not to, one was always
obligated to allow guests to smoke in one's home
and
2)hostesses were required to keep a variety of fresh cigs on hand at home
to give to smoking guests who may run out.
Today, OTOH, neither of these notions is at all acceptable, and indeed
most smokers are not only made to feel like pariahs by the nonsmoking
majority, thoroughly aided by Big Government, but the smokers themselves,
at least the adult ones, feel themselves pariahs, and genuinely guilty,
every time they even think of lighting up. Thus they meekly acquiesce in
the numerous rules and regs against cigs.
Question thus is to do what it takes to design to design a scenario
whereby these trends may be REVERSED, AND cig smoking will once again
become widespread-acceptable in our society, even among those who would
never consider smoking themselves.