Word: ares
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The incident occurred about 11:30 Christmas morning, as Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying 278 passengers from Amsterdam, was in its final descent into Detroit's international airport. According to the FBI affidavit, a few minutes before the events began, Abdulmutallab went into the bathroom for about 20 minutes then...
"The clear lack of inspection or punishment has inspired a small minority of smokers to ignore the ban - a lead that a growing number of their co-workers are deciding to follow," says Rémi Parola, a NSR official. "The law was effective in getting people to accept non...
And it's not just happening at work. NSR says non-enforcement is giving defiant smokers the courage to light up in other public areas. Some smokers now routinely puff away in bars or cafés and self-policing owners and managers are often hesitant to tell them to...
Anecdotal evidence also abounds that French smokers are pushing back in ways that they previously didn't dare. On some French train lines - all of which are officially non-smoking - smokers frequently take over certain cars, thus far escaping punishment. Butts are also turning up in greater numbers in Paris...
Down the street from the station, the manager of a plastic-enclosed caféterrace similarly rationalized bending the rules. "This is outside, and it's the only place where smokers are allowed, so it's all legal," says the man, who, perhaps aware that his enclosed smoking terrace is...