Word: bathroom
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Pity the poor smoker. If he began puffing away as a teenager, he was probably forced to light up in the high school bathroom, away from the forbidding glares of teachers and parents. He grew up, got a job, raised a family and in general became a responsible, upstanding citizen. But he still smokes. There he is, sitting in a restaurant or waiting in a movie line or getting his shoes shined, and he pulls out a cigarette. Suddenly a stranger appears, tugs at his elbow and says ever so sweetly, "Thank you for not smoking...
Though adult smokers are not reduced quite yet to heading for the nearest high school bathroom, the places where they can legally light up are dwindling. Thirty-nine states and numerous localities now have ordinances against smoking on public transportation and in public places, including schools, hospitals, auditoriums, theaters and government buildings. Two weeks ago, New York City Mayor Ed Koch (who quit smoking in 1952) proposed what he termed the most stringent antismoking regulations in the nation. If enacted, Koch's law would forbid smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as taxis, stores and rest rooms (there goes that...
...housemates and the personal columns routinely rebuff smokers. "People don't even have ashtrays in their homes anymore," moans Joyce Hernandez, a secretary in Montvale, N.J., who quit last year after attending a dinner party at which she was forced to sneak a puff in, yes, the bathroom...
...often have to answer for the sins of my generation," he said, adding that being considered a representative of upscale decadence is sometimes a strain. "I had a reporter follow me into the bathroom to see if I was snorting cocaine. So I asked her if she had any," McInerney said...
Sunday night, the floor's other bathroom was plunged into darkness when the lights failed. Residents complained yesterday of exposed wiring, faulty plumbing, and walls which Eliot Hall resident Christine A. Burns '88 said are "virtually see-through...