Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Year by year it becomes harder to find a place to light a cigarette legally. Now Minnesota has passed the nation's most sweeping state law to date: "No person shall smoke in a public place or in a public meeting except in designated smoking areas." Possible fine...
...statute even extends to offices, which must be nonsmoking areas unless all employees smoke, though smoking rooms can be set aside. But it does not include bars, and one legal opinion holds that any restaurant that serves liquor can be considered a "bar." Still, the law shifts the balance of power between smoker and nonsmoker. It puts the burden on the smoker to find a smoking area, rather than on the non-smoker to find a spot of clean...
...appeal lies elsewhere, in the New Mexico air, which I suppose people respond to for the same reasons people respond to all rambling songs, under-the-canopled-sky songs, exotic marijuana music. In a lazy Mexican town people just smoke up all day, and it sure is as different from the suburbs as any place on the continent...
...into Daniel and Gay and Daniel's tow-headed friends from back home. Bridget and Jenny, on the way. They weren't as big nor quite as beautiful, but we were in a fit mood to be inspired so Daniel's invitation to go down to the river and smoke a few bowls was promptly accepted. Briggs volunteered to get a couple cases of dark Blitz...
...Pool Smoke. The killing shook Garrett's colleagues, but it also seemed to confirm the gossip and indicate that the attacks on the project itself were now finished. One of Garrett's friends, Donald Larsen, 37, assistant director of a similar vocational-training project in Eureka, applied to replace him at Gateway. The staffers got together to give the new director a welcoming party. As they were raising their glasses to toast the end of their troubles, smoke drifted over the nearby swimming pool. When they ran out to look, they found two of their cars burning fiercely...