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Originally Posted by Phalanx
One that's underway at the moment, that I personally consider pretty "big", is the gradual phasing out/banning of public smoking. It's a smart move...IMO a lot of smokers simply aren't respectful enough about it, I accept that they're spoiling their health, cool...but they don't tend to look outside and see the damage it does others, or don't acknowledge it anyhow. But yeah, I think this is one of those "big changes" I'll live to see.
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Yeah, I'm a smoker and I'm cool with it. If I have to smoke inside that bad, I'll join a private club that allows it. There are a lot of polite smokers (I consider myself to be one) who go out of their way to do things like put out their cigs & deposit the butts in receptacles, try the best they can to stand downwind from non smokers. When I'm waiting for a bus and lite up, I stand as far away from everyone as I can as to not be rude.
There's no way everyone can be taught these few simple rules of courtesy, so it probably needs to be done. When I visited my friend in Santa Monica, it was already in place. It was obnoxious at first, but I adjusted to it pretty quick.