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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

James,
I have been in TN since 79 and in Greeneville since 85 and moved out in the 
county in 92 and then, as you say, every patch of ground had tobacco growing 
on it.  This year I have seen only 2 fields.
Glad to hear that you are finding more and more non smokers when out and 
about.
There is a gas station and store here that has bluegrass every Saturday 
night, I have never gone because of the smoking, maybe I will go and see if 
they still smoke. 
If I was the Vet I would offer some kind of monetary reward for not smoking 
during work hours.   Wonder if that would work?
Like you, here in TN ,I had the same type of thing in the suburbs of Chicago. 
 Everyone smoked almost without exception, my Mother never did nor did my 
grandmothers but even my peers used to make fun of me becuse Iwould not 
smoke.  My reason was that I was too cheap to spend the money, would rather 
buy a record and listen to music.  Now I am glad I never took up the habit.  
Now don't ask me about overeating (sigh) guess we all have a weak spot of 
some sort or another. ^GRIN^
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
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  Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] Big 10 Tobacco




  > >BUT here in North East TN it just makes me realize how many folks still 
  > smoke as no matter where I go I observe people outside on breaks and they 
are 
  > smoking because they can not do it in the buildings. 

  Jeanne, I've lived here all my life and I can most assuredly tell you that 
  smokling is far, far less prevalent than it used to be.  At one time it was 
all 
  but universal.

  Tennessee is likely not on the list because it does have aggressive laws 
  against sale of tobacco to minors and and far as I can observe, it is 
enforced.  
  And because it has very good laws agaisnt smoking in public buildings.  We 
are 
  right on the border of Tennessee and Virginia and what few times we go out 
  somewhere to eat, we try to make it in Tennessee even if it costs more 
because 
  there is not smoking in restaurants.

  Smokers stand out now of days like sore thumbs, they truly are the modern 
day 
  lepers.  So when you see the sad addicts standing just out of the rain in 
the 
  doorway, it calls attention to itself.  But the last place I had a gig, the 
  group of people I worked with directly and got to know numbered about 30.  
Out 
  of those only two were smokers and both of those were Brits.  None of the 
  locals smoked.

  Two summers ago I hired myself out to paint some rooms for a local hotel (a 
  Hampton Inn).  The place had 66 rooms and six of them were designated as 
  smoker's rooms with smoking prohibited in the other sixty.  Of course those 
six 
  rooms stank.  They were also empty most of the time as no one wanted them.  
To 
  convert them to non-smoking rooms required replacing all fixtures, 
furniture, 
  drapes, and carpet and repainting the room including the ceiling.    First 
the 
  hotel had me paint three of them.  Then when the remaining three stayed 
empty 
  even on crowded nights, they had me paint the other three and so there were 
no 
  rooms at all available for smokers.

  It was an economic decision but reflects that smoking is (no pun intended) 
a 
  dying habit.

  I live smack in the middle of what used to be tobacco growing country.  
Every 
  spare field of a couple of acres had a tobacco allotment and was tall with 
  tobacco in the summer.  Now of days you can drive ten miles along country 
roads 
  and see no tobacco fields.

  Good ridance!


  James
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