Side-Affects of the Cigarette Smoking Ban

Western society is so concerned with the health aspects of smoking that I just want to, “cough, cough” (excuse me), talk about the downside of the “smoking ban”.

Sitting on this bench made me realize

Park Bench
Barcelona, 2005

that in my day:

· I don’t know how many wedding couples gave matchbook favors with the name of the couple and the date of their, joyful nuptials. But there were countless, many.

· I don’t know how many rooms, lobbies, and bars in hotels, motels and inns had their names on the matchbook. But there were fantastically many.

· I don’t know how many people of both genders used the edge of the matchbook to dislodge a piece of “something or other” from between their teeth. But there were tremendously many.

· I don’t know how many matchbooks were used as a PDA file for giving or taking phone of vitally, important numbers between both genders. But the number is at least a google or more.

Hmm. (Musing while writing.) In one or two more generations, the children then will not know anything about the matchbook of today.

So, what will take the place of the soon demised match book that acted as an address book?

Park Bench
Barcelona, 2005

Answer: A bench’s slats.

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