Smoking - a Steve Rant

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‘See that annoys me.’

Oh no here we go again thought Johnny, what's got his back up this time.

‘What does?’ He asked in a resigned tone.

‘That!’  Steve nodded in the direction of the offending article but despite having a good look Johnny couldn't see anyone or anything that could possibly be attracting Steve’s ire.

‘You're gonna have to enlighten me.’

‘Well this is a no smoking pub but that bloke is smoking.’

Johnny sniffed first to see if he could smell the offending cigarette and then turned round to look, but neither of his senses agreed with Steve.

‘Who?’

‘The bloke in the hat.’ Steve nodded in the direction of an oldish man in a black trilby.

Johnny looked again.

‘That's hardly smoking, it's an electronic cigarette.’

‘So what's he doing then?’ Steve paused but Johnny didn’t grace him with an answer. ‘In my opinion it's a no smoking pub so that means no smoking. Not some smoking or pretend smoking. No smoking. Full stop, no questions.’

‘But it's harmless vapour - you can't even smell it.’ There was tiredness in Johnny’s voice.

‘That's not the point, the point is where does it end? You wouldn't want him doing that on a plane or even at work, or imagine if he were a teacher could he do it in front of a class?’

‘So are you going to go over there and tell him?’ Johnny smiled as he challenged his prickly friend.

‘No but someone should.’

‘Well it's your round, you can tell the barman while he's pouring my Guinness.’

Steve took the hint and wandered over to the bar, giving the man in the hat dirty looks as he went.

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