In March 1984, the WWPNA Newsletter included a news item on smoking in supermarkets, which seems both timely (as Denver adjusts to the smoking ban in virtually all bars, restaurants, and workplaces) and timeless.

Read it below.

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Ban Smoking in Supermarkets?

An ordinance that would help stop smoking in grocery stores will be reintroduced this spring to City Council. It is a redrafted one that requires posted signs that smoking the store is unlawful. The health department would monitor the postings but the revision I have seen has no fines. Call Gertie at 333-4224 or 744-3882 for information.

Some people think it’s not enough. Others think it’s too much regulation, and that people are polite enough to put out cigarettes if asked. I tried the other day waiting in the checkout line. The smoker did extinguish the cigarette after blowing a lungful of smoke in my face. Maybe I wasn’t polite enough.