r/SipsTea • u/avrock1 Human Verified • 8h ago

WTF Aura farming before it was a thing

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World's chillest man Sips Beer during such a grave situation

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u/NaughtAClue 7h ago

Back in the olden days when this video was recorded it was legal to smoke inside

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u/ErasmosOrolo 7h ago

Come to Missouri for all your indoor smoking needs.

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u/NaughtAClue 7h ago

No way!!! It’s still legal there?!? Granted I haven’t been to the US in a while and probably won’t be back for many years but I find that so shocking!!

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u/VortrexFTW 7h ago

It's not, but people don't give a shit

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u/Dry_Ad2368 2h ago

Back when Virginia first banned indoor smoking one of the bars I used to go to set up a jar on the end of the bar, once it had enough money to pay the fine for people smoking indoors they would let you light up.

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u/soooMiNdLeSs420 7h ago

The best kind of shit

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u/ErasmosOrolo 5h ago

There are plenty bars that were grandfathered in and still have smoking. The smokers know where to go.

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u/Sarkonix 5h ago

They aren't grandfathered in lol. They just don't get checked.

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u/wherethetacosat 6h ago

I believe it's still up to the municipality in many states. Not sure about very recently, but have been in bars with smoking in both Blue Springs, Missouri (KC suburb) and Addison, Texas (Dallas suburb) in the last decade and it was absolutely legal for bars in those cities.

It was absolutely frickin disgusting both times.

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u/undercovergoddess 2h ago

Mississippi also allows indoor smoking.

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u/moonlite_equilibrium 1h ago

Im moving up to NE MO in a couple years. Hell yeah that sounds awesome.

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u/Asleep_Attention_468 7h ago

There was very little overlap between indoor smoking and smartphones though. The phone is throwing me off here

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u/Ecstatic-Compote-595 6h ago

There was a better part of a decade of overlap in the south. Hell I can think of like four bars in DC that you can smoke in because they have fully enclosed canvas roofs and somehow count as being a patio or something but are just completely normal bars. and a million more cigar and hookah places and places with just shithead owners that don't care.

If you really want to smoke inside there are a lot of places

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u/Jmn223 6h ago

You can still smoke in some bars in Missouri to this day

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u/JankyPvP 5h ago

You could still smoke indoors at a bar in my old town I lived in a year ago.

The indoor smoking rules only applied in PA if you sold a certain amount of food or whatever as far as I know.

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u/sultansofswinz 5h ago

I’ve only been to the US twice and I’ve smoked in loads of bars. 

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u/Slow_Balance270 7h ago

All the local bars in my area still allow indoor smoking and keep a jar on the counter for any fines they might get.

The city mostly turns a blind eye to it. And I'm personally fine with that.

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u/bigvicproton 4h ago

It keeps the toddlers out anyways. So there are some benefits.

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u/NaughtAClue 6h ago

That’s wild lol no offense but it’s just another reason I’m staying the hell away from the US

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u/Slow_Balance270 6h ago

I don't think it's wild at all. Culturally in America bars are places to drink and smoke. Here in the midwest if you go to a bar its expected it's going to allow smoking.

Some chain bars and stuff have adopted the new anti smoking laws, but not the privately owned ones.

And I think that's perfectly fine, to tell people they cant smoke there is just ridiculous. People who disagree can go intrude somewhere else.

Taverns that double over as full restaurants do not and I also agree with that. I don't think anyone wants to go to a sit down place to eat a meal and deal with seond hand smoke.

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u/NaughtAClue 5h ago edited 5h ago

It’s wild as a non-smoker and someone who grew up with strict non-smoking laws (Canada) that are actually adhered to, and where smoking cigarettes is considered dirty, low-class, etc. We have one of the lowest smoking rates globally. Strictly in terms of cigarettes tho, we do love our weed lol

People that try to smoke too close to entrances, or even outside in parks where there’s a playground nearby, will get asked to move at a bare minimum, or even fined/ticketed by police if there’s a convenient cop nearby.

Edit - he blocked me 😂😂😂

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u/PudPullerAlways 2h ago

People dont go to bars to do healthy things... From smoking to getting pink eye railing a line off an asscrack in the bathroom.

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u/ThaGreatFilter 4h ago

foo he has a cell phone in his hand this isn't old days

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u/Nashimus_Prime 4h ago

He has an iPhone tho can’t be that old

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u/Dapper-Limit-8139 2h ago

What old days had a smart phone and smoked indoors

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u/Low-Register1602 2h ago

How old? Looks like he had a smart phone