In news:4sc8e2Fv0dkpU1@mid.individual.net Mike O'Sullivan
wrote:
> David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
> deansgate wrote:
>>
>>> One thing that stills gets me is the smoker lingering in the
>>> doorway. Plenty of that still going on.
>>
>> Some US states have laws which ban smoking within a certain distance
>> of an entrance. It seems to work there IME.
>
> I've read about this. How do they cope with smoking pedestrians just
> passing by their front door I wonder!
Instead of wasting their time and money on video surveillance like the
Brits, American cities implement a network of sophisticated smoker
detectors.
Homing in on the pinpoint heat source of a cigarette and the telltale
chemicals in cigarette smoke, central control can dispatch an armed
squad to catch the transgressor, no matter how fast he's walking.
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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com |