Story 5 - No Smoking Allowed
No Smoking Allowed
You are not allowed to smoke in restaurants anymore.
It is illegal to smoke in restaurants and other public spaces.
You are not permitted to smoke even in outdoor restaurants.
I am having lunch at an outdoor restaurant with my young son.
He is two years old.
There is a man smoking a cigarette at a table in the restaurant.
I can smell the cigarette smoke.
It smells terrible.
Cigarette smoke is not good for your health.
My son begins to cry because of the cigarette smoke.
I ask the man not to smoke.
I tell him it is illegal.
I tell him the smoke is bothering me and my son.
He says my son crying is bothering him.
He tells me he will stop smoking if my son stops crying.
What should I do?
No Smoking Allowed
You are not allowed to smoke in restaurants anymore.
It is illegal to smoke in restaurants and other public spaces.
You are not permitted to smoke even in outdoor restaurants.
I was having lunch at an outdoor restaurant with my young son.
He was two years old.
There was a man smoking a cigarette at a table in the restaurant.
I could smell the cigarette smoke.
It smelled terrible.
Cigarette smoke is not good for your health.
My son began to cry because of the cigarette smoke.
I asked the man not to smoke.
I told him it was illegal.
I told him the smoke was bothering me and my son.
He said my son crying was bothering him.
He told me he would stop smoking if my son stopped crying.
What should I have done?
No Smoking Allowed: Questions
Q: Are you allowed to smoke in restaurants today?
A: No, you are not allowed to smoke in restaurants anymore.
Q: Where was the speaker in the story?
A: He was having lunch at an outdoor restaurant.
Q: How old was his son?
A: His son was two years old.
Q: What was the other man doing at the restaurant?
A: The other man was smoking a cigarette.
Q: How did the cigarette smoke smell?
A: It smelled terrible.
Q: What did his son begin to do?
A: His son began to cry.
Q: What did the father do?
A: He asked the man not to smoke.
Q: Did the man stop smoking?
A: No, he didn’t. He said he would stop smoking if the boy stopped crying.
Q: What would YOU have done in this situation?