Eugene’s Draconian Smoking Ordinance Strikes Again
The back deck of Espresso Roma, a favorite haunt of UO riff-raff and one of the last true smoking dens in Eugene, is now a no-smoking area thanks to the city’s asinine smoking ordinance. (You may remember when the city fined the Horsehead Bar and Grill for its offending row of shrubbery.)
After walking out on the back deck and seeing the multitude of no smoking signs, I managed to get the story out of one of the employees through my rudimentary Spanish:
“Hey, guey, por que no fumar?”
“Porque la ciudad.”
“iPinche ciudad!”
