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Not Smoking is SO last year.

New York City- Many New York smokers have been complaining how many local restaurants and bars have strictly banned smoking. One new yorker stated:

" I cant even take my girlfriend out to eat at her favorite restaurant anymore; since it clearly states on the door"NO SMOKERS ALLOWED." Were being segregated from the rest of the population; whats next? Smokers and non smokers are going to have to use different bathrooms and water fountains?We're not in the 1950's anymore."

A group of angry smokers have formed an organization called G.O.A.T.S (Group Of Angry Tobacco Smokers). They have thought up of ways in which they can co-exist amongst the non-smoking community.

They have created a product called SmokeBalls™ which look like giant human bubbles in which they can smoke as many cigarettes as they please without breaking the law. The inventor of SmokeBalls™,Susie Griffin, said today:

" The idea came to me when I was watching, "The Boy In The Plastic Bubble." It seemed so much fun to live inside one of those bubbles that I said, hey why not make it possible! And besides I've always been a huge fan of John Travolta."

The city liked the idea of having SmokeBalls™ so much , rumor has it that new SmokeBalls™ routes will be added to city streets so transportation could be made easier for SmokeBalls™ owners.

SmokeBalls™ isn't the only trend amongst New Yorkers; many of them have been trying to fashionably quit the bad habit. They have been trying so hard that they came up with a way of making quitting look "cool." Many drugstores are now selling multi-colored, scratch-n-sniff Nicotine patches that have written sayings such as "You can do it!" or "Smokers are Jokers." This product has sold over a million in only the past month, and has become the talk of the town.

These trends are helping smokers pull through the new laws that are being set against them, but they say that if all fails they can just switch to being alcoholics instead of Nicotine addicts. That's the beauty of addiction, there's always an alternative!