| 翻訳と辞書 |
Smokeasy
A smokeasy (also spelled smoke-easy or smokeeasy) is a business, especially a bar or drinking venue, which allows smoking despite a smoking ban enacted as a criminal law or an occupational safety and health regulation. The term is also used to describe locations and events promoted by tobacco companies to avoid or evade bans on smoking. The word was added to the ''New Oxford American Dictionary'' in 2005,〔"New Words," ''Chicago Tribune'', June 5, 2005.〕 although it was used as early as 1978.〔Melinda Beck, "No Smoking," ''Newsweek'', October 2, 1978〕〔(Wordspy: Smoke-easy )〕 It is a portmanteau of ''smoking'' and ''speakeasy''.
==Background==
Smoking bans have been pejoratively described as a type of sumptuary law, a law that attempts to regulate habits of consumption, like the prohibition of alcohol and drug prohibition.〔''Johns-Manville Sales Corp. v. International Ass'n of Machinists, Local Lodge 1609'', 621 F.2d 756, 760 (5th Cir. 1980)〕〔''People v. King'', 102 A.D.2d 710, 712 (N.Y. App. Div. 1st. Dept. 1984) (Carro, J., dissenting)〕〔John C. Fox, "An assessment of the current legal climate concerning smoking in the workplace," 13 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 591, 623-624 (1994)〕〔William de Wiveleslie Abney, ''Colour Vision'', p. 140 (Wood: 1895)〕〔Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, ''Principles of Political Economy'', p. 248 (New York, Holt: 1878)〕〔Herman F. Selvin, ''The University of California and California Law and Lawyers, 1920-1978'', transcript of interview by Anne Brower, p. 35 (1976 and 1978)〕〔"Summary," ''The American Architect'', Vol. XCII, No. 1650, p. 2 (Aug. 10, 1907)〕〔Harvey W. Wiley, in H.S. Gray, "The Boy and the Cigarette Habit," ''Education'', Vol. XXX, No. 5, p. 298 (Jan. 1909)〕〔Lewis Lapham, "Notebook: Social hygiene" ''Harper's Magazine'', July 1, 2003〕〔Barbara Amiel, "Good luck if you've got nasty underclass tastes," ''Maclean's'', September 10, 2007〕〔David Brooks, ''Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There'' (Simon & Schuster: 2000)〕 Such prohibitions tend to trigger underground economies.〔Stu Bykofsky, "'Smoke-easys' ignore the tobacco ban", ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', March 27, 2007〕〔Taras Grescoe, ''The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Search of Forbidden Fruit'' (Bloomsbury USA: 2005)〕〔("Smokers find refuge in secret nicotine dens" ), ''Seattlepi.com'', May 31, 2006〕〔"Cig-ban Scofflaws light up Ash-Toria," ''The New York Post'', May 8, 2006.〕 For, when a sector of the population is prohibited by law from consuming a certain good, or consuming a certain good in a certain way, inevitably, some will flout that prohibition and provide the good or the means of consuming the good in a black-market fashion.〔〔 Thus, just as prohibition in the United States led to the speakeasy (an establishment in which alcohol was sold in contravention of the law), so too have smoking bans led to the smokeasy.〔〔〔〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Smokeasy」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|