Rep. Jennifer Weiss recalled the days of the smoke-filled backroom.
And front room. And committee room. And hallway.
Speaking about the proposed smoking ban on the floor today, the Cary Democrat recalled her time as a freshman legislator nine years ago, when the General Assembly allowed smoking throughout the building.
"I returned home from my first day of work smelling like I had been out bar hopping," she said.
She said that it was ironic that she was serving on a stroke and heart-disease prevention task force at the time which was pushing smokers to quit.
Weiss then related that a local waiter had told her he couldn't wait for the ban to pass so that he could go to work without second-hand smoke.
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