Smirting
Topic: Social
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Smirting is the practice of smoking and flirting outside public places such as pubs, bars, cafés, restaurants, and office buildings where smoking is prohibited.[1][2][3][4]
History
Smirting was first identified in New York in 2003,[5][6] and spread to the Republic of Ireland in 2004 when an aggressive smoking ban in public places was enacted.[7]
Smirting has been so successful that non-smokers try to mingle with the smirters.[5] The non-smokers may then start to smoke too and so this is a health risk.[8]
Sociologist and sexologist Pepper Schwartz states that the smirters are "defiant and angry, they don't buy the second-hand smoke argument, and want to share this grudge with someone else." When they are forced outside, smirters form strong bonds in what is essentially an exile community.[9] But this exile community has its rewards. One study found that 25% of Irish couples who had started a relationship during 2007 or 2008 had met while smoking outside.[5]
References
- ↑ Hughes, Sarah (2005-10-30). "Smoking ban lights up love life". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/30/smoking.sarahhughes. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "Welcome to the practice of smirting (smoking and flirting), a craze which has swept Ireland since the introduction of the pub and restaurant smoking ban in January 2004."
- ↑ Griffin, Jon (2009-04-03). "Love is in the smoke air". Birmingham Mail. http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/04/03/love-is-in-the-smoke-air-97319-23300256/. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "The spectre on our doorsteps is smirting – flirting for smokers."
- ↑ Henley, Peter (2005-03-11). "Smirting". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4332011.stm. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "They call it smirting. Like flirting, but more likely to succeed. [...] The Irish Government's ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants has forced smokers in the capital out on to the pavement."
- ↑ Patience, Martin (2004-04-25). "Dating scene wafts to sidewalks; Exiled smokers congregate and let the sparks fly". Chicago Tribune. https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/623419001.html?dids=623419001:623419001&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Apr+25%2C+2004&author=Martin+Patience%2C+Columbia+News+Service&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Dating+scene+wafts+to+sidewalks+%3B+Exiled+smokers+congregate+and+let+the+sparks+fly&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "But the smirting scene presents the perils of any dating forum: unwanted attention."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Soames, Gemma (2007-08-12). "Smoke signals - Forget clubs and bars – the best place to pull is out on the street, hanging with the smokers. Our correspondent discovers the art of smirting". The Times. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article2215960.ece. "First identified in Ireland – one study found that a quarter of Irish couples who got together over the past two years had met while smoking alfresco"
- ↑ Chevron, Doris (2005) (in German). New York. Marco Polo Reiseführer. Mair Dumont Marco Polo. p. 14. ISBN 3-8297-0159-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=s2wgJ9He3EkC&q=smirting&pg=PA14. Retrieved 2009-04-18. "... ihres Bürgermeisters Michael Bloomberg, nehmen die New Yorker es jetzt gelassen und üben sich in smirting - dem Smoke-Flirt beim Rauchen vor der Tür."
- ↑ McCann, Nuala (2007-05-01). "Romance blossoms at pub doors". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6611771.stm. "Smirting took off in the Republic of Ireland in the aftermath of its smoking ban in 2004."
- ↑ Katie Evans. The art of smirting. BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/content/articles/2007/09/12/smirting_evans_feature.shtml.
- ↑ Patience, Martin (2004-04-18). "Outcast 'smirters' have a new way to find light of their lives". San Diego Union-Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040418/news_lz1c18smoker.html. "A new term has appeared among daters to describe the outdoors smoking and flirting phenomenon: Smirting."
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