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An unexpected drawback to the new laws against smoking is that the smokers are now congregating on the street. The reason this is a drawback is that you can find yourself innocently wandering along when you are suddenly enveloped by a fug of cigarette smoke. I actually thought a lot more people had started working the streets. Interest rates had gone up, people struggling with mortgages, and all of a sudden more people hanging around street corners. It seemed pretty obvious to me.