Smirting

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title: "Smirting" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sexuality-and-society", "intimate-relationships", "smoking"] description: "Smoking outside of non-smoking areas" topic_path: "general/sexuality-and-society" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smirting" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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| last = Hughes | first = Sarah | title = Smoking ban lights up love life | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/30/smoking.sarahhughes | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | date = 2005-10-30 | work = The Guardian | quote = 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.}}{{cite news | last = Griffin | first = Jon | title = Love is in the smoke air | url = http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/04/03/love-is-in-the-smoke-air-97319-23300256/ | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | date = 2009-04-03 | publisher = Birmingham Mail | quote = The spectre on our doorsteps is smirting – flirting for smokers.}}{{cite news | last = Henley | first = Peter | title = Smirting | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4332011.stm | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | date = 2005-03-11 | publisher = BBC | quote = 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. }}{{cite news | last = Patience | first = Martin | title = Dating scene wafts to sidewalks; Exiled smokers congregate and let the sparks fly | url = 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 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090421221534/http://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 | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 21, 2009 | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | date = 2004-04-25 | publisher = Chicago Tribune | quote = But the smirting scene presents the perils of any dating forum: unwanted attention.}}

History

Smirting was first identified in New York in 2003,{{cite book | last = Chevron | first = Doris | title = New York. Marco Polo Reiseführer | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s2wgJ9He3EkC&q=smirting&pg=PA14 | accessdate = 2009-04-18 | year = 2005 | publisher = Mair Dumont Marco Polo | language = German | isbn = 3-8297-0159-4 | page = 14 | quote = ... ihres Bürgermeisters Michael Bloomberg, nehmen die New Yorker es jetzt gelassen und üben sich in smirting - dem Smoke-Flirt beim Rauchen vor der Tür.}} and spread to the Republic of Ireland in 2004 when an aggressive smoking ban in public places was enacted.{{cite news | last = McCann | first = Nuala | title = Romance blossoms at pub doors | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6611771.stm | date = 2007-05-01 | publisher = BBC | quote = Smirting took off in the Republic of Ireland in the aftermath of its smoking ban in 2004. }}

Smirting has been so successful that non-smokers try to mingle with the smirters.{{cite news | last = Soames | first = Gemma | title = 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 | url = http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article2215960.ece | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081011225635/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article2215960.ece | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 11, 2008 | date = 2007-08-12 | work = The Times | quote = 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}} The non-smokers may then start to smoke too and so this is a health risk.

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.{{cite news | last = Patience | first = Martin | title = Outcast 'smirters' have a new way to find light of their lives | url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040418/news_lz1c18smoker.html | date = 2004-04-18 | publisher = San Diego Union-Tribune | quote = A new term has appeared among daters to describe the outdoors smoking and flirting phenomenon: Smirting.}} 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.

References

References

  1. Katie Evans. "The art of smirting". BBC.

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