Get Used to It, Cellphone Chatters–You’re the New Smokers

The backlash is slowly building. The public disapproval is getting more vocal. Governments are starting to step in, imposing regulation and segregation. Soon the targeted demographic will be pushed out of public spaces, quarantined in restricted areas with others of their kind who insist on keeping up their disgusting habit. Freedoms taken for granted will be constrained. All this because of the outcry over second-hand conversation. We need only to look across the pond for fresh evidence that the tide is turning against those who hold their private phone calls in the middle of a crowd, especially a crowd confined on public transportation.

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