Martyrs to Culture (or just smokers)

After my book event tonight we returned to our hotel on the Left Bank, wandering through streets alive with diners and drinkers - on the pavements! The temperature was close to freezing, but these hardy souls were outside, under canopies, and huddled around heat lamps, eating al fresco. Café culture, it seems, continues in Paris, regardless of the season. But somehow, I think, were smoking still allowed indoors, that's where they'd be.