His Mayorness, Francis Slay, announced yesterday that Lambert Airport is going 100% smoke free starting on January 2nd, 2011. The move conicides with the earlier removal of major airline hubs, any semblance of security, and decent flights that don’t involve  you going the wrong direction for 6 hours to get to a real airport to make your connecting flight.

[T]he city will close — and eventually tear down — the five airport smoking lounges on Jan. 2, the day most public places in the city must go smoke-free.

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This has little to do with anything other than it popped up on one of our random internet searches tonight for “St. Louis”: It’s a dude, shirtless, smoking some cigar with the name of St. Louis, on his couch. Five minutes long. Not a word.

Oh and he’s made nearly 2,000 more videos, just like this one!

We have no freaking clue what the point of any of this (pretty sure its probably a “sexy to someone” kinda deal)…but we felt like it was worth sharing.

(Video after the jump which we aren’t guessing you’re going to click through to see it, so we also include a photo of Natalie Portman making out with Jessica Alba while Darth Maul and the Easter Bunny have a lightsaber battle in the background.)

The Mayor of St. Peters saw some guy spit chewing tobacco on the sidewalk in front of city hall and it started his quest to ban the spitting of tobacco juice. That quest ended last Thursday.

If you live or work in the city of St. Peters and you’re out in public – no more spitting tobacco juice on the ground.

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In yet another “me too” political action, another St. Louis area is moving to ban smoking.

City leaders could ban smoking in Lake St. Louis.

The aldermen could vote on a proposed ban this evening.

If a ban passes, Lake St. Louis would be the first city in St. Charles County to be smoke free.

Well there’s something to hang your hat on.  No more smoking in all the fine Lake St. Louis establishments like…Schnucks…or…um….Denny’s.  Wait a minute I see what’s going on here…there isn’t any real need to ban smoking in Lake St. Louis!  This must all be a distraction to what they are really banning!  We did a little research and if you actually really the whole ban you can see what’s really going down out there somewhere in the haze of look-a-like homes known as “West of 270 County”:

1. FourSquare officially launched in St. Louis! (We told you…just sayin.)
2. Pujols freaked out the Cardinals with his comments on some crazy Dominican radio station.
3. The RFT took an idea off the table for us by exploring the W00t! offices.
4. Metro Link gives up and ask the rest of us for ideas.  Can’t get any worse I guess.
5. Bowling allies are freaking out about the smoking bans.  They think if we take away the smoke smell, the BO smell will get lonely.

Tuesday night, while everyone was watching the National League lose for the 13th year in a row, Clayton’s government was at work banning smoking in all public places.

…kinda.  You can smoke inside, if you operate a cigar bar or tobacco shop, or are in one of the 20% of hotel rooms that can still allow it, and of course patios.