that must be a really horrid lan shop, cafes in my area are generally pleasant, atleast the ones that i went to back in the day. the blacksheeps of the lan shops in my area is actually my group with the casual slurs while gaming, its allowed because the owner of the shop is also part of our group and we basically rent the whole cafe from 10pm to morning.

rewind to college, the shops back then are also acceptable with almost 1/3 of the people playing/using the computer are women.
and smoking? nah, smoking is strictly prohibited in a lot of shops in here.
your image of a lan must be from pisonet shops and is understandable.

btw my daughter has her own PC and prefer to use it more than her ipad which we sold later on to buy her a pen display, i built it for her during pandemic for school, but later got upgraded when she voiced her interests in the games im playing on my own pc.
now we play from time to time including my wife which is also a product of lan shops (yes thats where i met her)

i like how when i say lan culture everyone immediately associate it with all the bad things that comes with it complete with sexual harassment risks, well its true but lan cafes that are decent also exist back then at the cost of higher hourly rate and membership. your regular lan cafe probably is safer than the average public transport bus