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[Jennifer Maurer]

On 3/15/06, Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I still believe that if you don't want to be around smokers then
> you shouldn't go to places where you *know* that people are smoking.
> Sure sucks if its someplace you really want to go but no one ever said
> life is fair. If you really can't accept that risk then either change
> the law (not that anyone on this list can generally be bothered) or
> start your own place that is smoke free (not that anyone on this list
> generally can be bothered). I can't even imagine what any of you would
> have to say about hooka bars.

For what it's worth Chris, I completely agree with you.  If you want
to campaign to make cigarettes illegal, go ahead and do so.  I don't
care; I don't even smoke.  It's a nasty habit and it's not very good
for you.  But, until then, I think treating smokers like second class
citizens who should be shunned and forced out of our precious bars and
clubs is ridiculous.

No one has made a convincing case that (with the exception of people
with extreme respiratory problems or alleriges) incidental smoke that
you're exposed to for three or four hours on a Saturday night is
anything more than a slight inconvenience.  Deal with it.

Or don't.  There have been a couple of places that had such bad
ventilation that once more than one person lit a cigarette it burned
my eyes and I couldn't cope.  So, I stopped going there.  And
sometimes it sucked because my friends would go there and I felt like
I couldn't.  But I certainly didn't start going around asking the
smokers to take it outside just because I, personally, found their
smoking bothersome.

Honestly.

I'm going to resume my upstanding record of staying out of these
wankfests, I just wanted to lend Rapier my support.

-Jen