RTP-area local music and culture

[Doug Sutton <creeksidedls AT mindspring.com>]

Jeez, I do apologize for mentioning the ugly truth so early in the 
morning, before everyone has had their third cigarette.

Part of the problem is that smokers, by definition, don't know what its 
like to not smoke.  And while they usually don't think about it, the 
facts are that cigarettes are drugs, and most people smoke not because 
they like it, but because they can't stop.  And the cloud at the 506 
every night there are 50 people there IS poisonous.

I don't think smokers are bad people.  I have quite a few friends who 
smoke, and I love 'em all the same.  I'm happy for smokers to do their 
thing, in their own space, but why in crowded public places, where it's 
obnoxious and harmful.

James Hepler wrote:
> I don't get why we can't have a free exchange of ideas
> without knuckleheads chiming in  with hyperbolic,
> sensationalist crap.  
>