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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Local 506 vs. Smoking
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:32:12 -0400

If you want danger, have you considered 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year in your local National Guard? I hear smokes are cheap at the PX ;-)

I don't even think it's the hardcore pack-a-day smokers like Hepler who are the primary problem, it's the freaking "I only smoke when I go to bars" smokers who don't even inhale, they just light the fucking thing and then hold it at arm's length & periodically practice their ash-flicking skills. There are probably 2 of them for every 1 Hepler.

And the hardcore smokers are used to being forced to go stand in the rain to smoke, because they've been doing it at work for years now. The fashion smokers haven't had the opportunity to be trained . . .

Hey Dave, how about we nonsmokers cede the Irish Pubs to you & your smoking posse? I'd happily let you have the James Joyce and The Bull McCabe's forever & ever amen. I hear the Joyce is even having bands now & then nowadays . . .

David Bartholomew wrote:
I have to say...I don't find the smell factor to be a convincing reason at
all. Clear the smoke and the 506 is still going to smell like beer, sweat,
and piss. The health factors on the other hand are pretty straight forward.

So..if you are going to do it for health reasons, you pretty much have to
ban smoking, not limit it to the bar. I can't imagine that passing through
that small space for drinks, bathroom use, and enter/exit can be much
better for your lungs/heart.

As a smoker, it is a bit sad to see all of these places go non-smoking.
Where's the danger? Can't we have a rock club too? Can't the non-smokers
stay home? If you can't smoke at the 506 at 1 am on a Friday night than
where can you smoke FFS?

There certainly are reasons to stay a smoking club and all of you
non-smokers know what you risk upon entry. Regardless, it is going to happen
sooner or later anyways (even in NC) and it probably does make business
sense. Maybe James and I should just finally quit.

D


On 8/22/07, Lisa Bachelder <lisa AT fuzzsonic.com> wrote:
Finally. Baking AND rock. My dream job.

<sigh>

lb

grady wrote:
But what if Glenn installed a little oven and just actually *baked*
cookies on & off throughout the evening? How many of y'all would be
irresistibly drawn to spend $1 on a piping-hot chocolate-chip cookie at
1:00 a.m.?

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