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  • From: James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Local 506 vs. Smoking
  • Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT)

Dipped in honey for MY pleasure!

--- Kevin Browning <specialvibe AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm going to a show with that guy and we're going to
> share a pack of Nat Sherman's.
>
> Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Doug Sutton wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Part of the problem is that smokers, by
> definition, don't know what
> > its
> > like to not smoke.
>
> Not true. Not only was I not born with a cigarette
> in my mouth, but I
> can go whole hours without one.
>
> > 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.
>
> How would you know this, non-smoker? Have you ever
> had a Nat Sherman?
> I happen to like it a lot. I like the smell, I like
> the shapes the
> smoke makes in the air, I like fact that it drives
> away people I
> don't want talking to me.
>
> > And the cloud at the 506
> > every night there are 50 people there IS
> poisonous.
>
> Probably true. Also, my water is poisonous here in
> Pittsboro, the
> poultry plant down the street smells like hell, and
> all of you people
> who drive cars to work every day (I don't) are
> poisoning my fucking
> air and killing my plants.
>
> >
> > I don't think smokers are bad people.
>
> Sure you do. The "some of my best friends are _____"
> locution is a
> dead giveaway.
>
> > I'm happy for smokers to do their
> > thing, in their own space,
>
> Which would be where? For instance, if there are ten
> smokers in a
> bar, and you walk in, is it your bar or their bar?
> And if you get
> drunk on the drug alcohol, you fiend, and act like
> an asshole, should
> I punch you? I do apologize for throwing down
> ethical questions
> before your third cup of coffee.
>
> > but why in crowded public places, where it's
> > obnoxious and harmful.
>
> What isn't a public place, in your view? And what's
> "crowded"? And if
> it's mostly smokers in the crowd, who wins?
>
> Having said all that, you know very well that
> smokers around here
> have been very accommodating to the new standard,
> and I don't know a
> smoker who much complains anymore about taking it
> outside, or into
> designated areas away from others. But name-calling
> and sanctimony
> make it harder to stick with that program, I have to
> say.
>
> Please let me know what shows you'll be attending so
> I can avoid them.
>
> d
>
>
>
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