that old smoking thing again PLEASE VOTE. It's be nice to get Circa 500 votes

[tikay]

Wow Red, a life rich in stories, & an ability to write.  You are some lucky fella, & we are lucky to have you.

[jammer]

The 'cure' involved mixing about a pint of used sump oil (since found to cause cancer) with a pound of flowers of sulphur, (you cant buy it now, apparently it's used to make bombs) this mixture is rubbed all over the dog.

You know, that sounds like an excerpt from a description of when you dyed you're hair.

[ifm]

wouldn't you just love Bill Hicks to be alive just to read his posts in this thread?

[RED-DOG]

Bill Hicks has posts in this thread? I bet he would love to be alive to read them too

[ifm]

my grammar's bad

[AdamM]

tell her get well soon.

(In know it's been up before but it's still funny)

[Rod Paradise]

tell her get well soon.

(In know it's been up before but it's still funny)

Even I let that one go......

[lvlarc_uk]

I voted for ban on smoking I cant stand it!

Im the youngest of 6 and ALL my family smoke but me, so basically my lungs are wrecked too.

I read pages 1 - 4 and came across something about there used to be Cocaine on Coca Cola? WTF? If so how long ago was this and what was Coca Cola called before this?

Cheers

[lvlarc_uk]

Ok just read pages 5 - 9,

Adam I assure you petrol will easily go up with the drog of a cig or match, done it plenty of times with my mates ( when I was a kid )


RED-DOG, beautiful piece about the dog 

[Kaibobble]

I'm a smoker but still think it should be banned.

It can't be nice for a non smoker having to put up with siiting next to a smoker. I hate it when someone leaves a cig in the ashtray and it ends up blowing right in your face.

I'm always quite considerate and always ask the people next to me if they mind that I smoke. In which case one person said for medical reasons they couldn't be near cigarette smoke - so it was a good job I asked.

The other reason is that in a smoking cardroom I always end up smoking far too much and wake up with a horrid cough. You don't seem to smoke as much if you have to get up from what you are doing to smoke, again the reason I don't smoke in the house.

Although by banning smoking it causes the problem of people getting up constantly through out the game and passing out of turn giving other people an advantage at the table.

[Kaibobble]

Plus you end up with a bad smokers cough like my avatar (as Red Dog has pointed out in the past) 

[jammer]

I just realised that there is a distinction to be made here:

1) I am all for non-smoking card rooms.

2) I am all against a _ban_ on smoking in card rooms.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

[ifm]

I'm always quite considerate and always ask the people next to me if they mind that I smoke. In which case one person said for medical reasons they couldn't be near cigarette smoke - so it was a good job I asked.

What the hell are they doing in a smoking card room then?!!!
That should be on one of those cable shows, dumb and dumber or some such

[Aria]

I have never actually played at the Gala Notts but have observed and found it very smoky - can't imagine what my throat and lungs would feel like in the morning if I actually played and sat through hours of it. I am an ex-smoker and the more non-smoking places turning up the better but its a very selfish view as this means less temptation for me to scab a fag and start again. When we smoke we develop nicotine receptors in our brain and these add to the cravings we suffer when being deprived of a cigarette. Basically our body thinks it needs nicotine because of the receptors and triggers off cravings and hence thoughts of cigarettes. Over time of not smoking we manage to deal with cravings and the feelings subside - however the receptors never go! Therefore once a smoker always a smoker and it takes just one cigarette to wake these receptors again and you're back to £packs/day again.

Bring on the non-smoking tables - but provide designated smoking areas, better ventilation........personally a bigger card room at the Gala or a new casino offering these facilities.

Aria   

[Kaibobble]

What the hell are they doing in a smoking card room then?!!!
That should be on one of those cable shows, dumb and dumber or some such

Beats me??? He may have been lying but he was quite convincing. At least he was OK about it.

Unlike some guy the other week who was in the smoking area of the Grosvenor and freaked at me for smoking 2 feet behind him, and then followed to scream at my other half and threaten to take his ciggy out his mouth because he accused him of blowing it in his face (which wasn't true). Now this kind of reaction I can't be @ssed with, as he put him self in a smoking environment and then screamed about it. He then went to sit next to another woman who was smoking just to have a moan again.  >:? I mean what the hell is all that about?