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

[AdamM]

coke in coke - true
speed in pet food - urban myth.

a great deal of support is being offered to smokers who want to give up an rightly so. as you say, it is a drug addiction and smokers desreve support TO GIVE UP. smokers determined to keep smoking desrve no such consideration

any way, thats kind of off the path. we're specifically talking about smoking in poker rooms

[Nem]

coke in coke - true
speed in pet food - urban myth.

a great deal of support is being offered to smoker who want to give up an rightly so. as you say, it is a drug addiction and smokers desreve support TO GIVE UP. smoker determined to keep smoking desrve no such consideration

 

[Harry Demetriou]

coke in coke - true
speed in pet food - urban myth.

a great deal of support is being offered to smoker who want to give up an rightly so. as you say, it is a drug addiction and smokers desreve support TO GIVE UP. smoker determined to keep smoking desrve no such consideration

I consider myself lucky as I managed to escape and better late than never.

As for pet food...try changing your pets brand.....until they get hungry it will take a couple of days before they start eating the new brand through necessity.

If you want a list of "Extremely Bad For You" and "Addictive" additives placed in human food a simple search on the internet will yield you masses of information.

Fortunately Europe has tighter controls than the USA but there is a VERY long way to go before I would consider feeding most foods to any kids.

[Royal Flush]

The subject of smoking and non-smoking parts of the same tournament....

Here is a quite from Daniel Negreanu from the 2003 WPT in the ACF


When I arrived, I had to choose my table draw, smoking or non. (They offered each player a choice before he drew his seat: a nonsmoking table or a smoking table.) Hmm … I absolutely hate smoke, but the majority of the local players there are in fact smokers, and I knew that many of the pros who traveled to the event were not. I thought to myself, I’ll outsmart them all by taking a smoking table to start, and avoid the other pros! I’d just have to suck it up and deal with the smoke so that I could enhance my chances of winning the tournament. Well, so much for that idea. I looked around at the smoking tables and noticed that all of the American nonsmoking pros were seated at them! The nonsmoking table looked like it was full of novice players.


Classic i thought!

[Harry Demetriou]

speed in pet food - urban myth.

PS Speed belongs to the Amphetamines class of drugs and yes this is of the track and smokers deserve a LOT more support in givng up than what is currently on offer.

[redsimon]

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp

[M POWER]

I know smoking does Kill, so I only smoke Malborough Lights, that way I should be OK. 

And I voted to ban smoking in card rooms. Nottingham is a problem because Managers
go there for a crafty one because they can no longer smoke in the pit. It is not hard to stop
the smoking in card rooms. Take away the Ash trays and put signs up saying NO SMOKING.
It will work from day 1

Regards

M

[Karabiner]

I am a smoker (cigar) but find the smoky atmosphere in Notts Gala cardroom almost unbearable when it is full.

I unhesitatingly voted for no smoking in the card room.


Once I took an internal Spanish flight from Madrid to Malaga. It was a small plane with two seats on each side of the aisle.

A s we got to the top of the mobile staircase and were boarding the plane the Spanish steward said

"Smoking on the left, non smoking on the right" Needless to say it didn't help, amused us though.

[AdamM]

Harry, for someone who's posts are normally so insightful all of your posts so far seem to be missing the point. I happen to disagree that there's insufficient support for people who are trying to give up smoking. If you cannont afford the patches you can go and see your GP and he/she will happily write you a perscription. there's helplines and literature, websites and billboards. At the end of the day it's down to individual will power.

All of this has NO baring on whether or not smoking should be allowed in the card room. Sadly it looks like the new legislation will have the 'private members club' saver in place so there's no immediate legal support for those of us in favour of a ban. the reason I've put this poll up again is that I want to write a leeter to Notts Galas GM and I want to include the results.

I'm soory, Im a bit hazy on my amphetemine / barbituate / opiate catagorising. I still say it's an urban myth that pedigree pet food resort to drugging the food to make animals prefer it. maybe it's just better stuff  

[Royal Flush]

The idea of smoking on a plane just drives me mad!!

Would you smoke in a petrol station?

[RED-DOG]

The idea of smoking on a plane just drives me mad!!

Would you smoke in a petrol station?

No, but I wouldn't fly in one either

[Royal Flush]

The greatest danger to an aircraft is fire, to alow people to bring cigs/matches/lighters on is just asking for a disaster.

[patman]

i`m against smoking and am proud that scotland has decided to go as far as it did in banning it in public places...the deal in england wiil i am sure in future years seem to be the sell out that it is to the tobacco and breweries.

in card rooms i prefer not smoking. my first visit to a card room was marred only by the smoke doing my eyes and head in and would put me of if it continued like that.

[Harry Demetriou]

The idea of smoking on a plane just drives me mad!!

Would you smoke in a petrol station?

They DEFINITELY DO in The USA

[Royal Flush]

lol yeah it amazed me in the US to see them smoking in a petrol station. They didn't seem to think it was a danger!

Thankfully they don't on planes anymore!