Hey... don't go reading YOUR adjenda into MY posts...

My post about me not being an addict is NOT a 'classic example'... it's the truth... -I- chose when and where I smoke... If I'm in someones house (most likely even if they smoke as well) I most often do not smoke... If I'm in a pub where smoking is allowed, having a few pints with mates over a few games of darts, I likely WILL smoke... I'n MY car or anyone elses, I don't smoke... Out for a walk, on a cold clear winters night, I will smoke...

But -MY- smoking is NOT the issue here... and how it got to be is beyond me...

DtG... so you lobbied and lost... It happens... Read what I said above about asking... sometimes the answer is gonna be NO... Life sucks... get a helemt... But you did all that you could do eh... You tried... it just so happens that you failed... you could try again and again and again util you 'get your way' or you could suck it up like an adult and go somewhere else... find something else to do....

That's an issue for your own consience... And I would NOT presume to offer advice on matters of consience... Except to say you gotta do what you think is right...

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"she always asserted that links between smoking and cancer, heart problems, respiratory deseases etc had never been proven. I'm sure she'd have still been saying this, if she hadn't died some years ago - of cancer."

Some experts will say she was right... some will say she wasn't... The trick I guess lays in proving that she wouldn't have died of cancer if she hadn'ta smoked... a hard case to make... I've known smokers who've lived to be a million... and I've know heath-junkies who've dropped dead at 28....

Sure... common sense would probably say that sucking lungfulls of smoke is probably really bad for you... But since when has common sense had anything to do with science? Look at the 'Meat Puppets' duped by the "common sense" of the Atkins Diet?

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"My honest advice to a folk club is absolutely don't allow smoking"

Here here... Like I keep asking and no one will answer... Are you going for the music or to smoke?