Please just be as happy as you can and go smoke.
Thanks ever so much.

Beatles not famous or iconic enough for you? … or do you wish for posters simply to put ‘l agree’ or ‘l disagree’ to OP?

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Oh and Spartan I missed no points. I simply wrote a response to your comment :)
You keep mixing points of contention (famous people smoking and being able to smoke everywhere you wish). They really do not have that much to do with each other. The famous person smoking was the crux of Kpriss’ blog entry ( in this case the biographical film of Coco Chanel). You have taken this topic and turned into a platform where the non smokers are right wingish evil despots and the smokers are the long suffering pariahs (cue the Battle Hymn Republic) who speak for truth and freedom (right). Nothing is ever that black and white.
You talk of smoking restaurants . There are none in Toronto anymore. I am ever so glad that they gone. It makes for an extremely pleasant dining experience and this is also coming from people I know who do smoke.
Here is a solution open a smoker’s club! I am sure that you will find some patrons.
Oh and in closing did you ever see that episode of “Seinfeld” where Kramer decided to have a smoker’s club in his apartment?
That ended badly and hilariously!

Smoke till your heart’s content, drink all the JD you can and eat all the red meat and no vegetables! Live your life! :)

A beintot!

lt’s all a matter of freedom of choice. You can still enter a smokers venue if you so wish but there will be smokers.l can enter a non-smoking venue but cannot smoke. Simples! it’s a decision we make … not the State.

No-one is romanticising historical figures that smoke but to attempt to change history is wrong.

The one l very much object to is the photoshopping of the Beatles Abbey Road album cover. McCartney holding the cigarette in his right hand made rise to a belief that McCartney had died as he is left handed.This was given credence by the fact that he was bare-footed as well.

To remove the cigarette is nothing but puritanically based vandalism.

You have to be responsible to yourself but you also have to remember that you are not the only one living in society and often what we do and do not do has a cause and effect on others, for better or for worse. No man is an island, to use an old aphorism, but it still rings true.
As for historical figures smoking, they did so yes but I do not romanticize it. It is not what I remember about them, and I am sure if polled others would say the same. The fact that they did dose not make them great or memorable to the public,it is what they did that does.
As for the Rumpole of the Bailey guy taking up smoking in protest, to that I say… Whiz Ding, huzzah for him. Your stance is just as a sanctimonious as the non smokers whom you rail against.
Have fun what ever you decide to do.
Pax.

The basic difference between the self-appointed high priests and followers of the new religion of non-smoking and those outcasts of society (smokers) is that the almost fanatical non-smokers feel it is their duty to constantly berate/intimidate/humilate the smokers to become on of them.

Whereas smokers do not try to enforce their personal choice upon others … ie. adding cigarettes to images of historical figures who did not smoke!

Yet we have the situation where smokers are not allowed in pubs, restaurants etc because of regulations based on the belief of passive smoking etc. l won’t go into the validity of passive smoking or other statistics because in reality that is not the issue.

The issue is, why cannot people be allowed to have their own choice? Why can’t we have rooms and the like for smoking? The staff and customers would know it is a smoking establishment so where is the problem? Also, take into account that modern equipment can make the air cleaner than any other place you care to choose that has no such equipment.

John Mortimer QC and writer (Rumpole of the Bailey) took up smoking again in his 80’s even though he didn’t particularly enjoy it but because of the non-smoking regs which he saw as part of the continual loss of freedoms instigated by this present government.

Indeed he quoted “There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.”.

Now alcohol is on the list of all these experts who want to curtail our choices and way of life … as indeed is food.

As such … l am damned … l love Jack Daniels, smoking and eating food that is now deemed unhealthy. Maybe l shan’t live to an old age but on my tombstone it won’t say ‘I Died’ it shall say ‘I Lived!’

p.s. as for the drugs issue, write to me at globalcasinogaming@yahoo.com (damn, another vice l’m in … gaming!) … would love discussing it and to hear from you.