We cannot upgrade your 60A fuse to 100A unless the tails are 25mm

Uh, don't go where? To the grocery store? To the post office? To work, or the beach, or ANYWHERE? It is interesting. You go to the store, and check the wind. The smokers always seem to congregate upwind of the doors!

Charlie

We have a bar/restaurant right across the park from me. The bar and restaurant are separated by a glass wall! Maybe that's why is works... glass doesn't pass smoke too well... although thinking of when I smoked a pipe it coated the windshield pretty badly ;-)

...Jim Thompson

And reduce California's wildfires.

And reduce the accident rate. I remember reading somewhere that a surprisingly high proportion of people are smoking at the moment they're involved in a crash. It was a neuroscientist who was investigating whether nicotine impaired people's coordination. More likely, it was simply a matter of not having both hands on the wheel.

Best Western, Champaign IL (around the corner from where my mother lives). When I checked a week or two ago it was $53 for smoking and $76 non. Amazingly, the prices were the same for mid-July and late August/early September.

Usually. Though they tried stuffing us in a smoking room in Columbus on the way back last time (Dec 30th). Dunno why, the whole place was empty.

I've heard of $5K, for a complete repainting and curtains. I certainly have no problem with such things. ...as long as it's disclosed (and I have seen it). The room rental agreement is a contract, after all.

There simple isn't any. Because you can smell it, doesn't mean it'll kill you.

Please show me where second-hand smoke is a killer no matter how good the ventilation is. If you believe this crap, why don't you simply not enter such a dangerous place? You _do_ have that choice, just like you have the choice of not being offended.

Anti-"gauntlet" rules are gradually being put into place. The University of Georgia has just adopted a policy that smokers cannot congregate where people normally entering or exiting a building have to "run the gauntlet." This has to trickle down into the specific smoking policies for the individual buildings, so it's going to take a little while to implement.

I think in the background of this is a cultural issue nobody has mentioned. Fifty years ago, smokers were treated as *superior*. They had the right to force everyone to breathe smoky air. Anyone objecting was considered unreasonable and eccentric. I gather this attitude started when smoking was a sign of wealth, and then was carefully orchestrated by the tobacco industry. My generation took as much of it as we could stand, and we revolted. ¡Viva la revolución!

I was amazed watching the "making of" DVD for Cirqe du Soleil shows that

It is. You've stated so much here. It offends your dainty nose. ...and from a "conservative", no less.

See above.

Some clowns find it harder to quit than others.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

One would have thunk. Apparently there are other things at work in this case. Maybe they can't give the things away (found a hotel across town cheaper, though haven't booked yet).

I'm told that it is very common for professional dancers to smoke. They think it keeps them thin.

Nope, I caught you in a lie (or a "senior moment") and now you try to weasel out of it. Sheesh, Yanik, I thought you were a conservative. You're no less whiny than any other snot-nosed leftist weenie!

Yes... It may be that with the rapid drop in the number of people smoking, they have an oversupply of smoking rooms.

dangerous.

high-profile

Changing the conditions midstream is an indicator of a weak argument.

Begging the question.

Not responsive.

I have no idea what you are talking about. I have made no statements that were intended to reference Mr. Yanik.

As for being "conservative", the meaning of that word has changed a lot in my lifetime. Please give 3-5 qualites that you think a "conservative" would support, and I'll let you know with which of those I agree.

Kinda like cell phones, huh?

I'd like to challenge some antismokerist to the "garage test": you sit in your garage with all of the doors and windows closed, and start your car. I'll sit in my garage with all of the doors and windows closed, and start to smoke. Then, we see who dies first. >;->

Cheers! Rich

I think phoning while driving (with a handheld phone) is reckless driving and should be prosecuted as such.

What would that prove? Not that cigarettes are harmless, only that they are smaller than cars, which we knew already.

"mc" wrote in news:VaMcg.365$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews1.bellsouth.net:

Even with hands-free phoning;it's the conversation that is the distraction,and I've read about studies showing that it's the same as for handheld phones.

Agreed. I've had too many near-misses from people yakking while driving. (also a recent collision may have been due to CP.)

Yes,the volume of exhaust for any auto is far greater than what's emitted from a cigarette.

It would simply show that cars are deadly for everyone, and cigarettes aren't.

I saw some comic guesting on some sitcom where he gets invitited to some hotsy-totsy fundraiser, and a bunch of old biddies are bitching about his smoking: "Did you know that second-hand smoke is ten times as dangerous as first-hand?" "Well, guess I made the right choice, then." ;-)

Cheers! Rich