DC Smoking Ban Vote Today

I smoke. I follow the no-smoking guidelines and even when smoking in a "smoking area", try to be courteous and aware of the non-smokers around me. If someone tells me my cigarrete is bothering them, even if I am in the smoking section or at a show, I will usually put it out.

I don't go to restaurants without a smoking section. I cook more and have more dinner parties now.

I find that non-smoking people on music-oriented message boards who rant about smoking and the hazards to their health are usually the same people who don't think twice about drinking and driving. (Rhett and Celeste probably excepted.)

If you guarantee to me that you won't ever get behind the wheel after you've been drinking (where you can do much more harm to yourself AND others), then I won't smoke around you. Promise.

Next they're going to take away my right to FART at shows. Fucking fascists.

One major advantage is that without smoke, people are going to smell my farts even more. Always good for clearing out some space around me at a crowded show.

oh god…is this thread going to end up with the DC residents of the board (who I can almost guarantee not a single one of them was born in DC)start the tired and worn "Don't you tell us what to do with our bars and restaurants you scum suburbanites" shit?

One of Williams' arguments against a complete ban is that DC resident are going to drive to Virginia bars to smoke, and DC will lose business…

Yeah, right. Like DC residents are going to "lower" themselves to such a level.

Originally posted by Etan de Balzac, Footie Ball Player:
Yeah, right. Like DC residents are going to "lower" themselves to such a level.

They go for those drive-by's don't they?

as if DC is some mecca of sophistication, pulease. if there's one thing ive learned in life it's that ppl who have to feel superior to others are insecure with themselves. ive known of enuf posers in dc to know this is the case.

Two women are walking down the road and one asks the other "Do you smoke after sex?" The second replied "I don't know. I never looked!"

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dc isn't even on the cultural map any more. there is not much of a scene anymore, and the khaki and eggshell conservativos seem to rule the scene. boring.

Originally posted by jsnow2:
dc isn't even on the cultural map any more.

When exactly was DC on the cultural map?

I sure didn't move here for the culture. Almost moved away for the lack thereof, but hell if you aint got culture, create your own.

That's bs…there's loads of culture in D.C.

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INGREDIENTS OF CIGARETTES besides tobacco:

paint thinner (acetone), floor cleaner (ammonia), bug spray (DDT/Deildrin), rat poison (arsenic), lighter fluid (hexamine), carbon monoxide, gas poison (hydrogen cyanide), alcohol (ethanol), sewer gas(methane), rocket fuel (methanol), mothballs (napthalene), insecticide (nicotine), candle wax (stearic acid),
industrial solvent (toluene),
dead body preservative (formaldehyde)

Dear Mr Gaines, it appears YOU are the stupid fuck to inhale this shit!!!

Hold on a minute…if everyone stopped smoking how would they replace the tax revenue they generate.

SMOKE! SMOKE AS MANY AS YOU CAN….IN FACT, I'M GOING TO START CARRYING A LIGHTER SO I CAN HELP THEM LIGHT UP AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
Hold on a minute…if everyone stopped smoking how would they replace the tax revenue they generate.

Legalize and tax America's fourth largest cash crop.

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
oh god…is this thread going to end up with the DC residents of the board (who I can almost guarantee not a single one of them was born in DC)start the tired and worn "Don't you tell us what to do with our bars and restaurants you scum suburbanites" shit?

OK, I might not be such a resident of this board, but you can have a glance at my crappy, Sibley Hospital reading, photostatic birth certificate any time you like. So lay your hands off my bars, yeah?

Besides, where will Hitchens drink now? There's your 25% loss.

Originally posted by mrdarcey:
Besides, where will Hitchens drink now? There's your 25% loss.

i saw hitchens a few months ago at milano and the dude was DRINKING (and chain smoking) … my uncle was in town and wanted to go see "famous for dc" people

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Legalize and tax America's fourth largest cash crop.

Just don't do this!

Italian Lawmakers to Consider Porn Tax
Thursday, December 8, 2005
(12-08) 15:45 PST ROME, Italy (AP) –


Italians would have to pay a 20 percent tax on pornography according to a budget amendment that cleared a first legislative hurdle, news reports said Thursday.

The proposed tax was approved at committee level and is expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's lower parliamentary house, early next week.

The tax is expected to raise about euro220 million (US$260 million) to help reduce the national deficit and to help fund government tax breaks to families.

"I believe the porn tax is important not for moralistic reasons, which don't concern me, but because I think that at a time of difficult economic conditions for families it is right to tax products that are not essential," lawmaker Daniela Santache was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency.

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/12/08/international/i093409S10.DTL

Originally posted by mrdarcey:

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
oh god…is this thread going to end up with the DC residents of the board (who I can almost guarantee not a single one of them was born in DC)start the tired and worn "Don't you tell us what to do with our bars and restaurants you scum suburbanites" shit?

OK, I might not be such a resident of this board, but you can have a glance at my crappy, Sibley Hospital reading, photostatic birth certificate any time you like. So lay your hands off my bars, yeah?

Besides, where will Hitchens drink now? There's your 25% loss.

My son was born in GW….does that make me a dc native by proxy? ;)

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
My son was born in GW….does that make me a dc native by proxy?

Yes!

There, are you happy now?

Now when are you gonna come clean about the Daggers & Pucaras???