[FoRK] You already had Applebee's

[Jeff Bone]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 4:58 PM, Joe Barrera wrote:

> It really sounds like you're equating smoking with being cool???
>
> You're not, in real life, a giant camel or something?
>
> Wow

Correlation, not causation.  No, I'm not a camel.  Wasn't one even  
when I smoked. ;-)

I find it alternately amusing and infuriating, though, that the folks  
that argue for prohibition it from --- when you really press them ---  
a purely aesthetic perspective, and yet for whom no compromise is  
reasonable, are arguing that they have a *right* to go and mingle  
with a group of folks (whom, clearly, they want to go and mingle  
with) that smoke in an  environment (the bar-bar, absent all  
entertainments other than smoking, drinking, socializing, and the  
occasional bar game) previously used primarily by said smokers for  
the purpose of smoking, drinking, and socializing with other  
smokers.  They want to be part of that "club" but also want to  
disable that "club" from engaging in the very activity that's often  
the common denominator among members.

jb