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>
> Smoking is plain and simple, an ADDICTION.
> I have no problem with the addicts but only when
> they involuntarily make me share their smoke.
>
> Being an addiction, smokers have a thousand
> rationalizations for their action.
>
> If you ever quit, you will suddenly notice how
> much your life will improve, your health, your
> wallet, social life, etc etc.
>
> You are smart and you are decreasing your
> potential by smoking when the carbon
> monoxide attaches to your hemogobin and
> not alow as much oxygen to be carried.
> Your brain cells as well as all other cells
> are affected.
>
> Everyone knows this and this will have
> minimal impact on smokers.
>
> I absolutely hate rental cars because of
> the stench. I once rented a brand new
> Lincoln that had only 50 miles on it
> but the first driver was a smoker. I
> could not stand it.
>
> Rant over.
> --- mickeycrimm <mickeycrimm@
>
> > --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.
> > >
> > > > 2a. Re: Jean Scott's Frugal Vegas BLOG - 13 JAN
> > 2008
> > > > Posted by: "mickeycrimm" mickeycrimm@
> > mickeycrimm
> > > > Date: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:04 am ((PST))
> > > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > But the business never comes back to the level
> > it was. For small
> > > > business owners it's the difference between
> > going through 20 kegs
> > of
> > > > beer a week and only going through 10 kegs a
> > week. A smoker is
> > just
> > > > not going to sit in a bar if he can't smoke. The
> > non-smokers just
> > do
> > > > not flood in to take the places of the smokers.
> > > >
> > > > If it is a casino the gambler is going to spend
> > as much time
> > outside
> > > > puffing away as he spends inside.
> > > >
> > >
> > > There is some truth in the above, but it is by no
> > means as absolute
> > as suggested.
> > >
> > > First of all, there appears to be an implied
> > assumption that "small
> > business owner" means "small bar owner", and there
> > ARE other small
> > businesses that have no problem with no smoking and
> > it doesn't hurt
> > their business.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I don't believe smoking bans hurt restaurants much
> > but have a big
> > effect on bars. It's the bar/restaurant where
> > decisions have to be
> > made. When the latest smoking ban went through in
> > Nevada stand-alone
> > bars were left smoking while bar/restaurants had to
> > make decisions
> > like giving up the food end or walling the
> > restaurtant off completely
> > from the bar.
> >
> > >
> > > I don't know very much about bars, but the poker
> > rooms in Indiana
> > riverboat casinos are all smoke-free, and I frequent
> > them often. I
> > see the smokers leave the tables to have a
> > cigarette, going to the
> > nearest non-smoking area (on many boats, it's a door
> > to the outside,
> > and they'll go no matter what the weather; at
> > Caesar's Indiana, it's
> > OK to smoke immediately outside the poker room and I
> > see railbirds
> > immediately outside the poker room, two feet from
> > the no smoking
> > sign, having a cigarette). At least at the places I
> > frequent, they
> > aren't gone that long, probably less than 5% of the
> > time -- at places
> > where the whole facility is smoke-free, especially
> > if they're large,
> > it may take longer to get to a smoking area and
> > back, but I doubt
> > that the non-gambling time would equal the gambling
> > time.
> > >
> > >
> > > I see many players who are not smokers, but who
> > spend long days at
> > the tables, take longer and more frequent breaks
> > than smokers. And I
> > see many players, both smokers and non-smokers, who
> > try to miss as
> > few hands as possible.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Live poker and smoking is a different scenario. In
> > Wendover I have
> > my choice between two smoking rooms and one
> > non-smokiing room. About
> > 80% of my play is in the non-smoking room simply
> > because that's where
> > the money is. But when I walk outside the rail to
> > burn one the game
> > continues. The rake continues. And the game is
> > moving a little
> > faster due to one player being missing. They are
> > not losing any
> > revenue because of my smoking habit. With slot
> > players the button on
> > that machine is not being pushed while the smoker is
> > outside.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Most smokers, if they ever fly an airplane, have
> > learned to go a
> > few hours without a cig if they have to (I know they
> > don't like it,
> > but most of them manage, and while there are plenty
> > of reasons today
> > to drive, if possible, rather than fly, I haven't
> > heard "no smoking
> > on the plane" listed as a common reason for making
> > that choice).
> > Depending on how driven they are to smoke, and how
> > driven they are to
> > gamble, individuals WILL decide which one has
> > priority at any given
> > moment in time, and while they might prefer to do
> > both at once, when
> > that's not an option, not very many will choose to
> > give up one or the
> > other completely. They'll strike some balance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > For the life of me I can't explain why I can go for
> > hours in a non-
> > smoking situation with no discomfort at all but just
> > as soon as I get
> > to where I can smoke I go into nicotine withdrawals
> > from hell.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Certainly drinkers can find somewhere other than a
> > bar to drink AND
> > have a cigarette (and I've never understood the
> > fascination with
> > paying so much extra for booze in order to drink in
> > a bar, instead of
> > just going to a liquor store and taking it home --
> > so the bar must
> > have SOME other feature that makes it worth going
> > there to drink).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > It's called social drinking. My IQ goes up 10
> > points with every
> > drink. Why would I want to drink alone where nobody
> > can tell how
> > smart I've become?
> >
> > How weird is this? You would think a booze hound
> > like me who just
> > happens to spend about 300 days per year gambling in
> > casinos would
> > get thousands of dollars per year in comped
> > alcoholic beverages.
> > WRONG!!! I'm a stone cold teetotaler when playing
> > machines or live
> > poker. I don't want to see the stuff when I'm
> > working. And it's not
> > out of any conviction about gambling and drinking.
> > I simply can't
> > stand to drink when I'm working, and I can't stand
> > to work when I'm
> > drinking.
> >
> > When booze touches my lips I'm off for the day and
> > that's it. I'm
> > headed to the nearest alky bar where I can buy
> > rounds and debate the
> > world's problems with the other ten fools on the
> > stools.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Personally, I try to avoid sitting next to smokers
> > when playing VP,
> > if possible, and if not, ask them if they would mind
> > putting their
> > cig and ashtray on the opposite side from me - not
> > asking them to
> > stop, but just to be courteous - and most are. I
> > still choose games
> >
> === message
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