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My new mission in life is to enter the london marathon... Get a cab to the last mile, and run along next to the compeitors blowing smoke in their faces! (by which time they'll have run 25 miles, and will be really gasping, and so will inhale a good bit... That'll teach the fit gits!) >:D<


Come on people, it's bad enough we can't smoke in the pub, but it's happened, and we'll deal with it. But saying we can't stand outside.... Surely you breathe in more cr@p from passing cars!?!?!?

Good call on the Marathon, I may even join you and that's quite correct Keef, breathing the fumes you pick up on any normal High Street's traffic flow is probably akin to smoking 20 Capstan Full Strength a day, so cough on that yer namby pamby afraid to fooking die bloody health fascists!

As much as I approve of the fact that people going to pubs do not now come back reeking of fags - have to admit that the social split now in evidence tells you something that the health fascists don't want to admit - that smoking is cool. That's why all the pop stars do it and all the kids want to do it. That's why everyone wants to stand al-fresco with the puffers.


citizen

I started out on a pipe that I nicked from my uncle when I was about 16. I never used to smoke when I went out at that stage, didn?t go out much at that age anyway. At university I got onto the Marlborough reds as I soon figured out that I was not going to get laid looking like Huck Finn.


Now I?m old and I smoke Marlborough lights and often feel nostalgic about my old pipe.

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