re: #382 Gus 802

Yuck, the smoking bans. They’re almost nationwide and here in Colorado. No smoking in bars. Right, for “health reasons.” I guess they’ve never seen a cirrhotic liver. I remember being in San Francisco once and hearing some people complain about me smoking a cigar — on the sidewalk. Another time I was walking through Berkeley smoking and people were looking at me like I was from Mars. I finally looked up and saw the signs which look like “No Parking Signs” that read “No Smoking.” They’re starting to institute no smoking in public spaces including outdoors. And it all originated from California.

You haven’t had fun until you’re at the Fillmore for a concert and every idiot and his third cousin is lighting up joints.

As I said to a friend once, “If I lit a cigarette, I’d last about as long as a parent at a repressed memory convention.”