Re: Smoking ...Will a ban hurt of help the Industry

You're on vacation this week - right?  <EG>

-W

"Larry W. (Wayno) Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>          I am a non-smoker.  However, the wife and I have this rule
> that whenever we are on vacation, we get to do whatever we want--
> stuff we ordinarily wouldn't do-- blast our way through a few Tequila
> shooters for 7 a.m. breakfast call, mix up a couple white Russians
> (Big Lebowski), wash 'em down with 7 Krispy Kreme donuts, suck down a
> pack of Marlboro's on the terrace, and so on.  (I highly recommend
> this rule to anyone, and can almost guarantee that it will impove your
> 'quality of life'.)  However, any time a vacation dovetails with a
> major poker tournament, then a gigantic conflict occurs between (1)
> trying to enter satellites and tournaments soberly and play right, and
> (2) acting like a complete flaming idiot, a situation which is usually
> (but not always) resolved in favor of the latter.  Thus, as a
> non-smoking person who is smoking, I'd say that the smoking section
> alternative seems a good choice all around.