Can I smoke a big fat stogey at the 9:30 Club?

[J'Mal]

I'm an old antisocial geezer and I'd like to know if I can park my big fat ass near the front of a show and light up a big fat stinky c-gahr, even if it annoys other people in the club standing 412 feet away from me.  I understand most people accept a little cigarette smoke here and there, but I'm talking fog-machine saddam style c-gahrs here, one after the other...<BR>

[Henry Dark]

If you do, I will smite you. Just don't go to the Yo La Tengo show if you don't want to be smitten.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by J'Mal:<BR><B>I'm an old antisocial geezer and I'd like to know if I can park my big fat ass near the front of a show and light up a big fat stinky c-gahr, even if it annoys other people in the club standing 412 feet away from me.  I understand most people accept a little cigarette smoke here and there, but I'm talking fog-machine saddam style c-gahrs here, one after the other...</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR> don't go to the Yo La Tengo show if you don't want to be smitten.<P> [/B]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Word of the day #1................<P>smite    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (smt)<BR>v. smote, (smt) smit·ten, (smtn) or smote smit·ing, smites <BR>v. tr.<P>1.   <BR>a.   To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.<BR>b.   To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.<P>2.   To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.<BR>3.   <BR>a.   To afflict: The population was smitten by the plague. <BR>b.   To afflict retributively; chasten or chastise.<P>4.   To affect sharply with great feeling: He was smitten by deep remorse. <BR>

[Mosdef]

Tell me when you're going to do this.  I'll sit next to you and puff a blunt.  You can be the cover for the chronic..

[Ikarus]

is this some kind of code for getting together to smoke pole?

[J'Mal]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ikarus:<BR><B>is this some kind of code for getting together to smoke pole?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>No, I just think that in a crowded club where people are interested in the on stage entertainment, perhaps a significant number of them (incl. moi) find cigars to be obnoxious.  Accordingly, perhaps the club should rethink its policy permitting cigar smoking.  There was an old fart chain smoking cigars at Kasey Chambers and it was irritating.

[paige]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by J'Mal:<BR><B> No, I just think that in a crowded club where people are interested in the on stage entertainment, perhaps a significant number of them (incl. moi) find cigars to be obnoxious.   There was an old fart chain smoking cigars at Kasey Chambers and it was irritating.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>i agree with you, but are you one of those people that don't mind copious amounts of cigarette smoke but HATE cigars? maybe i'm misconstruing your issue here (obnoxious vs. plain old noxious). i hate the smell/crap of cigarette smoke at shows, but i know its unavoidable. and cigars are just a little different so i dont see where people can hate one and not mind the other...hmm<BR>

[Guiny]

Too bad.....Smoke away people!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AvidConcertGoer]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by paige:<BR><B> i agree with you, but are you one of those people that don't mind copious amounts of cigarette smoke but HATE cigars? maybe i'm misconstruing your issue here (obnoxious vs. plain old noxious). i hate the smell/crap of cigarette smoke at shows, but i know its unavoidable. and cigars are just a little different so i dont see where people can hate one and not mind the other...hmm</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I smoked for around a month of so and then quit, but even now I can enjoy the occasional cigarette or a few puffs off of a cigar. Though this is true I STILL don't like coming home from a show smelling like an ashtray. I do not see why there would be a difference between cigars, cloves and cigarettes.

[paige]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Guiny:<BR><B>Too bad.....Smoke away people!!!!!!!!!!!!!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>bahhhhh!  

[J'Mal]

I don't like too many cigarettes, either, but there's nothing much to be done about that.  <P>Cigar smoking is different.  It takes a rare number of cigarettes to destroy the 9.30 club, but cigars are like the nuclear bomb of smoking. Lots of places permit cigarettes but ban cigar and pipe smoking. It's perfectly rational. The 9.30 should be one of them.

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by J'Mal:<BR><B>I don't like too many cigarettes, either, but there's nothing much to be done about that.  <P>.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>why dontcha move to California?

[J'Mal]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> why dontcha move to California?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I'd miss you<BR>

[markie]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by J'Mal:<BR><B> I'd miss you</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>But I dont know you, and besides there is always the internet.

[Jaguär]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by markie:<BR><B> why dontcha move to California?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>He'd only have to move to Maryland if a new proposed law is passed. <P>As a lover of freedom, it even makes me cringe and I am a somewhat militant non-smoker. I love it on a personal level but am totally very fearful of it on a much bigger political and social level.<P>