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    Quote Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
    I will never smoke. Does it matter, when we play in smoke-filled casinos?
    Yes, it matters..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dbs6582 View Post
    Freightman, you're not by any chance the writer for the Austin Powers movies, are you? Writer by day, and blackjack player by night. lol

    This is the first time I've tried linking a youtube video. Hope it works. If it doesn't work, look up this joke with Austin Powers. It's one of his better lines.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TIpjUp-gDw
    I missed that line. It's an old joke, and it's a classic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Freightman View Post
    I missed that line. It's an old joke, and it's a classic.
    Agreed! I'm sure it's been used by more than Austin Powers. At first I thought it was a Steve Martin joke. I know he told one that was about smoking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dbs6582 View Post
    Agreed! I'm sure it's been used by more than Austin Powers. At first I thought it was a Steve Martin joke. I know he told one that was about smoking.
    You are referring to, of course - The Great Flydini

    https://youtu.be/s9xKU8eYCFk

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    Well I guess the poll shows that like in life the smarter players and people overwhelmingly don't smoke. It is just the weak willed and less intelligent that still smoke today. You have to admit that since smoking went from making you look cool to making you look weak, stupid and inconsiderate few would choose to become smokers. Most have watched relatives or friends become sickly in general or die from smoking. The smell of the smoke is worse than the worst body odor, and the smoke itself is offensive and can make you sick. Everyone gets an allergic type reaction to second hand smoke that creates the right environment for germs to thrive which can cause infection. What type e of person would smoke around others knowing this? Of course some backwards parts of the country are dragged kicking and screaming into the next century. If you live in a state full of inconsiderate and ignorant people the laws protecting the innocent from the assault on the health from smokers may not be in place yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Three View Post
    The smell of the smoke is worse than the worst body odor,
    Three, overall I agree with your post, except the above line. I sat next to a guy last month that had such bad body odor I had to move to another table. I think he had just got off a boat and hadn't showered for two months. Yes, smoking stinks but there is some pretty bad body odor out there that can trump it. I speak from experience. Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dbs6582 View Post
    Three, overall I agree with your post, except the above line. I sat next to a guy last month that had such bad body odor I had to move to another table. I think he had just got off a boat and hadn't showered for two months. Yes, smoking stinks but there is some pretty bad body odor out there that can trump it. I speak from experience. Lol
    An assault to the olfactory senses is cause for removal until the issue s resolved. People have been removed from airplanes for offensive odor.

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    The sportsbook was relatively full for a week night as the Vegas vs San Jose series makes for an interesting group. But just one guy had to light up a fat cigar and start running his mouth. Body odor is bad but you can always move to get away from it. But this guy has to make himself the center of attention. On a busy weekend, like the Kentucky Derby, you know it's going to part of the scene. So you go to a non smoking place.

    The one that gets me is the guy who stands just on the other side of the non smoking sign an blows smoke into the area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Three View Post
    Well I guess the poll shows that like in life the smarter players and people overwhelmingly don't smoke. It is just the weak willed and less intelligent that still smoke today. You have to admit that since smoking went from making you look cool to making you look weak, stupid and inconsiderate few would choose to become smokers. Most have watched relatives or friends become sickly in general or die from smoking. The smell of the smoke is worse than the worst body odor, and the smoke itself is offensive and can make you sick. Everyone gets an allergic type reaction to second hand smoke that creates the right environment for germs to thrive which can cause infection. What type e of person would smoke around others knowing this? Of course some backwards parts of the country are dragged kicking and screaming into the next century. If you live in a state full of inconsiderate and ignorant people the laws protecting the innocent from the assault on the health from smokers may not be in place yet.
    Sorry Three, thats bullshit. I know plenty of intelligent folk who smoke or were smokers. In fact, some of the most intelligent people I've met are smokers.

    There's religious scientists out there..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushie View Post
    Sorry Three, thats bullshit. I know plenty of intelligent folk who smoke or were smokers. In fact, some of the most intelligent people I've met are smokers.

    There's religious scientists out there..
    I am with Three all the way on this one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
    I am with Three all the way on this one.
    One must be quite dense to say all smokers are unintelligent or weak willed. Terrible judgement? Probably. Blatant indifference to the overwhelming evidence that the shit will kill them? Most definitely; but, these are not married to unintelligent/weak willed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
    I am with Three all the way on this one.
    My father was a heavy smoker for 75 years. After having read about the bad effects of smoking, he decided to give up reading. He was very smart, both intellectually and street wise. He knew what I thought, but he couldn't help himself.

    He passed at 83 - no doubt he had lots of years had he not smoked.

    The damage that smoking can do is not necessarily immediate, rather cumulative over a period of years. Forget the emphysema, smoking weakened his arterial system - he had a ruptured abdominal aortic anayeurism at 74. It was a miracle that he survived. He lost all of the blood in his body, obviously replaced - his kidneys shut down and he was on dialysis for the rest of his life - never the same physically.

    His choices at 83 because if smoking) were as follows. Die, whatever gets him first, from more anayeurisms developed and about to burst (confirmed), which would have been virtually instant, let the liver cancer (spread) eat him alive and cause an excruciating death, or go to a hospice, stop his dialysis and be kept comfortable.

    He chose the latter, a decision as difficult as it was, which I supported.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
    I am with Three all the way on this one.
    I take it you don't know many smokers?

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