Smokers and Courtesy

Subject:      Re: Non Smokers Are Fools
From:         Jim Geary 
Date:         1997/01/15
Newsgroups:   rec.gambling.poker


Irish Mike wrote:

> next to them?  They are addicts that willingly kill themselves and
> poison their own children - what the hell makes anyone think they
> care that they are harming some stranger at a poker table?

The players I play with in the Fort McDowell games are always courteous 
and aidful in my efforts to avoid second-hand smoke.  In any given game
at 10-20 or higher there are usually at least four or five other people
with whom I've played before, often six or seven.  Perhaps familiarity
brings out extra courtesy, I don't know.  In any event, I certainly
would prefer integrated poker rooms.  If card rooms were segregated,
I would expect the non-smoking games to be not as lucrative as the mixed
games.  (By and large, the tougher players are non-smokers, I'd say at
least 80%; whereas the players I'm happy to have in my game are 50%
smokers) In the smoking-preferred games (but not required, hopefully !),
I'd expect the smokers to perhaps take extra license with nonchalance
towards non-smokers' concerns because the smoking status has been
"legitimized" in that particular game.  I'm fervently antismoke,
but the status quo seems like the best of all possible worlds.

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