Declan Murphy wrote:
> Dan Rempel wrote:
>
>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> Dan Rempel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Declan Murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> another fool wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> You can use a lighter for sex as well as combustion?
>>>>>
>>>>>> You would light a stoggie with something other then a wooden match?
>>>>>> Sir you should be drawn and quartered for your blasphemy!
>>>>>> Thanks for the cigar linkage though...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My local tobacconist usually supplies long wooden matches with each
>>>>> box
>>>>> purchased. I thought they all did?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We now have a no-smoking bylaw that prohibits using the eternal-flame
>>>> lighter in the tobacconists from being used to actually light up your
>>>> purchase. Can't smoke in a bingo pallor either; something is indeedy-do
>>>> wrong around here.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> Surely you can use the "external-flame lighter" elsewhere though?
>>>
>> Yeahbutt, there's something so pleasant about stepping up to the classy
>> in-store lighter with your latest health-threatening purchase and
>> setting it ablaze (the purchase, not the store). As for the elsewhere's,
>>   as far as I know the only place you can legally smoke around here is
>> on suburban streets, in your car, and at home. Doesn't matter much to
>> me, since my cigar purchases are few and far between, but I still think
>> it's stupid.
>
>
> You cannot puff away on a pipe or a churchill in a bar somewhere? Or in
> one of those lovely looking leather sofas in a club with oak pannelling,
> antique shotguns decorating the walls, a billiard table from the 19th
> century and crusty barman from the same? Outrageous!

Smoking in public places (which AFAIK includes private clubs) is now
illegal here; go figure.

Dan