tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post113753207172265608..comments2024-03-25T06:39:42.081-04:00Comments on Bonfire of the Vanities: Water Bongs are back!Fr Martin Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01375628123126091747noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-77098775945220326132011-04-26T05:40:32.884-04:002011-04-26T05:40:32.884-04:00Smoking with bongs is really cooooooool. I prefer ...Smoking with bongs is really cooooooool. I prefer using bongs when I am at leisure. It's a great experience very much different from normal cigarette smoking. Btw, I smoke only tobacco not anything illegal.Kevinhttp://www.marketplace-brighton.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-44958208670831572612008-02-13T10:44:00.000-05:002008-02-13T10:44:00.000-05:00nice....but try these water bongs: http://www.wate...nice....but try these water bongs: <A HREF="http://www.water-bongs-glass-pipes.com/" REL="nofollow">http://www.water-bongs-glass-pipes.com/</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-1137637628773444722006-01-18T21:27:00.000-05:002006-01-18T21:27:00.000-05:00As Eddie Izzard said: "[in reference to CA bar smo...As Eddie Izzard said:<BR/> "[in reference to CA bar smoking ban] Yes, no smoking in bars now and soon no drinking and no talking! Be careful California, you're supposed to be the crazy state — out there, the wild ones. Soon everybody will be saying, 'Come down to the library, we'll have a wild time!'"<BR/>And don't worry, plenty of young people still smoke the more illicit substances in their bongs! <BR/>(Not me though, the closest I get to smoking is drinking a dram of Laphroaig!)<BR/><BR/>Yours in Christ,<BR/>ThursdayThursdayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15847256657687330452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-1137617508363908582006-01-18T15:51:00.000-05:002006-01-18T15:51:00.000-05:00I suspect that the passive smoking effects are rea...I suspect that the passive smoking effects are real. I certainly know that I enjoy eating a meal in a resturant without smoke. And before I retired I often had to fly from Washington DC to Syracuse, and it was amazing to me how much better I felt after a flight when the no smoking rules went in.<BR/><BR/>This is one of those difficult situations of how to balance my right to clear air and at the same time support their desire for and/or thier addiction for tobacco. And don't kid yourself, tobacco is addictive for about 50 per cent of those that smoke. When I quite I went through all the clasic withdrawl symptoms including shakes and nausea for about two weeks. When I stopped drinking it was a picnic compared to that.<BR/><BR/>I smoked long enough that for many years I felt that I had no reason to ask others to stop doing what I had done. But today I feel that I have the right to protect myself from the intrusion of smoke from others. <BR/><BR/>Courtesy may be the proper answer, but that seems to be lacking in both smokers and not smokers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-1137616501858109022006-01-18T15:35:00.000-05:002006-01-18T15:35:00.000-05:00For some of us, it's difficult to be rational on t...For some of us, it's difficult to be rational on the subject of smoking. In my own case, the fact that my father died from his heavy cigarette smoking when I was 12 makes it intensely repulsive to me. However, I don't push my views on people- as long as they don't blow the stuff in my face, they can do what they want.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09015745990344837357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-1137536023171497732006-01-17T17:13:00.000-05:002006-01-17T17:13:00.000-05:00Yes the whole passive smoking effects thing could ...Yes the whole passive smoking effects thing could be over-rated but just in case it isn't - in the interest of all those waitresses, waiters, barmen and barmaids - maybe it is better to err on the side of caution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14168956.post-1137534027619902512006-01-17T16:40:00.000-05:002006-01-17T16:40:00.000-05:00The local Lebanese community in New York's Capital...The local Lebanese community in New York's Capital holds an annual dinner, dance, and party - including hookah smoking.<BR/><BR/>I think Fr. Jim (maybe I'm wrong) noted that hookah smoking is very similar to the one-off cigar or pipe. You don't do it 24/7 or count the number of packets of hookah tobacco you put down/day. It's a one-off pleasure and part of a social/cultural milieu.<BR/><BR/>I remember reading a very funny and true quote from an Islamic writer talking about why Islamic militancy is bad – again, don’t remember where. In it he said that pushing this militancy, especially by those who laze around the cafes in the Middle East, will result in a Western backlash – and that after the war there will be no more hookah, no more shish-kebab, no more cafes, just flat earth.Deacon Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18409546072521240987noreply@blogger.com