Smoking in the Boys Room

I went to The Firehouse Lounge last night after a few month hiatus and I had forgotten how the deck turns into a huge ashtray the closer it gets to 2am. There is nothing that kills my enjoyment of good house music like hacking up a lung from other peoples need to smoke. Don’t get me wrong, you have every right to torture your body if you so choose, but don’t I have a right to not be tortured in the process? And don’t give me the “well you can go somewhere else or stay home if you don’t like it” speech, because every other state that has introduced and enforced a ban on smoking hasn’t suffered for it and in many cases even prospered. It makes your clothes and hair stink, your eyes burn, and second hand smoke needs no explanation on what it does to your lungs.

Clubs should adopt the what some Airports have done, make a dedicated room where people could smoke. Its very entertaining to look in those glass rooms with people just standing around smoking like a laboratory experiment.

Yet another reason why Pittsburgh is the pitts. They had the smoking ban law passed but then squashed it. Kudos to the owners that decided to uphold it or voluntarily ban smoking in their establishments. (Nothing against The Firehouse because the place rocks. And having drunk folks constantly tread up and down flights of stairs to have a smoke might not be the safest solution. Although they could take the front closet and shove all the smokers in there...)