One is still a smoker when one is with non-smokers (and doesn't smoke). One is no longer a non-smoker when one is with smokers. How hard is that to understand? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
There is only one condition for attendance at the Helsinki meet: you cannot fly there. But you can videoconference. That way, in virtual space, what you do to yourself is merely pixels. There is no passive experience in virtual space. It's just words, images and your memory. You can't be me, I'm taken
Since about three years, I have been approached by ever moe smokers, from idiot teenagers to old men, all surprised when I told them off. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
