The Wayward Blog Still Allows Smoking

The Brick, the Record Bar, Davey’s … no longer will concertgoers be able to light up a delicious Marlboro Red or Benson & Hedges 100 and blow it into the face and lungs of cranky nonsmoking music lovers braving deadly secondhand tar and carbon monoxide and god knows what else in order to support their favorite band.

Well, smokers, you can still spark a fag right here on the Wayward Blog. Think about it: if you smoke here instead of at the bar, you’ll probably live longer because you tend to spend less time here than in bars and you can’t actually smoke on a Web site.

Personally, I have mixed feelings about the smoking ban. It seems both like a trampling of business owners’ (that is, bar owners’) rights, but also it’ll be good for the music scene, getting more people out to shows. Maybe they should’ve just made all live music events non-smoking. That would have quelled a lot of complaints in my circle.