Nonsmoker Says Nonsmokers and Nonsmoking Suck

So says a nonsmoker at The Guardian's comment is free blogopolis.

Without a layer of smoke shifting overhead, the whole night has the evil clarity of the last five minutes when they put on the lights and shout at you to go home. It's as if you've chosen to stay sober all night.

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Now that Scotland's ban is in force, my evenings out will be punctuated by a mass exodus of friends, who will strike up relationships with the other fashionable people in the street while I am left inside with the Christians and Crunchies. I hate being left out. I don't care about your passive smoke - just talk to me! What are you laughing about? What in-jokes are you concocting, out there on the street, as you huddle in your put-upon cliques? I'll never know, because the smoking hanger-on will never be accepted. We live in a divided world: I'm stuck indoors with the obedient and middle-aged; they are the real outsiders.

Read the full post, from author Morven Crumlish -- I could not possibly love her name more -- here.