Like, OMG, it’s so important that a restaurant bans smoking that it makes it on TV. That’s pretty cool.
The banning will happen on June 1st, according to the McGrady’s website.
I love the patio and the uber-cheap drink specials, but …can we get a ban on the bad food, too?
In case anyone was wondering, happy hour specials after the break…
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Thor’s nicotine dependence post a couple of weeks ago came at just the right time. I happened to witness one of the dangerous side effects of smoking. A girl was driving down my street while trying to light her cigarette. She proceeded to hit my neighbor’s parked car. While I did feel bad (for my neighbor), I also laughed at her complete stupidity. I had to go to work so I am not sure if she actually admitted how she came to hit the car to my neighbor or the police.
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University of Virginia’s Ming Li, released a study in February which discovered a gene associated with smoking/nicotine dependence in Europeans and African Americans. The evil gene, which many of you have, is called NRXN1. Here is the image of said evil gene:
If that doesn’t look like a smoking addict, then I don’t know what does.
The research is groundbreaking for several reasons. Mainly, finding a gene that results in increased nicotine addiction brings us closer to identifying why certain people have more addictive personalities to certain drugs. Additionally, the study is important because it provides “novel and strong” evidence that the gene is linked to nicotine addiction, for the first time in African Americans; and confirms that the gene is linked to nicotine addiction in Europeans.
Still no word on how to kick smoking.
The abstract, for science buffs, is after the break:
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Enough is enough. Both of my breakfast/brunch outings this past week were ruined by Virginia’s malignant pastime; smoking. I know I know, we are ‘down south’. Who cares. Its 2008 not 1955, and by now everyone knows how bad cigarette smoke is. If we can smoke whenever we please we should also be able to shoot people in the gut, for fun. While both might result in death, for some reason when someone waves a gun in the air we all run for the hills, yet when they smoke, we just mutter under our breath. It’s really never ok to smoke amongst people who haven’t given you the permission to do so. »Read More
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