[Thai Kwan Do]

By author Dean Barrett
OK, so as you know by now, there is no longer any smoking in Bangkok bars, pubs, restaurants, whatever. As a non-smoker (former smoker, kind of, but never an anti-smoker) I don't particularly enjoy somebody else's smoke wafting over toward me. But in my experience anti-smokers are would be dictators who also want to ban what they think we shouldn't eat or see or hear, and if you give them political power, they will become real assholes. I hate fanatical anti-smokers more than I hate cigarette or cigar smoke. So, OK, to borrow part of a line from E.M. Forster, two cheers for non-smoking. But not three.