[Tango-L] Tango-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3

[milonguero505]

Thanks for sharing this fantastic news, Janis. Whether you're sitting twelve
feet away or fifty, you are sharing the cigarettes of those smoking, as well
as suffering the same devastating long-term health effects. Second-hand
smoke is just as deadly.

It will be fascinating to see how this plays out, in a battle between the
dancers' smoking addiction vs their tango addiction.

Paul Akmajian
Albuquerque, NM


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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 01:29:33 -0300
> From: "Janis Kenyon" <jantango at feedback.net.ar>
> Subject: [Tango-L] New indoor smoking law in Buenos Aires
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> We returned to our tables after a tanda.  The woman at the table next to me
> commented on how much cigarrette smoke bothers her.  I looked around and
> didn't see anyone smoking within twelve feet of us, so I asked her how she's
> able to go dancing since so many smoke in the milongas.  We were in Lo de
> Celia where there were only twenty people attending Emilio's milonga on a
> cold afternoon.  She told me that things will be changing on October 1st.
> The Congress debated the issue for a long time, but it finally passed both
> houses.  A law will be in effect as of October 1 prohibiting smoking in
> public places.  That is going to affect milongas.
> 
> During a tanda, I mentioned the new law to my partner.  He replied, no one
> will come to the milongas.  The woman doesn't feel the new law will matter
> to most people.  Her comment was, the desire to go to the milonga is
> stronger than the desire to smoke.
> 
> Only time will tell.  If the law keeps people away, the atmosphere of the
> milongas will change in more ways than one.  The foreigners will be happy to
> dance in a smoke-free environment.  They may end up dancing only with other
> foreigners.  Dancers who need to smoke will have to go outside, while others
> will wait for them to return for the next tanda.
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