apologies!

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Kishore, ,Shyam,Ravin...Hey I did not want to sound the way I did and I

sincerely apologise if I sounded haughty,patronizing or a smart ass...actually

there have been so many occasions when I have felt like falling off the

bandwagon of ex -smokers especially in the first few years after giving it up

and at certain stressful occasions even later when I have imagined solving a

problem after taking a long drag..only an ex-smoker will be able to understand

that feeling. I have at many an occasions caught myself taking a deep breath

when I am near cigarette smoke....and I don't say yuk most of the times(I am in

deep trouble if I am the only one who feels this way though)......and there have

been times when I have wanted to smoke a cigar here in the US... I do like the

smell of smoke at times even now....actually it is just the knowledge and the

insight which information and love for folks around you makes you not to get

back into the habit...and is it not easy to do it

once you have done it earlier...I think it is ! I look back at the time when I

got into the habit ..I was an absolute advocate for the ills of smoking prior to

that....but I still ended uo doing it because it was available, looked

cool,friends around me were doing it and I thought I would never get addicted

.......and that is the only reason why I said what I said..I think even if it is

once in a while.....for an ex-smoker I think it should be never...and for small

kids who we know are watching all around us....it should not be a thing that is

cool for the adults whom they respect around them to be doing.......and

every one is different and some more than others can draw a line easily...I am

going to take you up on your offer of a nice evening at your place sooner than

you think though......got you!!

Ashish

ashish sachdeva wrote:

Amen!!

Ashish

Shah wrote:

Dear ,

I think that the Sheesha restaurants in Koregaon Park, near ABC farms that

you are trying to remember are Sheesha Cafe, Cafe Carnival and Basho's.

Kishore Shah 1974

PS: After that mail from Ashish, I think we need the fol. disclaimer after

such letters:

Statutory warning: The author is himself a non-smoker. This mail in no way

promotes the use of Sheesha or other tobacco products. Smoking is injurious

to health. It can and will kill you. And if it doesn't, Ashish will!

Sheesha

>> >Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:44:36 +0530

>> >

>> >Yes, there are special restaurants in Pune which offer aromatic Sheesha

>> >(Hookah) joints. Koyla is one of them. Then there is a dhaba on Bombay

>>Pune

>> >Road called Tony da Dhaba (near Talegaon / Wadgaon). Here besides the

>> >Sheesha, one can relax on a rope khatiya with satin cushions and order

>> >Bater

>> >(the small bird) dishes for reasonable prices, besides a pint of lager.

>> >

>> >One leading hotel has advertisements claiming absurdly that their

>> >Sheesha

>> >is

>> >medicinal because they add various herbs to the tobbacco, so that these

>> >herbs can be inhaled in the smoke. I think their ads should read 'FREE

>>FREE

>> >FREE Offer! Cure your asthma and get COPD for free.'

>> >

>> >When I was in Egypt, there was a health awareness movement going on

>>there,

>> >educating the bus / taxi drivers that smoking Sheesha was worse than

>> >cigarrettes because of the huge pull required to inhale all the smoke

>> >through water. Guess what souvenir I brought from Egypt? No prizes for

>> >guessing though.

>> >

>> >Kishore Shah 1974

>> >

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