[mburbank]

"Smoking itself has a romantic appeal to me,"
Because you're a moron. There was aa time when smoking might have had a 'romantic appeal' beyond peer pressure. That was before they discovered it causd cancer. Unless cancer has a romantic appeal to you. What's more romantic than a fat guy in a wheelcahir on oxygen?

"I was introduced by the heavily-smoking fencing crowd."
Watch out. they are almost as tough as those worldy theater kids. The mind boggles. A clove smoking fencing crowd. How do you keep from reqaching critical gay mass and haveing a gay nuclear reaction with that miuch gayness in one place?

"that's something that might be worth trying."
Please, please, please do. Know what's really cool? Those guinness world record types who smoke, like forty at a time. That'll show the fencing crowd who's cool.