>This is just an easy gimmick for filling a column. And
>not an original or timely one.
And not one likely to alienate the editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter, who's the highest profile opponent of the smoking ban in the city. Carter is also intensely anti-Bush (and getting more so) - I'm waiting for Hitch to get as rude about that as he sometimes was to his Nation colleagues and editors.
Doug