right Pib,
nobody would kick you out of his/her house because you want to smoke, those non smokers here would even send one of the kids to the neighbours house or the colmado to borrow a ashtrey for you, but it would be a bad move of a smoker smoking in a non smokers house.
dominicans are much less smokers than other nationalities i lived with.
i get asked for a smoke quiet often, mostly by the boys working around the boats down here, but most of them do not smoke.
same for local colmados at my 'hood, everybody knows me, so there are the usual 'neighbours' who ask for a smoke, it's a usual long time game, but most don't smoke. sure there are no marked smoking areas at a colmadon or such, but as a heavy smoker myself i always spot my seat where others smike nearby and do not sit right aside a non smokers dominoes table. even that they would most likely not complain about their wellknown neighbour smoking there, but it would not be a nice move from me to do so.
i also agree on the point with connecting with people by sharing the bad habbit of smoking, at a new place you get into conversations quiet often just starting with sharing a smoke or only offerring a light to a bar-neighbour.
Mike
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