Other brands ARE available, y'know.

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Adam Sage flirts outrageously with a national stereotype:

"Smokers in France are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours.

The parties, held in flats and houses but also in clandestine clubs, often draw dozens of people for a drink, a chat, a dance and a cigarette. Some are paying, others are free, but all welcome the smokers who are deserting bars, bistrots and night clubs."

And you have no idea how nostalgic that spelling of "bistrots" has made me feel, but then...why would you?

Take a deeper lungful (or two) here:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4159769.ece

(Link via sott_rss, which may suggest that smoking is now viewed as "a bit weird". Hmm. Yes, I'm totally fine with that.)

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Edit: Love these, and check out the comments - if only for the John Carpenter's They Live reference...

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/06/27/diy-anticctv-glasses.html (Includes embedded video.)

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