Being good

[memnus]

I'm going down to Salt Lake Archery, really this time. I'm also going to pay for the month-long shooting pass; that way I'll guilt myself into at least six practice sessions before the Desert Open. EDIT: They have a post on the bulletin board inside that they're open on Sunday... it's a lie.

Discussion question: Which of the following behaviors, repeated for a year, would be worse for my lungs?
a) Living in Salt Lake City, but going to smoking-allowed clubs on a regular basis
b) Living in the Los Angeles basin

(I ended up back at Area 51 last night after all, and was very glad I did. People are cool.)

Next step: Email the climbing email list and find SoC people to go with.

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Comments

[archonsengine.livejournal.com]

I vote b. You're only at clubs so many hours a week, but you breathe local air pretty much 24/7. I think that more than compensates for the likely lower quality of air in a smoke-filled club.

[ladydrakaina.livejournal.com]

My lungs vote A, but that's mostly because I have asthma that reacts strongly to cigarette smoke, and I prefer having visible breathable air all the time to being unable to breathe some of the time, and then recovering for a week or so from over exposure to smoke. Given that that's probably not an issue for you, I'd say they're about equally bad, but not so bad that I'd worry about it.