Bingowings said:

(hardly any of my post are specific directed at things you do personally).

but yet you were criticizing me personally for getting drunk and being critical of smoking at the same time.

Bingowings said:

Drunks often have a negative effect on the health of people who don't or rarely drink it's often worse than the effects of passive smoking.

drunks? yes. drinking itself? no. It is what people do while drinking,especially while drunk, that is the problem, not actual act of drinking itself. With smoking it is the actual act smoking around others that is the problem

Bingowings said:

The mania around smoking while rooted in good intentions is as pointlessly intrusive as the more militant branches of the Temperance Movement.

I don't see it as intrusive or pointless, just to warn people about the dangers of smoking and to try to keep others from being harmed by second hand smoke.

Bingowings said:

You should give a pal hug a try Warb, some of my best cuddles have been of a non-sexual nature.

Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. I don't think Gaffer lives anywhere near me.