I wish the rest of the smokers would leave too.
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Good, go stink up someone else’s breathing space. Smokers think it’s freedom to smoke where and how you want, at the expense of the ‘freedom’ of a non-smoker to breath clean air and not stink. Ya’ll smokers stink!
He’s one of my favorite living painters - though it’s his landscapes I like best.
I thought that France had prohibited smoking in most food venues as well??
good for him. It’s not against the law to smoke in the US but with all the restrictions, you’d think it was.
“The French know how to live. They know about pleasure.”
I wonder how much “pleasure” he’ll experience when puking up his guts after chemo treatments.
It took him 55 years to realize he should get out of LA! Poor old guy.
I remember during the time smoking bans were rolling out around the country, it was pretty common to see folks harassing smokers on the street.
Now they go after folks wearing MAGA hats.
As an Angeleno I vouch for cigarettes being illegal in numerous places, but marijuana smoke PERMEATING EVERYWHERE —which I find far more offensive.
After reading these comments it’s amazing how smokers have become the easy target for social ostracism. I was in Calabasas,Mexifornia TEN years ago at a motel and another guest called the Sheriffs on me for smoking a cigar in my TRUCK! They gave me a warning but it left a lasting impression on how deeply Fascism has seeped into our country. I get a kick out of people becoming self righteous and getting upset when I blow a giant cloud of cigar smoke out my window. But on the other side I’ve had compliments and even a female cop said she liked the smell. Go figure. So there is hope out there. Now remember kiddies...tobacco bad,marijuana good.
Just saw pics of the guy’s work.
France can have him with my blessing.
Smoke Nazis are worse than the smoke
Living in exile in France because America is the land of Kardashians and the Caliban who seek to ban everything from cigarettes to light bulbs, gasoline powered cars, air conditioning, etc to even toilet paper rationing (just use one square).
An artist cannot get recognized in that culture.
His art sucks
After living in LA for so long,I’m surprised he didn’t move to the French Riviera for the similar climate.
But I digress...
Now David Hockney is 82 and wants to light one up in a restaurant in France. Well hell, that was the norm for every restaurant in Iowa when I was a kid if my memory serves me correctly. Somehow, I doubt that David would ever had said, "Those Wheatlanders know how to live. The folks at Mac's Triangle know about pleasure." Just typing that gives me a chuckle. Yeah... he'd have run right out and bought a villa overlooking the Wapsipinicon after 25 rapturous minutes (10 minutes if it had been raining a lot in the previous months).
I hated my dad's cigarette smoking back then (he quit way too late), but I do miss the days before the PTB figured out how to manipulate large segments of a population into forcing other segments into straightjackets- whether anti-tobacco or pro-homosexual straightjackets.
Smoke bans started rolling out in the 90s. In the 60s many smoked.
If there were any truth to the hazards of second hand smoke, anyone who had a job before 1990, say those 1974 and earlier, would be dead now.
The painting looks like something I saw at a high school art show a couple of years ago.
I guess I should have bought it for the $30 asking price.
Japan:
Super concerned about not bothering other people and really concerned about health.
Yet smoke is EVERYWHERE.
I can never square that circle, let me know if you figger it out.