[Dane]

What's it like being from the same culture that produces a ban on Santa Claus and indoor smoking?

The old liberal trick of painting with the broad brush, I see. I think that Montgomery County, Maryland is a nut house, but you go right ahead and put Santa Claus on the same moral plane as marijuana, crack, and heroin.

[JohnGalt]

Sure you are from the Conservative end of the Neo-Puritans; I don't deny you that. Or perhaps, you are on the Left of the Fundamentalist side, tolerating Santa, but certainly not whatever your neighbor chooses to injest. Perhaps you are a moderate centrist, turned off by the 'extremes' of the particular culture that you come from.

But I was asking a question about what it was like...apologies, perhaps that was too open ended. How bout: what toxins are 'okay' for ingestion, what is not okay?

If you can tolerate Santa, than I figure your fixation is in ingested substances-- correct me if I'm wrong.