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Article: Smoking suffragettes.(NEWS: ARTNOTES)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Attitudes to the new smoking restrictions in the art world are as various as anywhere else. If anything the art world seems to be blessed with more than its fair share of rampant libertarians wanting to celebrate self-harm by tobacco, and equally of rampant moralists interfering with these pleasures with their bossy nanny-statisms that, they are forced again and again to explain, are nevertheless true. Stuck in the middle are the people with fewer opportunities to cadge a smoke who then bleat on about it regretfully afterwards, and who seem to be mostly for the new restrictions. Conclusion: the art world has no especial virtue, and quite probably a deficit.
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