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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1508340" data-attributes="member: 158">For our games, we solve it in three ways:1) Most of us don't drink or smoke.2) We game from Noon till 6pm, so even "social drinking" is not an issue.3) The two people who host our games in their houses don't allow drinking or smoking in the house.So it's a nonissue. We'll do "smoke breaks" if a gamer smokes, for 5 minutes every couple of hours, but in general we don't have any smokers who crave any harder than that. Lately, we have NO smokers, so we don't even prep for that anymore.It's kind of an unwritten rule in the group - no drinking alcohol or doing anything else impairing while gaming. After some bad experiences in my teen years with dumb<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />es who didn't know better, I refuse to game if someone at the table is drinking. If it were "happy hour" time (say after 7pm) I could understand, but them drinking anything stronger than 1 or 2 beers or ales would turn my fun off right there.</blockquote>

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