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Skeptical. Only believe pheremones work in 'singles' types of situations, where 'attraction' is the focus of the activity. I doubt these drops will help get you a raise, get out of a speeding ticket, a better restaurant table, or anything else. Likewise, I doubt it'll help make a prostitute lower her price for you ... when the dude next to you will pay her more.

I enjoy cigars, and find the smoking laws in Costa Rica restrictive and somewhat ridiculous and annoying - which is why I insist on a hotel room with a balcony - I live in FL and find Costa Rica much more restrictive.

A great example is the Cocal Hotel, in Jaco - its poolside, open air and you cannot smoke anywhere poolside, despite it being open air.

I've posted this before, and while I know on this subject I'm on the "wrong side of history" I think to smoke or not (and I have not had a cigarette in 25 years; only cigars) is a personal choice - and to have a business restricted as to what they can lawfully allow on their premises is wrong - patrons will make their own choices - if I for example, allow smoking in my establishment and another bans it - patrons will decide and vote with their feet - as will employees.

The anti smoking lobby - like Tobacco Free Florida also annoys me greatly - not because of their mission, but for their rigidity - they don't want any compromise, any meeting of the minds - I guess its like the position of some folks in Israel - how can you even negociate when the other side does not even recognize you, or acknowledge your right to even exist.

While I don't 100% "buy" the 2nd hand smoke hype, <after all a single 747 going from NY to LA emits more smoke and pollution that all the cigars smoked in the USA for a year source - Lew Wasserman, of JR Tobacco> I fail to see the danger in outdoor smoking, such as the Cocal.

"Sometimes patients given a placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition, a phenomenon commonly called the placebo effect."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

Guess I have steered the conversation in the wrong direction, so let me clarify, and if I may, narrate what the math (or science) behind this is. This is somewhat like the climate change argument. Most scientists are in agreement, yet there are still lingering doubts.

Guess I have steered the conversation in the wrong direction, so let me clarify, ....