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And thats literally all I did for four hours, because thats what you do: you chat to strangers in a way that you dont in other public settings, and thats really special. In what she describes as an increasingly isolationist society, she worries about the impact that losing smoking areas could have on human interactions: I think wed be losing a genuinely valuable, non-digitally-mediated space to meet strangers and those are actually really, really rare. Naturally, then, club smoking areas are also ripe for building romantic connections