smoky nightclub... or crack?

There is much brouhaha about Lindsay Lohan's interview with Vanity Fair where she talks about her eating disorder and her drug habits - apparently it's not surprising that she's dealt with the two, but rather that she's talking about it candidly and openly... feh.

One article on CBS writes: Lohan is in a Miami hospital right now, recovering from what her family says was an asthma attack, and Cagle notes, "This hospitalization was terrible, terrible timing, just because it's going to raise all that speculation. But we do know that she suffers from asthma and she was out at probably a smoky nightclub on New Year's Eve, so we have to give her the benefit of the doubt there."

The only problem is that there's no smoking allowed in nightclubs or bars in New York... even the bars that let patrons slide a bit.. never even begin to approximate the degrees of smokiness of bars in other cities I've been to.... however, there do seem to be quite a few studies about how cocaine use exacerbates asthma symptoms - namely Prevalence of cocaine use and its impact on asthma exacerbation in an urban population and New-onset bronchospasm or recrudescence of asthma associated with cocaine abuse...