smoking ban?

JACKS · #1 01-07-2007, 06:07

just wondered what everyone thought of the no smoking ban as a smoker myself and the magority of poeple in pubs smoke just wondered if the pubs might be slightly empty tomorrow. thinking of opening my own pub in the back garden!mr. x your more than welcome!

Mr. X. · #2 01-07-2007, 07:15

Yay! go girl, What's the address, I'll be round tomorrow!!

hardcoredlw · #3 01-07-2007, 08:07

I hate it, but then again, I am a smoker myself. Maybe they should take all the non-smokers (less than 25% of the population) and give them their secetion of the country. Then I would not have to hear them b itch not would I have to smell their alcoholic, cigar smoking butts.

Vixz06 · #4 01-07-2007, 08:18

I'm so happy. I know someone who never smoked a thing in her life but all her work mates constanlty smoked. She died at a very young age of Lung cancer because of this passive smoking. Its put me and all my family off smoking and I hope it can cut down all the problems because of smoking and the NHS can then concentrate on those health problems that couldnt have been prevented. BIG UP THE BAN!!!!

Smokeabella · #5 01-07-2007, 08:28

We've had the smoking ban in Ireland for a couple of years now. It is weird the first time you go out but you soon get used to it, to the extent that if I was to smoke now in a pub I would find it so strange.You'll feel great the next day too, hair still smells good, chest doesn't feel like it's about to explode etcGo ahead and open the pub in your back garden, sounds good, but don't stop going to your local too. You might just like the change....

Sarrah · #6 01-07-2007, 08:37

I love it.

kksay · #7 01-07-2007, 08:46

I am a former smoker of 2 1/2 packs a day for 18 years and I think it is a good idea. When the smoking ban happened in my state, there was a slight decline in restaurant business but it soon came back to normal. Now when they start banning smoking in open air areas (which they have) then I think there will be problems. Even your pub in the back garden wouldn't be legal!

Kquestion · #8 01-07-2007, 08:55

Here in the states you can still smoke depending on the ratio of how much alcohol compared to food they serve. I think it's a bit ridiculous...I'm a former smoker and still occasionally light up when I'm out...I mean they might as well ban alcohol...Yeah cigarettes are bad for you but so are cheesburgers and french fries but you dont see them being banned at mcdonalds...I think cigs smell foul but as for the research stating the dangers of 2nd hand smoke...it's all so inconclusive and subjective

godsmack_jenny · #9 01-07-2007, 09:16

I think that it's good to have a ban in no smoking, it's more enjoyable. Since I've quit smoking, food tastes better, life is better, alcohol is better

You should try to quit

demure-manure · #10 01-07-2007, 09:25

long overdue!went to a none smoking pub a few weeks ago and it was packed and really nice to breath clean air. ofcourese, a big, fat arragant man sparked up and stubbornly smoked his fag, until being asked to leave!!people can take trheir fags outside, i cant just nip out when someone sparks up cos the poisons will still be air bound when i get back..smokers are stubborn cos they know smoking is killing them, so in reaction formatiojn, they claim to love smoking and become ignorant of people that dont smoke, and bitter that they cant give up...i should know, i smoked for 17 years before giving up 2 years ago...THE BEST thing i ever did

spashoe · #11 01-07-2007, 10:25

Can't wait for the ban.Sick of losing my voice after a night out because of the smoke.Sick of stinking of stale smoke.Aah the bliss of clean air whilst relaxing.

weezyb · #12 01-07-2007, 10:37

I live opposite a pub, was thinkin about dragging the sofas out to the front garden so we could all sit in comfort. maybe put the TV on the front windowsill so we can catch up on current affairs lolI to am a smoker and I know it will stop me from going to places.I am respectful about smoking around people that do not smoke, but people are not respectful around me as a non-drinker, I find it very rude that they drink around me, but they get all psycho when I light up a cigarette.

Hello Dave · #13 01-07-2007, 11:35

Its a Â£50 fine if you smoke indoors nowOk but the premises receives a Â£2500 fine!Bar Workers are now obliged to physically restrain a potentially agressive very drunken smoker from lighting up!The passive smoking argument seems lame now compared to that.Breath in smoke or thanks to new 'laws' wrestle a drunk out of his head over a cigarette. Hmm

da_muse327 · #14 01-07-2007, 11:55

when they came for the Jews i did nothing. cuz i wasn't a Jew. when they came for the blacks i did nothing cuz i am not black. when they came for the gay , i did nothing cuz i am not gay...when they came for me their was no one left to help....you don't smoke . that is a choice .. i did .. that was a choicei understand that second- hand smoke needs to be an issue that get some serious action ( strong ventilation) i don't know.... but when you start making people leave a bar to go have a cigarette in the alley .. you go against biblical and constitutional rules and the whole premise of a bar or pub. relax , come as you are, be who you who the heck you be. well, Sally smokes and Fred doesn't. Fred should stay the Hell away from Sally... and if the whole bar is full of Sally's maybe "Fred " who is ()))non smoking people who are bothered by smoke)))) should go to a different bar . maybe the Fred's of the world should have their own bars ... just don't ask the government to get rid of smokers from bar they belong there as much as you do....think of ways to co-exist not how to tell some one else what to do..how dare you Fred ...

qphoenix_q · #15 01-07-2007, 12:15

In the states, people who smoke tend to be less affluent, and poor people tend not to vote or contribute money. I'd be willing to bet that the cigar club to which Governor Schwarzenegger belongs in California is still in operation.

Grizley Bear · #16 01-07-2007, 12:26

well as a non smoker i can now enjoy a nice quiet drink and something to eat in my local with my family without putting up with other peoples disgusting cigarette smoke