Chicken Runner61
We stand where we want!
- May 20, 2007
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Oh so you want smoking in public banned but pissing in public places is ok is it?
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New York City to ban smoking in parks, beaches and boardwalks
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Oh so you want smoking in public banned but pissing in public places is ok is it?
Uncle Spielberg
Well-known member
Eh, what ?.
This.
Im still not sure how smoking on a station such as Hassocks if done at the end of the station is classed as smoking inside.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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potentially. there are carcenogens created in cooking, especially in frying and at very high temperatures.
i wonder if this is the step too far, someone will challange it legally and then might go on to the existing bans.
That is absolutely outrageous!
cannedheat
Banned
I sat outside Costa Coffee enjoying a cup of tea last Sunday when some prick of a smoker skins up a dirty old roll up and wafts the smoke over me, told him to eff off and he moved.
Smokers should be made to wear badges saying I STINK.
Smokers should be made to wear badges saying I STINK.
I think smoking should be banned in all public places tbh. During the summer, sitting outside pubs, to have people's fag smoke wafting over me was intrusive. The argument it should be allowed outside pubs is basically flawed if there is a sitting area
And it should be banned in the taxi queue at Brighton station..
Oh hold on, it is...
it's just that the selfish tossers can't wait, and the station security / brighton council can't be arsed to enforce the ban...
spring hall convert
Well-known member
I had a funny thing happen quite shortly after the smoking ban, when people were still flouting it to some degree.
I was at Brixton Academy and cheekily lit a cigarette (there were plenty of others being smoked) when someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to put it out - fair enough.
Then I looked at his T Shirt and it depicted Bob Marley smoking what looked like a foot long joint. He was less than impressed when I pointed this out.
I'm a smoker who can see the sense in the current legislation - taking it any further seems ridiculous to me.
And here's one for the 'You Smoke I Choke' brigade. Tax generated from the sale of tobacco is more than the entire budget of the NHS. So the 'drain on the NHS' arguement is bullshit.
I was at Brixton Academy and cheekily lit a cigarette (there were plenty of others being smoked) when someone tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to put it out - fair enough.
Then I looked at his T Shirt and it depicted Bob Marley smoking what looked like a foot long joint. He was less than impressed when I pointed this out.
I'm a smoker who can see the sense in the current legislation - taking it any further seems ridiculous to me.
And here's one for the 'You Smoke I Choke' brigade. Tax generated from the sale of tobacco is more than the entire budget of the NHS. So the 'drain on the NHS' arguement is bullshit.
I think smoking should be banned in all public places tbh. During the summer, sitting outside pubs, to have people's fag smoke wafting over me was intrusive. The argument it should be allowed outside pubs is basically flawed if there is a sitting area
I find your 'holier-than-f**king-thou- attitude' gets right up my nose too. Maybe you should be barred from public spaces as well?
I find your 'holier-than-f**king-thou- attitude' gets right up my nose too. Maybe you should be barred from public spaces as well?
And it should be banned in the taxi queue at Brighton station..
Oh hold on, it is...
it's just that the selfish tossers can't wait, and the station security / brighton council can't be arsed to enforce the ban...
I find your 'holier-than-f**king-thou- attitude' gets right up my nose too. Maybe you should be barred from public spaces as well?
Is the correct answer. Smokers pay for the costs to the NHS SIX times over, end.
Sausage
The wurst of the wurst.
- Dec 8, 2007
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I agree.
- Jan 18, 2009
- 4,885
God bless America,
Land of the FREE
Maybe something for the 8th Amendment.
Land of the FREE
Maybe something for the 8th Amendment.
clippedgull
Hotdogs, extra onions
Latest tax figures from tobacco sales: £9 billion per year
Latest NHS budget funded by taxation: £110 billion
cannedheat
Banned
Maybe I do get up up your nose, but I don't smell of dog shit unlike you.
Harsh but true.
cannedheat
Banned
No matter what argument smokers post on here they will always be shot down in flames.
My issue was a general one with a certain type of selfish smoker who ignores bans where they are in place.
You replied with a direct attack on me personnally.
Nice.
I'm out of this conversation.
desprateseagull
New member
whats next? chewing gum? swearing? coffee??
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,015
you can add to that VAT ( + £1.57 B), corporation tax on those based here ( + £1B). then theres the the contribution of profits to pension funds and the tens of thousands employed directly and indirectly by the industry, of which the treasury grabs a slice too.
while, it is not true that the tobacco taxes are greater than the whole NHS budget, it is true that they more than cover the cost of smoking related illness. which is why they dont outright ban it.