[News] Rolling tobacco to be banned in May?

[Guinness Boy]

It is deemed that flavoured cigarettes encourage underage smokers, so they are being banned completely on those grounds, not on health grounds.

And to think, I started to impress girls with the additional hope that they actually went behind the bikesheds to show boys their knickers.

 

[Guinness Boy]

It is a pathetic law. If adults want to smoke menthol cigarettes, then let them.

Indeed. What possible harm could be caused by going around smelling like Dot Cotton

 

[RandyWanger]

Is there an age for vaping? I see more and more kids doing it. I thought it was to help adults addicted give up smoking, not encourage kids? Maybe they need to ban the perfumed vape also.

 

[Pickles]

And to think, I started to impress girls with the additional hope that they actually went behind the bikesheds to show boys their knickers.

Any girl that went out with me was menthol.

 

[Swansman]

It may become law but who obeys that these days?! Increasingly people don’t and justify why they steal, speed, sell drugs, stab etc to the point our government is almost complicit in allowing. People will just ignore, it’s another of those yeah whatever laws.

Too many unfortunately. When did you see someone smoke at the pub last time?

It SHOULD be one of those "yeah whatever laws". We should all be more like the Danes and consider every law a vague, ignorable recommendation from worried parents.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Any girl that went out with me was menthol.

and mine were unfiltered.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I don't think it should be banned until there is a fair amount of scientific evidence that it is actually bad for you.

Is that the right way round ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Too many unfortunately. When did you see someone smoke at the pub last time?

It SHOULD be one of those "yeah whatever laws". We should all be more like the Danes and consider every law a vague, ignorable recommendation from worried parents.

EVERY law?

"Johnny, when you go out please make sure you wear your coat as it's getting a bit chilly and you might get a cold. Look both ways when you cross the road. No spitting. Oh, and could you try not to rape or murder anyone?"

"OK MUM! WHATEVER!"

*manical laugh sotto voce*

 

[portlock seagull]

Too many unfortunately. When did you see someone smoke at the pub last time?

It SHOULD be one of those "yeah whatever laws". We should all be more like the Danes and consider every law a vague, ignorable recommendation from worried parents.

A pub is self policed though, a landlord would ask that person to leave his or her pub.

 

[daveinplzen]

Never thought I would see the day that weed would be easier to get hold of than tobacco

 

[AmexRuislip]

Too many unfortunately. When did you see someone smoke at the pub last time?

It SHOULD be one of those "yeah whatever laws". We should all be more like the Danes and consider every law a vague, ignorable recommendation from worried parents.

JJ Moons in Ruislip Manor.
Be it the punters are fractionally outside the entrance, there's always a bank of cancer fog outside, very kind for the non smokers who have to wade themselves through it.
Marvellous age we live in, more custom for the already beleaguered NHS.

 

[Swansman]

EVERY law?

"Johnny, when you go out please make sure you wear your coat as it's getting a bit chilly and you might get a cold. Look both ways when you cross the road. No spitting. Oh, and could you try not to rape or murder anyone?"

"OK MUM! WHATEVER!"

*manical laugh sotto voce*

Well yes.. sort of. Denmark is one of the countries ruled just with common sense. Especially Copenhagen is completely lawless. It all works out.. reasonably well.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

It is deemed that flavoured cigarettes encourage underage smokers, so they are being banned completely on those grounds, not on health grounds.

Good god, the mick-taking and grief I got for smoking menthol cigarettes at a young age was enough to keep me on the Marlboro Reds for far too long

How times change

 

[schmunk]

JJ Moons in Ruislip Manor.
Be it the punters are fractionally outside the entrance, there's always a bank of cancer fog outside, very kind for the non smokers who have to wade themselves through it.
Marvellous age we live in, more custom for the already beleaguered NHS.

Worse than that - carrying one's newborn child through the fug at the front of the hospital...

 

[Swansman]

JJ Moons in Ruislip Manor.
Be it the punters are fractionally outside the entrance, there's always a bank of cancer fog outside, very kind for the non smokers who have to wade themselves through it.
Marvellous age we live in, more custom for the already beleaguered NHS.

Sometimes I walk on a street and there are cars puking evil fumes yet I dont cry like a little pussy about it. You'll survive those two seconds exposed to passive smoking and if you dont, well Darwin has spoken.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Sometimes I walk on a street and there are cars puking evil fumes yet I dont cry like a little pussy about it. You'll survive those two seconds exposed to passive smoking and if you dont, well Darwin has spoken.

Have I hit a nerve poindexter?

 

[Springal]

Hopefully they go after vapes and those stupid 'flavoured' vape juices. Grown men walking down the road blowing bubblegum smoke everywhere.

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I gave up smoking nearly five years(or so) ago. I still enjoy the smell of a newly opened Golden Virginia or Old Holborn. If it's banned, how can I ask a smoker if I can sniff their pouch?

If they want to ban something that can have a detrimental effect on peoples health, go after knifes and guns

 

[thony]

Hopefully they go after vapes and those stupid 'flavoured' vape juices. Grown men walking down the road blowing bubblegum smoke everywhere.

I had heard that there were serious risks of "popcorn lung" from the sweeter flavours of vaping fluid, but it now looks as though that's "unproven" - however, the risky chemicals that were a concern in those flavourings have now been banned in the UK according to this Cancer Research link:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ab...-controversies/does-vaping-cause-popcorn-lung

 

[Springal]

I had heard that there were serious risks of "popcorn lung" from the sweeter flavours of vaping fluid, but it now looks as though that's "unproven" - however, the risky chemicals that were a concern in those flavourings have now been banned in the UK according to this Cancer Research link:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ab...-controversies/does-vaping-cause-popcorn-lung

Hopefully those indulging in this are still alive for take part in the mass law suits in 20 years time when they get all the health problems I expect - or perhaps not to save the burden on the NHS ;-)