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Smokers beware - No butts !
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In the town nearest my children's school you get a £50 on the spot fine if the litter man sees you drop a butt. They went around a few months ago and changed all the rubbish bins so they have those cigarette stub things on top and a special bit for butts. I don't smoke but I know two people who have been fined for dropping their butts on the ground.
cannedheat
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Serves him right for partaking in such a filthy habit.
bhaexpress
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Starry said:
Fair enough but as an ex-smoker just where is somebody supposed to stub out a cigarette if there's not one handy ? It's not like we have Corporation Ashtrays is it ? Personally although I agree lobbing a fag butt out of a car window is obnoxious what can you do if you're in the street ?
bhaexpress
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Trigger said:Day Five of my giving up, so far so good...
Well done, keep trying. I reckon it'll be much easier to give up when smoking in pubs is banned, there's less temptation.cannedheat
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Well done keep it up, you know it makes sense.Trigger said:Day Five of my giving up, so far so good...
bhaexpress said:
I don't know. Never been a smoker so never given it much thought. But there are bins all.over.the.place. They have been on a litter kick recently, fining people for the butts and dropping other litter. A friend of a friend got a £50 fine because her son in his pushchair dropped a piece of paper that he'd coloured at nursery and she didn't realise he had (she'd have picked it up, every mum wants to keep their children's art work!) dropped it until the Rubbish Patrol Man from the council lept out and wanted her details so he could fine her.
But I'm glad they are clamping down on litter!
Skaville
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How long until the smoking ban?
Tricky Dicky
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Jimmy Saville said:
Not soon enough !
bhaexpress
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Jimmy Saville said:
Like Prohibition in the 1920s in the US such an act will probably make people start smoking and lead to a lot of illegal activities involved with the supply of tobacco. Apart from that no government wants to lose the revenue it gets from tax hence there's no real attempt to stop it.
I think that smokers are now starting to be treated like lepers.
bhaexpress
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Brovian said:
Good point and in fact Chewing is slightly dangerous. Apart from the fact you can choke on it the act of mastication generates stomach acid which is meant to break done food which it doesn't actually receive.
Brovian said:
I'm sure it was on the news recently that there are plans to tax the Chewing Gum manufacturers to help pay for the cost of cleaning it up.
Trigger said:Day Five of my giving up, so far so good...
I have 'given up' for the last 3 months. I find it really easy to give up at home and work and am currently renting a non smoking flat so that bits easy. However, as soon as I get down the pub and have a first sip of a beer I have to have a ciggy.
I used to be completely against the idea of smoking bans in pubs but now it can't come quickly enough because I want to give up properly and not be the sort of occaisional smoker poncing off my mates that I used to laugh at
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Dick Knights Mumm
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I can't imagine why anyone over the age of 18 would want to smoke these days. Very strange.
Dick Knights Mum said:
No one over 18 ever starts IMO. You start when you're 13 or 14 and too stupid to realize the consequences. By 18 you're hooked.
Skaville
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Dick Knights Mum said:
um... tobacco is one of the most addictive substances in the world...
Skaville
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Guinness Boy said:I have 'given up' for the last 3 months. I find it really easy to give up at home and work and am currently renting a non smoking flat so that bits easy. However, as soon as I get down the pub and have a first sip of a beer I have to have a ciggy.
I used to be completely against the idea of smoking bans in pubs but now it can't come quickly enough because I want to give up properly and not be the sort of occaisional smoker poncing off my mates that I used to laugh at
Snap. Nine months for me. I quit the fags, but then started smoking the odd cigar down the pub. It's kind of weird that I started becoming more like my user name.
Guinness Boy said:I have 'given up' for the last 3 months. I find it really easy to give up at home and work and am currently renting a non smoking flat so that bits easy. However, as soon as I get down the pub and have a first sip of a beer I have to have a ciggy.
I used to be completely against the idea of smoking bans in pubs but now it can't come quickly enough because I want to give up properly and not be the sort of occaisional smoker poncing off my mates that I used to laugh at
Will be so much easier to give up when the ban comes in. I was living in New Zealand when the ban came in there, I stopped and haven't had one since. That was nearly two years ago. Makes the pubs so much nicer as well.