Smoking ban - something I didn't consider!

[Uncle Spielberg]

I was in George St and the pubs were packed , strange thing is inside it was empty and not just during the day in the sun, at 9pm at night and outside was packed where people were drinking and laughing and having a fag and were with lots of non smokers as well, all the non smokers inside sat there miserable looking into their pints and I thought I had crashed a funeral wake.

Also I like to have a tab in Ladbrokes whilst I watch a race or play the roulette machine and no one that goes there has cared for the last 20 years that I do, I did light up and stood in the alcove outside looking in and the bloke ushered me out saying you can't stand there you will have to go into the street. Utter madness when the cars going down emitted 1000 more pollutions than my fag.

 

[tedebear]

The majority are non-smokers. You can't please everyone so you must go with the majority.

Sadly thats what has happened - I prefer to think that we must repsect everyones right to do whatever they want (within the law) and whether we like it or not, good for us or bad, we need to be able to have that choice in our society.

 

[Yorkie]

What if the Withdean remained a smoking environment? Do the non-smokers have to suffer? Who should get their own way? The smokers damaging their own health and that of others? Or the non-smokers? After all - the non-smokers don't have to go to the football (the selfish gets!)

You're posting as though smoking is a guarantee of ill health. It is a risk.
Withdean is in the open air and smoke isn't the same as in an enclosed space like a pub or workplace.

 

[dougdeep]

But if you sit next to a heavy smoker at Withdean, you end up getting more smoke than from someone at the other end of a pub or office.

 

[tedebear]

Lot's of people like smoking crack. However society and the clearly selfish majority, prohibit it. Are you a complete libetarian? Shall we leagalise everything?

Eh? People should be allowed to do what they want within the law I said? Since when is smoking crack legal?

 

[Yorkie]

But if you sit next to a heavy smoker at Withdean, you end up getting more smoke than from someone at the other end of a pub or office.

Fortunately I haven't got that around me but I would politely ask them to stop or move away (seeing as how there are empty seats all over now)

 

[tedebear]

But if you sit next to a heavy smoker at Withdean, you end up getting more smoke than from someone at the other end of a pub or office.

I'm not a fan of smoking in Stadiums, open air or not, my issue is specifically with pubs...

 

[Kenhead]

I have to admit i do find it slightly funny that before this month most places were for the smokers and a fair few didn't care a toss about my views on smoking. Now the tables are turned and the non-smokers have more of a choice about the enviroment on where they work and socialise, where i have heard a fair few smokers saying how unfair it all is. Well maybe they should have been more considerate before this month, for me to give a dam what they thing now.

 

[bhaexpress]

I haven't had a day of work in 20 years, like British Bulldog says just give us a place where we can smoke and deposit the butt, preferably far away from the anti smoking mafia and their sanctimonious attitudes,

Why do you say that not smokers are 'sanctimonious' ? Does that make you obnoxious because the majority of people find your habit anti social and selfish ? Not had a day off in 20 years ? Bully for you, I just wonder is your smoke has caused somebody who doesn't smoke to take time off but somehow I doubt that you've considered that. Personally I have no objection to people who smoke as long as it's not near me but what a shame a handful of smokers can't understand that non smokers tend to find your habit unpleasant.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I went to a club last night. A shocking move itself with my unfeeling leg and withered spirit, but it was a pre-birthday drink-up and i was already given a Rocky Balboa silk gown and shorts. A quite ridiculous gift, but one i wore into the wee hours of this morning, including some moments i was in what i believed to be an alternative music place in Islington, London. £3 to get in. But eclectica was for other days. This was a combo of 80s pop and wacko, upbeat latino funk. Not an utter disaster as the few of us 30-something idiots there were drunker than concerned. But there was no smoking there, breathing was easy, and anyone wanting a snout nipped out and came back for a jiggle with their yellowed teech and cancerous breath alone. It seemed as if there were times slightly better than addiction. Moments when music or chatter are more pleasing than a lumpen, lousey lung screaming at the brain to have it's life-shortening shitpack redeliverered. When alcolohic lust outweighed a tarring reliance that ended choice at whatever age. Was quite a nice night.

 

[DJ Leon]

Eh? People should be allowed to do what they want within the law I said? Since when is smoking crack legal?

Well bingo! Smoking in a pub isn't legal!

 

[dougdeep]

I haven't had a day of work in 20 years.

Lazy sod.

 

[tedebear]

Well bingo! Smoking in a pub isn't legal!

Thanks for stating the obvious. Absolves you from the debate then.

 

[cannedheat]

And what about the smokers who cannot perform properly because of there drooping dicks, what do they do they go to the doctors get told that there todger is droopy because of there habit and what do you know they get prescribed Viagra a very expensive drug that us the non smokers pay for.

Use a lolly stick that's what I would tell smokers.

 

[DJ Leon]

Thanks for stating the obvious. Absolves you from the debate then.

Not really, I'm pointing out that saying that within the law people can do what they want DOES NOT support your argument - it supports mine.

 

[Pat McCrotch]

What he said!!

Last Sunday I went to the pub with 3 mates who all smoke. As I mentioned previously I don't so once every half an hour or so they upsticks and went for a fag leaving me sat on my todd waiting for them to return. It certainly didn't improve my pub going experience!

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go outside with them and carry on your conversation unsociable sod

 

[tedebear]

Not really, I'm pointing out that saying that within the law people can do what they want DOES NOT support your argument - it supports mine.

It does now. But I'm not debating that...

 

[cjd]

Seeing as a non smoker is less likely to have to take time off work sick through smoking related illnesses no.

Oi...! Make your mind up.....I thought the main thrust of the argument was that smokers were making non-smokers ill............


Sorry to be so late replying to your post.......just got back after a very pleasant day cycling by the river with my young children............ahhhhhhhhhh.........the joy of not inhaling the pollution given out by cars.

 

[Yorkie]

...........ahhhhhhhhhh.........the joy of not inhaling the pollution given out by cars.

There was research about children having asthma that lived near trunk roads.

 

[bhaexpress]

Oi...! Make your mind up.....I thought the main thrust of the argument was that smokers were making non-smokers ill............


Sorry to be so late replying to your post.......just got back after a very pleasant day cycling by the river with my young children............ahhhhhhhhhh.........the joy of not inhaling the pollution given out by cars.

Yes but that's actually legal. It's a shame you've also rather missed the point of this thread too. Still, do you smoke and if so, in front of your children ?