BensGrandad
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We need a smoking area!!!!
- Thread starter Worthingite
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sir albion
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Agree
It's the media that make passive smoking out to be the devil,all this research bollocks aswell is mostly tripe.
The research doesn't tell you the whole story,many people who die actually have had other health problems,but it's always easier to blame the smoke from cigarettes.
Tom Bombadil
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No, but his wallet is
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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Thai airports allow smoking in designated areas. BKK has numerous rooms for smokers on their way to departure gates. Thankfully, I'm an ex-smoker and don't need that facility at an airport but it makes it easier for those that do.
I'm not sure how it would work at The Amex though but it should be considered by the club. So long as I don't have to walk through a wall of blue smoke wherever they put it...not being sanctimonious, just hate the smell now.
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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That explains why my chronic coughing and eye problems cleared up within a couple of days of my banishing Mrs Bwian to outdoors when she wants a cigarette. Your argument comes from an uninformed, poorly researched place. passive smoking in a confined space (indoors for example) is proven to be harmful. No amount of table thumping from you will change that fact.
I think they may - and I stress the word MAY - sell more beer. I'd go earlier knowing I could have a pint and a smoke before.
To all the people just going "no, we don't", why would it affect you if there was? It would be no worse than what happens now, at the end of the game, with hundreds of people lighting up at all the exits. In fairness, I could smell cigarette smoke at my seat at the front of the North while the players were clapping the fans. There must have been hundreds of people lighting up at once, and as [MENTION=205]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] said, one of those perspex cubicles would ventilate the smoke properly. It would have, if anything, a positive impact, you holier-than-thou non smokers wouldn't have to walk through the fug of freshly lit fag smoke at the end of games
believe me, climbing 100+ steps to West Stand Upper is the best reason not to have a fag. But, by God, I need a pint after that!
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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Would you smoke in the same room as a baby? Child? Sick person? If not, why not if the risks are vastly exaggerated?
Meant to have included this in my last comment-I'm not an obsessive ex-smoker on a crusade.
34064 Fighter Command
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We had a bloke at half-time being interviewed about the dangers of cancer and you want the club to encourage it!!!!!!!
Pfffffffffttttt..........
Wear a patch, or give up. Sorry, that is all.
Pfffffffffttttt..........
Wear a patch, or give up. Sorry, that is all.
If you cannot go without a fag for 90 minutes you need help, not a special area at the AMEX. PS I'm being serious. By all means smoke, I have no issue with this, but you have no right to smoke where you like and if you cannot go more than 90 mins once a week then your really do need to take a look at yourself and what you have become.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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a) it's more than 90 minutes and nearer to 2 hours (half time=15 mins.......15 mins ish combined pre and post match is not uncommon)
b) if you've been drinking, 2 hours is a LONG time to go without a smoke........a ridiculously potent combo
Hillian1
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Agree 100%, and I'm a very heavy smoker.
I have no issues at all at not being allowed to smoke in the stadium, as I have none with pubs/clubs etc, in fact I quite like coming home not reeking of fags.
bristolseagull
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just have one in the bogs, noone seems to give a shit.
As I said, I think you need help.
turienzo's lovechild
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- Oct 25, 2003
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nope....don't smoke much if i haven't been drinking (a few a day maybe), but when i've had a couple of pints my lungs just go apeshit and need a bit of TAR in them
for the record, i'm not fussed about going 2 hours without at the football and obviously do it every time i go....a smoking area would just lead to a rushed one at half time, and i can definitely go 45-1 hour without....but towards the end of the game i'm certainly PINING
Most smokers I know actually prefer the new laws as well. One rather popular argument I have heard is that having to go out the front to have a ciggie means you meet new people and you have an excuse to leave the table if the pub conversation is getting boring. My friends are always popping out for a fag when I'm with them down the pub, the obviously like meeting new people.
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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ATFC Seagull
Aberystwyth Town FC
I haven't read all 9 pages, but has anyone pointed out that we effectively have 9 completely independent sections of the ground (North, WSL, West Stand 1901, WSU, South, Away Section, ESL, East 1901, ESU)? So it really isn't a case of putting up 3 perspex walls and stationing a steward outside.
I have no personal issue with people smoking (long as it's not in my face), but I think smokers might need to realise that they really are moving further towards the margins of society, and to expect people to go through so much hassle and organisation just so they can have a fag just isn't going to happen anymore.
I have no personal issue with people smoking (long as it's not in my face), but I think smokers might need to realise that they really are moving further towards the margins of society, and to expect people to go through so much hassle and organisation just so they can have a fag just isn't going to happen anymore.
What I love about the new breed of militant non smokers is how brave they all are. Calling smokers pathetic, or saddo's or losers etc etc from behind a keyboard, ooh listen to you lot.. Do you ever say it to a smokers face? No chance, you have all just got a bit braver cos you are in the bigger gang now. When the smoking figures were a rough 50/50 split it was usually the 'naughty' working class kids who were the smokers, and the sensible, geeky kids the non smokers, did they say much then, no. But now being in a heavy majority the holier than thou types are getting lippy, albeit on an internet forum. Well, I hope a few of you get a slap from the naughty boys if you have the balls to pipe up face to face like.
Oh, and before you ask, I gave up 4 months ago, just defending other peoples right to smoke in open spaces.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Sorry - didn't realise the Roy castle thing had come up until reading the rest of the thread.
But I am not hysterical. I am a "never smoked" person rather than a zealous reformed former smoker. I just don't like smoke and the smell of Cigarettes, unless they're French - they seem to smell different over there.
Smoking in virtually all enclosed or substantially enclosed public places in the country is now against the law, affording non-smokers a level of protection from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
What does it mean for you?
You must not smoke in any enclosed or substantially enclosed premises. Some commercial premises will provide a smoking shelter which must have at least 50% open to the outside air.
What does it mean for you?
You must not smoke in any enclosed or substantially enclosed premises. Some commercial premises will provide a smoking shelter which must have at least 50% open to the outside air.