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[CaptainZok]

That got you thinking didn't it.
As a smoker I can appreciate that many people do not want to sit in a smoky atmosphere, but I think there should be sections of pubs etc which you are allowed to smoke in. Surely modern air conditioning systems could keep smoke from smoke free areas without too much of a problem.
Its just another erosion of our so called free country that has come over the atlantic from the septics.

[sassanach]

The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed - Adolf Hitler

[Golfbuddy]

The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed - Adolf Hitler

Perhaps my Dad was right then    http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1184678429  

[sassanach]

and no i do not smoke but i do believe this is the thin end of a very thick wedge.

[razzo]

from TB
However, I think the recent ban is wrong, and the thin end of the wedge. Smokers have be banned from pubs, drinkers will be next.  In fact, there have been a couple of moves by politians lately to start making drinking beer socially unacceptable....


I take it you are aware that the prices charged in bars in the house of commons is heavily discounted, one law for them............ :-? :-?

[razzo]

Yep i smoke but what breaks me off more than anything is i use my meega on company business, i pay for insurance, running costs & the like & it don't come cheap. They tell me i can't smoke in MY CAR unless my private mileage is more than my business mileage, so have to cut down on smoking so i can afford the petrol

[Baron Von Spongebob]

And they can smoke in the Commons..

I am keeping out of this as a smoker but do appreciate non smokers deserve fresh air..I also deserve what i want after all i pay my taxes the same as non smokers..I cant help it i said i would keep out of this..

Ban drinking every where..Then we shall see even the non smokers complaining after all even smokers have to put up with drunks etc.. Oh and dont forget about the new tax they will come up with to compensate for loss of revenue from tobacco..

Live and let live.. Non smokers keep away from me with your disgusting perfume/aftershave etc.. and i will keep my smoke from you... Childish sentence isnt it..     This is what is becoming of this country..us and them, Thats wrong..Dont come back to me ranting that you shouldnt have to put up with my smoke as i agree to that..

Rant over..

[Kevin Wood]

I'd be dead in a year...

Yeah, me too, but what a year it'd be! (trys in vain to recall his stag night in Amsterdam)  

What gets to me more than anything is that, with all the media attention this has got, there has to be a 6" square no smoking sign at the entrance to every enclosed public space proclaiming that smoking is prohibited. Most people wouldn't have dreamt of smoking there anyway in most cases.

If people hated smoking that badly, they would have stopped going to pubs where it was practiced. Pubs would have voluntarily banned it, or provided non smoking rooms to make up for the lost business. A happy medium would have developed as it does in most cases, without the meddlings of the nanny state.  

As it is, all the sad cases who used to spend the whole weekend in my local drinking lager, chain smoking and watching the footie (it's that sort of pub  ) are now doing it in their own living rooms in front of their wives and children instead of in an adult environment.

Kevin

[Nickbat]

It is absolutely wrong. No question.

The rights of both smokers and non-smokers alike should be respected. There are plenty of practical ways of segregating the two.

The government does indeed wish to control all aspects of our lives and, within this trend, no ban should be singled out as being OK, no matter how much those in approval clap their hands. The government relies on this vocal opinion, whether in a majority or not, to push through ever more invasive laws.

A pity most do not see it.

[Markie]

....soooo am i the only one for the Ban....?

[Golfbuddy]

....soooo am i the only one for the Ban....?

Errr. Looks like it. Taxi for Markie?  

[Andy B]

....soooo am i the only one for the Ban....?

Err! Yes. I'm for live 'n' let live instead of of do as I say.  

[Danny]

i dont smoke, never have, never tried it, cant say i'm seeing the effects of the ban as such, apart from the fact that when you're in a pub where you were so used to smelling smoke, all you smell now is sweat and fart!

[Markie]

oh well, i`ll hang my head in shame.....

well thats the great thing about opinions - none are right, none are wrong..im a very staunch anti smoking person. Doesnt make anyone that smokes a bad person..

but just think - smokers of the forum....40 fags or 5 litres of semi synth on trade  

[CaptainZok]

i dont smoke, never have, never tried it, cant say i'm seeing the effects of the ban as such, apart from the fact that when you're in a pub where you were so used to smelling smoke, all you smell now is sweat and fart!

LOL was sat in a pub the week after the ban came in. Group of girls were discussing it and came to the conclusion that instead of smoke all pubs now smelt of BO. So get a bath you scruffy non smokers.