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[Kevin Wood]

Agree with all that has been said regarding government meddling. Their legislation makes no assumption that anyone has any common sense and can weigh up the risks and decide for themselves about any aspect of their lives. They clearly consider they are the exception in this matter, having failed to ban smoking in the commons.

what will be next? Driving? Drinking? Fishing?

Quite possibly. We have got a ban on fox hunting for no good reason than that a few single issue lobbyists decided they didn't like it. Nobody was forcing them to be a part of it. One could make exactly the same arguments about fishing IMHO.

Driving is being dumbed down to the point that we all drive by the numbers on the signs rather than exercise any judgement of our own. If it weren't for the fact that successive governments have destroyed the public transport infrastructure they would be saying that we shouldn't drive, but get on a bus / train and leave the driving to a professional "for our own good".

Drinking is already in the sights as mentioned.

There won't be much left to enjoy in this country at this rate.

Kevin

[Golfbuddy]

Agree with all that has been said regarding government meddling. Their legislation makes no assumption that anyone has any common sense and can weigh up the risks and decide for themselves about any aspect of their lives. They clearly consider they are the exception in this matter, having failed to ban smoking in the commons.

what will be next? Driving? Drinking? Fishing?

Quite possibly. We have got a ban on fox hunting for no good reason than that a few single issue lobbyists decided they didn't like it. Nobody was forcing them to be a part of it. One could make exactly the same arguments about fishing IMHO.

Driving is being dumbed down to the point that we all drive by the numbers on the signs rather than exercise any judgement of our own. If it weren't for the fact that successive governments have destroyed the public transport infrastructure they would be saying that we shouldn't drive, but get on a bus / train and leave the driving to a professional "for our own good".

Drinking is already in the sights as mentioned.

There won't be much left to enjoy in this country at this rate.

Kevin

I said, 'Fox hunting debate is next week'  

[Kevin Wood]

I said, 'Fox hunting debate is next week'

Oops! I'll have to start an oil thread instead! Ahh, they've banned them too?

Kevin

[Golfbuddy]

Oils well that ends well.  

[Martin_1962]

Well the one thing I do not understand about the smoking ban is the complete ban on smoking rooms - now this bit is stupid, a room where they can all gas themselves in peace and quiet without blocking pavements, and without bothering non smokers is backwards thinking, due to the smoking ban we now get smokers outside our office from the next door disabled bathroom place smoking outside and it blows in through my window!!!!

Forcing them all outside has this bad side effect

[Kevin Wood]

smoking outside and it blows in through my window!!!!

Yeah, this is a real nightmare, and worse than having a dedicated room inside the building. Used to have the office above goods inwards. With the window open, every courier van that turned up, driver got out, sparked up   Either that or they left their engine running and we got tractor fumes

Then they moved my office to the back of the building   and built a smoking shelter the other side of the car park  . Still there's air con now, so that runs 24/7 and the windows stay shut.

This is coming from someone who has been known to imbibe too

Kevin