Chat & Social > The Bar - General Chat
smoking ban
rollazuki:
OK, Im a non smoker, have never smoked, and consider myself fit and healthy etc, so the idea of second hand smoke seems to me a bad idea.
BUT. I cant imagine what a pub will be like without fag smoke. Its part of british boozers, sticky carpets, stale beer smell, and fag smoke.
I dunno, all my friends are saying its gonna be a good thing, but I do feel pubs will lose a bit of character.
L90OOK:
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---
--- Quote from: "TDi90" ---BRING ON THE SMOKING BAN - it cant come soon enough. im fed up of people who smoke while im trying to eat, and have a drink in a bar smoke smoke smoke ruining my healthy sporty lungs and hurts my eyes.
outside is fine, do as they wish each to their own, but in a public place... how SELFISH.
*puts the soap box down and carries on reivsing*
R
--- End quote ---
But banning me from smoking in my own car? They can shove that one!
--- End quote ---
Why should you be able to smoke in your car when we can't use our mobile phones? Surely smoking in a car is more dangerous than talking on a phone?
Anyway I agree with ROLLA on this one. The Great British Boozer will lose some of it's character after the ban...that's if whetherspoons don't screw them up first!
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "L90OOK" ---
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---
--- Quote from: "TDi90" ---BRING ON THE SMOKING BAN - it cant come soon enough. im fed up of people who smoke while im trying to eat, and have a drink in a bar smoke smoke smoke ruining my healthy sporty lungs and hurts my eyes.
outside is fine, do as they wish each to their own, but in a public place... how SELFISH.
*puts the soap box down and carries on reivsing*
R
--- End quote ---
But banning me from smoking in my own car? They can shove that one!
--- End quote ---
Why should you be able to smoke in your car when we can't use our mobile phones? Surely smoking in a car is more dangerous than talking on a phone?
Anyway I agree with ROLLA on this one. The Great British Boozer will lose some of it's character after the ban...that's if whetherspoons don't screw them up first!
--- End quote ---
OK, point taken, but surely a common sense approach is called for here. The next time you go for a drive and see someone using a phone while driving, look at what they do. They are either holding the phone to their ear with the opposite hand, have their head cranked to one side, or if texting :roll: holding the phone at a level where they think it can't be seen while tapping away.
Now, don't get me wrong, according to the Highway Code, certain bits of the Road Traffic Act and other and the Police Driving Manuals say that you must be in control of the car at all times, namely both hands on the wheel.
Just have a look around. How many people do you see, tuning the radio, changing a tape or CD, picking their nose, scratching their arse, arguing with their partner, gobbing off at the kids, eating or drinking, putting make up on (yes, I have seen both genders doing it!) or worse.
You mean to tell me that someone driving along with music loud enough to cause your brain to implode, if heard from two streets away, is not distracted from driving? Please, get real here!
The rare occasions I smoke in the car, the cig is either in my hand or my mouth. Lets face it, where else is it likely to be?
Yes, I probably will try to give up the 'Evil Weed' on 1st July, because I honestly wish I had never started, it is a stupid, pathetic, wasteful addiction.
My main gripe is that this another thing that this bunch of hypocritical losers in charge, are forcing upon us. Freedom of Choice!
Is the House of Commons going to become a smoke free zone? Is it 'F'!
What next?
"Hey man, you can't guff in your own car, because it upsets the carbon deposits and might offend someone"
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---["Hey man, you can't guff in your own car, because it upsets the carbon deposits and might offend someone"
--- End quote ---
:lol: I shouldnt laugh as it probably will be true one day.
landyman37:
--- Quote from: "denviks" ---well here goes. i gave up smoking last year. its now 1 year and 1 month almost to the day that i stopped..... cold turkey.
now i gave up because i wanted to and because of all the talk going on about banning smoking here. i wasnt going to let someone dictate to me where and when i could smoke :evil: . i knew that if i couldnt have a smoke with my pint i would end up not going out at all. i was smoking up to 40 a day with no ill effects, i know that i would of ended up with ill effects in the end but at the time i didnt have any.
now here is my little rant....... although i am a non smoker now, i dont agree with any of this law that is coming in now.... there has MOSTLY been a happy medium for years now ....smoking area's and non smoking area's. now this was in most places that were public...... ( ok maybe not nightclubs ) .... now this was fair..... both sides were catered for......not anymore though.... we are now heading for a society that you cant do anything that may possibly not be good for you :evil: :evil:
i agree that non smokers have a right to not breath the smoke of smokers but didnt they have non smoking places???? :? :? :?
and thats from a non smoker who's misses still smokes
--- End quote ---
Too rite dennis i packed up a month earlier than you and i also still fancey one.What are they going to do next take out sweet machines at work to stop obesity????
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version