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I'm a non-smoker myself but for some reason I can't help but feel sorry for smokers. It's an addiction/pleasure of life?, yet they are shunned like a modern day leper.
Shoved into smoking rooms, thrown outside and now can't go to the pub to have a pint and a fag.
Personally, when I go out smoke can annoy me slighter. Espeically when I smell like an ashtray the next morning. However, it's in the culture now... I don;t even know if I'll enjoy going out and just smelling beer and urine. I might miss the waft of stale smoke.
My verdict is that it's correct to ban it in transport/restaurants/work but I can see their argument for social occasions.
Or something.
I'm a non-smoker myself but for some reason I can't help but feel sorry for smokers. It's an addiction/pleasure of life?, yet they are shunned like a modern day leper.
Shoved into smoking rooms, thrown outside and now can't go to the pub to have a pint and a fag.
Personally, when I go out smoke can annoy me slighter. Espeically when I smell like an ashtray the next morning. However, it's in the culture now... I don;t even know if I'll enjoy going out and just smelling beer and urine. I might miss the waft of stale smoke.
My verdict is that it's correct to ban it in transport/restaurants/work but I can see their argument for social occasions.
Or something.
So yeah, I'd like to see an outright ban. Smoking is a mugs game anyway.
> I fully support the total ban.
EDIT: Just a little though, I'm sexhah
It'd mean the smokers to stand in the doorway of the pub/club/venue/shopping mall to have a ciggarette. This then creates a thick film of smoke to penetrate through as you stroll in.
Do they not think of the children?
> My verdict is that it's correct to ban it in
> transport/restaurants/work but I can see their argument for social
> occasions.
But pubs and clubs are a place of work.
And to gamesfreak - The rule means that you can't smoke within a certain radius of the place, not only within it's doors, so I don't think you'd be getting a wall of smoke that you had to penetrate.
I saw something about this on TV a while back, interviewing people in pubs in Ireland where the ban has already taken place. The staff said that when the ban was announced, a lot of regulars said they wouldn't come back if they couldn't smoke, but when it was actually introduced, pretty much all of them did anyway. I don't think it'll make much difference to bar popularity, and it'll hopefully make for a healthier nation. Although having said that, what with the problem of OAPs making up a larger and larger percentage of the population, you'd think the government wouldn't be too bothered about making the nation healthier...