total smoking ban

[batt22]

total smoking ban whats your view on this lads and lasses my own view is its a total disgrace yet another attack on the working class under a so called labour goverment unbelievable !!!! surley there is more important things to sort out like gun crime etc to think 70 ,80 even 90 year old men and women who like a pint and a smoke will have to go stand outside?

[sless]

only right aswell
why should i go into a pub and come home stinking of smoke
ireland has done it for a couple of years and your clothes are smoke free
disgusting habit

[mickthefish]

ive just quit so im pleased.

[batt22]

It will be fun to see them implement this in some of the Pub\'s and Club\'s around here

It will go down like a **** sarnie

[sless]

it wont be that hard at all

[mark]

I think their should be a total ban on pubs to go with it

[batt22]

and petrol fumes cough cough

[batt22]

\"Smoking could still be banned at outdoor locations that are “substantially enclosed�, such as football grounds and railway platforms. The details will be contained in regulations after a three-month consultation.

Smoking will still be allowed in the home and in places considered to be homes, such as prisons, care homes and hotels. But there are many tricky decisions to be made on exemptions, such as oil rigs, where smoking outside the workplace would be dangerous. No decision has yet been made on whether smoking will be banned in cars carrying passengers. \" lmfao oil rigs do these mps live in the real world

well just going to roll my last cig

[Marc]

I LOVE TABS ME

I\'ll smoke because I\'m addicted, hopefully if the government ban it and make it illigal, I\'ll get an allowance from them to pay for my habit.

[sless]

you only need a bit of will power

[marksworld]

its aload of old b***cks. what a mess there is going to be on the streets outside the pubs. my uncle lives in ireland and says there is more trouble outside the pubs now with the smokers standing outside the doors having a fag. also acording to the papers the ammount of people using pubs has dropped dy 10-15%. if the tourists didn\'t go there would be a bigger drop. i have the right to smoke where and when i want within reason. my choice, my life, not our nanny state goverments. i do however respect other people who dont smoke. i will not smoke in any house where the owners do not smoke and i wont smoke in non smoking restaraunts and places where smoking is prohibited. i cant see why they did not put the ban on in pubs which served food. also i think the goverment is tottally out of order. there are plenty free(houses) pubs in this country owned not by the brewry and definatley not by the goverment. the owners of these pubs should have there own choice wether to allow or not to allow smoking in there own pub, these people are self employed and its there own busines so they should have a say on what they want to do.
by the way i am a smoker but i dont smoke at work unless me dad and brother are p*ssing me off lol, but i do smoke when at home and in the pub . infact i would say i am quite a heavy smoker when out drinking. one good thing is if i can take me pint outside at least me drink will be kept cold lol.

\"whats going on\" we are losing our freedom . next comes I.D. cards and god knows what after that.


cheers
mark

[Edited on 15/2/2006 by marksworld]

[batt22]

well said mark this Gov. is hell bent on distorting our way of life why shouldn\'t i be allowed to open a bar for smokers only with a big sign on the door saying \"non smokers not welcome \" (see how they like it) id make a fortune beer would be cheaper with packed smokers lol if the bar was a great place and rocking i bet you non smokers would try to get in !!!!!!! tbh oh well roll on the next ban wonder whats next \"freedom \"

[marksworld]

goodun lol


cheers
mark

[batt22]

The imposition of the ban on public houses is one matter: their casual clientele may wish to be protected from the random effects of second-hand smoke. The ban on private members\' clubs is an even more disturbing step. The essence of such clubs is that they belong to a discrete group of private individuals who have always had the right to regulate their membership and to set its conditions. The state is now in effect taking away that right. Worst of all, though, is the precedent this sets for yet greater state control of our lives. What riles me is that as part of this government\'s manifesto the deal was a partial ban. They lied. Secondly that we, the British public have laid down, rolled over and allowed our liberty to be taken away.

[Marc]

one good thing is if i can take me pint outside at least me drink will be kept cold lol.

You can\'t though Mark, wasn\'t this one of the earlier bans they put in place, \'No drinking on public streets\'

It\'s not very often I go into pubs, It\'s going to be even less now,

Where we goning to hold the Nesa meetings now, any one have a large marquee and a big field, hang on a minute, this will be a public place as well.