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Smoking in Pubs...

  • Thread starter R2B2
  • Start date

Should smoking be banned in pubs etc

  • Yes - It's indisputably a health hazard to everyone

    Votes: 103 71.0%
  • No - It's an individuals right to smoke in a public place

    Votes: 42 29.0%

  • Total voters
    145

bmwdumptruck

Come on you Hatters
Whilst at the rock and blues we took the bus into Ripley for some shopping. Stopped in a great pub in the square for a few beers (like you do), and a great Breakfast for ?2.50.

My mate goes outside for a fag for a little old lady to tell him he's breaking the law drinking in public!! So he stood in the doorway, one arm with fag outside, one arm with beer inside.

As a reformed smoker of quite a few years I really think this law is nuts. There's gotta be a way that some pubs can apply for this to be lifted to allow some to have smoking rights.

Or do we just have to accept yet another case of Human rights violation by what is now a non elected government.
 

mick the knife

Registered User
I was doing some work in a pub the other day and the landlord told me that the air freshner companys are doing research into a ciggy smoke fragrance. Apparently smokers and NON-smokers are complaining the pubs dont smell like pubs anymore,FFS
 
R

R2B2

Guest
We're in the middle of the nine day Monmouth Music Festival here and my brother has come down from Aberdeen to catch it all, so we've spent a good bit of time over the last few days and nights in Monmouth pubs and it's just GREAT for them to be smoke free for the first time ever! To come home and not have yer hair and clothes stinking of smoke is sooo good.

While I realise this is not only about the non smoker, how anybody can take anything other that positiveness from this move is beyond me! It's simply better for everyone, not only the non smoker, but particularly the pub staff, the landlord, the actual pub itself - and even the smokers. Some pubs smelled fecking horrible, now with routine cleaning this will naturally reverse over a short period of time.

If this act was about stopping people smoking then I would be the first to agree that it is wrong, nobody has the right to tell people what to do or not to do, but with all the will and understanding in the world I can't see how this call can be described as a human rights violation.... surely it is exactly the opposite, a victory for human rights AND common sense. Everybody benefits - there are no losers!

And I think the majority of smokers see it for what it is too as the predicted howls of protest and threats to boycott pubs has just not happened here in Monmouth, or in my brothers town in Scotland. I know people here in my town who smoke and they just nip out to have a fag, it doesn't seem to be a problem to them.
 

Pugwash

Been there, and had one
Club Sponsor
I completely agree. Even our local pub is non-smoking, and given the remoteness it's surprising! We turned up last weekend though and found out he was having a Beach Party evening. The give-away was one of the locals leaping from a pink car in a pink dress and pink hat and sprinting in the front pub door.

It's really nice to be able to get home and NOT have to change into a clean t-shirt immediately.
 

bmwdumptruck

Come on you Hatters
I think most people agree that smokers are a minority now.

Just rememer that having so successfully taken human rights away from one such group of 'minority's' they could just as easily pick on other such 'minority's'.

Anyody got any ideas as to who else they could target?

Just think about it.....
And don't just say it won't happen. Recent history is filling up with just such minority's. Hunting, smoking, what next?

Hugh
 

Pugwash

Been there, and had one
Club Sponsor
There never was a human right to pass smoke onto non-smokers though. b0x2
 

Oldbull

Registered User
I think they should ban bonfire night as well .. Im sick to death of passively inhaling all that smoke from the fireworks and fires.. The whole atmosphere is completely smog for at least a week.. When I get home from work I have to rush inside and put a clean tee shirt on as the smell of my clothes makes me feel sick..
Human beings should not be allowed to inflict such misery onto fellow human beings.. and especially on their kids.. The next thing you know they will be having them at the back of pubs, along with the other new craze thats sweeping the country 'passive smoking in beer gardens'...

BAN IT NOW Who or what gives these people the right to light such fires.. d34l

can we have a new poll please ...
 
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