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Started by maryanddavid, 30 March, 2004, 04:40:08 AM

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maryanddavid

as a social smoker, (and ex full time smoker)i am really fed up with this ban in r o ireland with the ban that has started in the pubs,no more smokies for me,ill have to start going across the border for my nights out!watch out uk,u could be next!
david

Generally Contrary

++u could be next!++

Hope so ;)

Floyd-the-k

yeah, sounds good to me!
   Move to Japan, where you can smoke almost anywhere except for miniscule non smoking zones in restaurants (the smoke, being unable to read signs, drifts into the non-smoking zones)
 

Dudley

I'm all in favour of it.

Signed

Strongly addicted smoker who's lost 2 non-smoking relatives to lung cancer so far

Matt Timson

I just hate stinking like shit when I walk out of a pub- even if I've only been in there for five minutes.  A ban suits me just fine.

Sorry.

:)
Pffft...

Bart Oliver

I am a smoker, though not heavy one- about 5-10 a day average.

I haven't got a problem with a smoking ban in public bars in general- a 5 yard walk to the nearest exit won't kill me, the cigs smerked outside probably will.

B.
Obviously you're not a golfer.

opaque

I don't smoke but surely another side to no smoking in pubs is that you can spend the money on booze instead? ;)

They'll be banning people lighting their farts in public next!

VampiraJen

sometimes i think i should smoke just to not be awkward, but then i remember that i hate it.  I hate the smell, i hate the feeling of my lungs and the inside of my nose being on fire whenever i breathe it, i hate the thought of what it's doing to my insides.  the new community hall being built over here is asking for votes on whether it should be a smoking or non smoking area.  my vote will be a definite non smoking.

esoteric ed

I suffer from Rihinitus... sneezing fits lasting for hours triggered by dust and smoke, these attacks are often triggered by smokers on the bus of a morning (which as they know isn't allowed) and have a knock on effect on my working day's output, it's not a pleasant condition to live with each day, but not that most people care.

I've no beef about smokers, each to their own poison, but when it's in my face without consideration I find it pretty ignorant,
thankfully my good friends who do smoke understand and know when to curb it.

Ed

Adrian Bamforth

"Strongly addicted smoker who's lost 2 non-smoking relatives to lung cancer so far"

JUST GIVE IT UP, MAN!

ADE

OldOne

"Strongly addicted smoker who's lost 2 non-smoking relatives to lung cancer so far"

Have to agree with Mr Bamforth here- just give it up... I know it sounds like the most obvious and patronising thing to say, but it really can be done, I promise! I gave up in December, truly believing that I simply couldn't ever do it. But I did- from 30 a day to none! After 10 years of smoking! And I live with a smoker!

Go get a copy of Easyway to Give Up Smoking and have a bash. Nothing to lose, right?

Ad

frazer

Bloody hell, ANOTHER one.

in the past few weeks i've had 3 completely seperate people reccomend this book to me...all of em confirmed smokers, all quit and been off em for a few years. I have the book, but I'm only 3 pages in...my vow is to read it one night after the current deadline is done.

so it works, eh?

Regarding the ban...well even when i was a non smoker i still supported the smokers rights to smoke in areas they had always been allowed (ie bars etc) so i kinda don't dig the ban. But what bugs me most is that this ban seems to suggest that although smoking is bad and kills folks, it's perfectly alright to drink more booze and in fact more people will be enticed into bars to do just that. In my experience drinking is a far worse social ill than cigarettes. Never seen a violent outbreak of thugs high on nicotine.

F

Satanist

As quite a heavy smoker (20-30 a day) I wouldnt mind a ban in pubs.I was in New York a few weeks back where the ban is in place and found I smoked much less cos it was freezin outside.It was also very social as I got to meet loads of people when we were all huddled outside for a quick fix.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

Dudley

I did Easyway last year.  It worked instantly, and I gave up with no withdrawal symptoms for eight months.  

Then various bad things happened around a family death, and I was kind of supporting everyone else for a while, to compensate I was smoking a bale of weed, the tobacco in the spliffs got me addicted again.  I am going to go back to Easyway, which as far as I am concerned is the only thing that works, when the feeling of disappointment in myself is past.

Funnily enough, I supported smokers' rights when I was a non-smoker (took it up when I was 21), because lifelong non-smokers tend not to really notice the smell and not to think too much about the health consequences.  It's usually smokers, ex-smokers and health professionals who are so concerned they fight for bans - which tells you something.

Matt Timson

"lifelong non-smokers tend not to really notice the smell".

Eh?  I'd have thought it was the other way round, surely?  Did you mean lifelong smokers?

Pffft...