I smoked up until 9 months ago, The smoking ban in pubs never bothered me as I have 2 young kids, so smoked outside at home so smoking outside in a pub i could live with, it also meant I smoked a hell of a lot less and got into less arguments over smoking in pubs. These days I dont go out a lot at all just for the fact that alcohol is just so expensive in a pub, I am a Guinness drinker when out, and I can knock back a few, but £3.00 a pint maybe even more now, is just silly, £12 an hour, £60 a night (what i used to spend a week on cigs). I bought 36 cans of stella (which costs a bit in pubs as well) from the supermarket for £22 a week ago i still have 30 left (so I am not an alchy by any means I just cant go out and drink 2-3 pints. never have, never will). I am pleased smoking has been banned from public transport and eating places though, nothing worse than sitting on a bus and someone sparks up and that was even when i used to smoke, or you are eating and someone does it but funnily enough i hate the smell of disinfectant, if I am eating and they start washing the floors etc, I feel like throwing up its worse than smoking for me.
funny that mate as a crate of heiniken at 6 % by volume over here costs 8. 90 euro with 4 euro back on the crate when returned thats 4.90 euro for 24 bottles cant grumble and a liter and a half of of red lable is 23.99 euro cracking DIRK 111 is immense, if you ever come over here look for a DIRK 111 its cheaper than the duty free and cigs. im paying 25 euro for LM blue a sleeve 200 ***s,bout 18 quid, ill end up smoking and drinking myself to oblivion
The thing is Cest I have never had any problem with your rights as a none smoker. What about my rights? Why can't I have a smoking club or pub? No one would be forcing you or other none smokers to enter! The smoking ban is killing pubs they are closing daily, that is fact! I know which pub would be bouncing between a smoking and none smoking. And it wouldn't just be smokers packing the place. Has anyone else noticed the bad smells in pubs now the smoke isn't masking it? Just what I want, the smell of some dirty twats BO overpowering the smell of beer.
Non smokers rights being inflicted V Smokers rights inflicted. Oh come on. Bad smells V Bad smells + emphysema.
You have every right to smoke in pubs so long as my rights not to inhale your filth; have my clothes ruined and my health effected isn't infringed either. You see my standing in a pub not smoking DOESN'T harm your health but you standing there smoking DOES effect me. Pubs have been on the decline for years and pubs have always closed. In my town, more pubs have OPENED since the ban than have closed. Pubs that struggle are too expensive and usually **** holes who don't invest in their punters. Bringing back smoking will kill off the industry totally and lead to multiple law suits against breweries and pubs for health related illnesses for staff and punters alike and rightly so. Your 5 or 10 mins in a smoking shelter outside a pub every hour or so, is a very small price to pay for both mine and millions of other non smoking sufferers future health. Smokers always talk about their rights but never the rights of non smokers not to inhale their ****. In many smokers minds, its always the non smoker that should feck off and not go into the pub, so the smoker can selfishly enjoy polluting the **** out of the world at his or her free will. I've suffered for some 27 years or so in stinking smoke filled pubs and now its a joy to be free from it. You will find little sympathy from me that you now have to go outside to smoke mate, just like smokers haven't given a **** about me for all that time.
So as I smoke I have no rights? There was absolutely no reason none smoking pubs couldn't have been around for years. You could have even opened your own! I would have had no problem with that. Same as I'm saying I should have the right to go to a pub that does allow smokers. You say more pubs are opening since the ban? And they were already on the decline? I find that hard to believe as the evidence points to the exact opposite. Or are you talking about someone reopening a pub that closed down when the ban kicked in? I have friends in the trade and even the ones making a living are struggling to keep their heads above water.
You're such are typical smoker mate with typical smokers arguments. You only have one set of views. I'm not going to argue, or fall pout with over it kidda, as we will NEVER agree on this so I'm not making anymore comments
I do agree with MR here but how do you police it (wrong word but...) 20 pubs in a town, 3 are smoking pubs 17 are not the 3 will be packed and bring in lots of cash, the 17 will be sparse and wont. 20 pubs in a town, 17 smoking and 3 none smoking, the 3 none smoking will be packed the 17 smoking will be sparse. the sparse ones will change their rules to get on the good/profit side but then it will go 17-3 the other way 3 will be packed 17 sparse. + my wife smokes so i will probably end up in the smoking pubs anyway, I have had a few cans tonight and I am dieing for a cig, but if i have 1 i know that will be me hooked again, but i can stand with a bunch of smokers and not be bothered 1 bit its just the alcohol. The one thing i hated when i was a smoker were none smoking signs so i do know where MR is coming from, but saying that the best thing i have ever done was to stop (and hopefully stay quit but that is easier said than done).
Sorry mate the only one getting personal was you! I have stated from the outset that I agree none smokers have rights and shouldn't have to put up with me smoking. But by the same token I wasn't dragging people in off the streets to put up with all my filth as you put it! They were making the decision to enter a pub or club where they knew people would be smoking. They still had a choice. They chose to put up with the filth to join friends and family who were smoking and drinking. To then whinge about it after the fact is laughable. No one forced them to do it.
Pleased for you managing to stop mate. I know from friends and family how hard they have found it. Smoking hasn't impacted my health in any way and I have no intention of stopping something I enjoy. Wait till the PC brigade start on alcohol, I wonder how many of the declining pubs will survive selling lemonade.
Green house gases, CFCs, unprotected sex, Nazi ghosts, basketball and Team Rocket are also to blame for pubs closing.
Won't be long before pubs are re-cycled with separate rooms named bar, smoke-room, lounge thus giving the customer a choice of where to socialise. This could be a brilliant return to the 40s and 50s. Solved.
I think it all really stems from the fact that smoking is a privilege, not a right. With this in mind, it is easy to construct laws against it. Most of my life, I grew up around a serial smoker (my mum) and it was foul. I must have been about 19 when the smoking ban kicked in so only drank in smoking bars for 1 year (it may be more but you never know who is policing these sites ). The change was instant. I hated being anywhere near a smoker while trying to enjoy my pint. The new law meant I could enjoy my drink, watch the match and not come home reeking of ***s. With all that in mind and the fact my mindset is the same as other non smokers (and most likely campaigners and politicians who do not smoke) a law against it was always coming thus smoking outside. If you really are dead set against it, fight it or stop smoking. My mum quit.
Aye ignore FACTS and make stuff up, that's the way forward. I don't see why we can't go back to the old ways mate. After all we are talking about choice. If people don't want to be near smokers don't go where they are. The zealots are already starting on alcohol mate. How long before they are lobbying and trying to stop YOU doing something you enjoy? Look what happened in the USA when they tried it. They issued in the age of the gangsters. Where will it stop? I can see us all driving electric cars and there will still be people trying to stop them because of what they see as pollution in manufacturing and running them.
Well I agree now I'm back on them although to a certain extent I find it quite social someking outside as I've spoken to people smoking who I never would normally and pulled a bird outside more than once
Do smokers know how much they smell and that when they smoke in public places, we all get to smell rancid as well......I would suggest that they all be made to wear hooded cloaks and ring hand bells(like leapers have always done!)- unclean, unclean. Lets not forget that the vast majority of people don't smoke...lets be democratic about this please, if you want to be social...obey the rules, if you want a smoke and a beer, go to the offy and stay at home, where you can kill yourself and yours, without killing everyone else who wants to socialize.
If there were smoking and non smoking bars, the smoking bars would be packed, including non smokers, and the non smoking bars would have a handful of non smokers whining that the smokers were all in the smoking bars. We should have the choice, it is that simple, but we don't so **** it! Personally, I quite like smoking outside, have always done it in my own home anyway so was no biggie for me, also, I have done some of my best pulling whilst outside having a snout, not to be underestimated!
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. This is not about smokers rights, or non-smokers rights. This is about PROPERTY rights. The bottom line is this. WHO IS ANYONE OR ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY TO HAVE THE AUDACITY TO TELL ME, OR ANYONE, WHAT THEY CAN DO IN THEIR OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY WHEN IT DOES NOT AFFECT ANYONE WHO DOES NOT CHOOSE TO GO THERE? You do not have a right to a smoke free bar. You do not have a right to a smoke free McDonald's. If you want it build it. If there is a demand for it then it will come which is how the free market works. This is not the end. This is not the beginning either. It is another stop in the ongoing campaign to turn the entire country into a nanny state. It is not right. It is not fair. It is more government intrusion into our private lives and into private enterprise. It is an attack on civil liberties and people are too blind to see it. WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? Are Happy Meals being banned next? Perhaps no salt? No drinks over 16 ounces? Last I checked, heart disease IS the number one killer so why would it be far fetched to go there? When will this government control reach the home? When is the government going to tell me I can't fry my potatoes in a certain oil in my own kitchen because it's unhealthy? Yes, the people will adjust all right. But this smoking ban is NOT a good thing. Rant over!
