Smoking ban in pubs good or bad?

Don't care either way really

Although I still believe there should be a choice.

 

Don't think you grasped what I said.

Smokers (in general of which I am one) will put cigs in bins/ashtrays etc.

But when they are full of crisp packets/peanut bags etc (which normally 9 times out of ten are put their by NON smokers), then their is a fire risk when sticking your tab end in.

Oh and "get used to it"

I have, it doesn't bother me having to smoke outside, I am more concerned with all these do gooders saying pubs will thrive, well where the **** are they.

Oh and finally, I will smoke whenever I fecking well like, and no one will stop me. End of

 

aye, and it will be full of non smokers nt

 

Good

don't stink off second hand smoke when I've been out.</p>

&pound;2.30- &pound;3.00 a pintis why people have stopped going to the pub. Twelve cans of Carlsberg export... &pound;9 in Morrisons, three bottles of wine for &pound;10. It's maths to me.</p>

 

Good Good Good

I can enjoy a night out without some selfish wnkr blowing their carcinogenic fumes all over me....

The fact that a smoker inhales all that crap then holds the *** away from themselves used to make me laugh....

oh and dont fall for the "smoking ban has killed off the pub trade" chestnut....that would be the breweries charging £150 a barrell as opposed to the £10 boxes of ale at the supermarkets....

 

you'll not be sorry when your local shuts then

and as for £3 a pint, you got 2 much money, £1.55 in my local, have that

 

THEY HAVE STOPPED YOU
IN PUBS!!!!

 

There was plenty of cheap beer and wine before the smoking ban

Why didn't it effect pubs then?

 

No smoking in pubs is the bestest law ever passed nt

 

Very good imo

Hated the fact that when I did go to pubs I had to share their smoke. </p>

For the life in me I cannot see why at this day in age people still smoke. There have been endless campaigns to stop smoking - people know that smoking is a killer, yet they still do it! Some of the older end, fair enough. They were brought up to think smoking was GOOD for you, and in some cases the doctors even recommended certain patients to START smoking!! Some of these people despite trying their best, find it extremely hard to kick the habit. Any younger smoker though is just plain barmy knowing what it does to your body.</p>

Gerrartside and stay art. Pubs will make a comeback. When the smokers union decide that things won't change, and non-smoking pubs are here to stay, then things will improve. You cannot tell me that people only went to pubs because they could smoke inside.</p>

 

Bad

last weekend I was smoking in the beer garden but cause while its nice weather non smokers want to enjoythe outdoors so people were moaning. (dunno).</p>

Some pubs have closed around here , but some new ones have opened(fun pubs, pubs shouldn't be fun, they should have miserable people in them,sat at the bar, eyeing up the optics.</p>

The best/fairest solution I can come up with is have non-smoking pubs, in and out and also have pubs where you can smoke, then that gives everyone a choice. Also I'd have city/town center no smoking areas, then your little country pub, where an old boy has half while he reads the paper and smokes his pipe would still be able to keep ticking over.</p>

just my opinion. (blaze) </p>

 

I will, and I'll blame it on the maungy smokers. nt

 

It already was.

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The ban may be a factor but to blame the general slump on it is ludicrous. Without the other factors we may even have seen an upturn in trade as the majority of customers, the non-smokers, felt more inclined to go and sit in a pub.</p>

 

Also in the town centre too many pubs ?

it seemed that every time a shop closed a bar opened.

 

will I be sorry when my local shuts

not a bit of it.....much rather have a nice meal in a new pub than visit my local any day of the week

 

It's a bit of a farce when you think we are supposed ...

.... to be following the rest of europe with this ban, yet I've been to Barcelona and Prague in the last 2 months and everyone is smoking INSIDE the pubs in both cities. Ironically, we kept going outside for a *** cos it seemed weird sat inside smoking!

Simple answer - Pubs should be either 'smoking' pubs or 'non-smoking' pubs at the landlords discretion, at least then you know what to expect when you get inside - as for the back street pubs, can't see why they cant designate a sealed off room as a smoking area, the old 'tap room' scenario, at least that would save the old boys having to go outside for a *** in the middle of the winter when they are in there in an afternoon for a pint or two and a game of cards/dominos.

 

rubbish

pubs should be smoking or non smoking at the landlords descretion...

errr that would be every pub being smoking then....

also the non smoking areas....aye that worked when a restaurant was half and half.....not

 

That's the problem though

So many pubs have been ripped apart inside to make 1 big room

 

Spot on mate.

 

Re: Don't see why my taxes should go

to anyone who needs medical attention for any illnrss caused by leading anything but a totally risk free life. Why aren't dangerous sports freeks, fat soddened breakfast eaters and dozy twa*s who step out into the road penalised like smokers.

Smokers subsidise the healthcare of non smokers.