Smoking ban in pubs good or bad?

Still a few what you can smoke in? you just have to know which ones....

Aside from that it is for sure a bad decision made by the Government IMO'' in banning it....

 

Ban it from everywhere !

I can't do with all the moaning about it, pubs have never been cleaner, peoples clothes are cleaner and I can't do with smell.

 

Bad. Freedom of choice taken away.
They should have smoking areas inside pubs, this then gives people a choice

 

The problem with that though is that if you go in a group of say 4, and 1 is a smoker, most would go in the smokers room because the smoker was only going if he could smoke. Which left the other 3 in the same situation as at the very beginning.

**** the smokers. As Spartacus said above (quite rightly) you can't educate pork.

 

That was my opinion, just because you don't agree with it don't insinuate that i am thick

 

Good lass, you telled him good....

 

Not having some silly little man calling me thick.

 

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I've never smoked or considered it, so a serious question to smokers:

is it really hard to just spend about an hour at a time inside the pub drinking pints and then just popping out for a quick cig and then waiting maybe another hour or so?

If it's the smoking ban that is shutting the locals down, isn't that because smokers are throwing a tantrum and being stubborn by refusing to go to their local?
Surely if you're so bothered about your local staying open you'd still go there and could manage to go a while without a cig.

I think my overall point is that it shouldn't be the smoking ban that has affected business.

 

When I used to smoke, I found that I could easily treble the amount I smoked whilst drinking booze

I also found that the more I knew I couldn't have a ***, the more I would want one!

 

Not if non smokers avoid smokers nt

 

Good

Don't smoke never have do'nt see why I should have it forced on me

 

Ooops. Wrong place.

Another Nads impression.

 

Depends

You will never convince either side of this arguement so why try? Anyone comes to my house & doesn't like smoke can **** right off. BUT, if I go to their house, I wouldn't light up in their house either.

 

Great idea, helped me quit smoking, not touched a ciggy for a over a year and the urge that used to come back when a bit pissed in the pub, surrounded by smokers, has gone.

Surely all the smokers staying away from pubs in protest are the ones that are going to kill off their local?

 

RE: Not if non smokers avoid smokers nt

Now you've grasped the concept of the ban on smoking in public places.

 

Sorry to bring this up again but after seeing a post about seeing the choice of Freedom taken away.

Smokers are only seeing it from their side and refuse to look at it from the other side.

As a non smoker does that mean I cannot go to the pub for a night our with the boys because I want freedom of choice of not wanting to take in passive smoke?

So sorry if I don’t want the risks of Lung Cancer for something I don’t do myself, how selfish of me. I don’t mind been outside when people smoke but indoors it’s a completely different matter.

I went over to Dublin before the ban came out over here and straight away on a night out I realised how much better it was with the ban.

Smokers are part of the society when its one rule for them and other rules should be put in place for everyone else. As another post has said, what’s wrong with popping outside for a few mins every hour?

http://www.stopsmokingtoday.com/dync/13/Passive_Smoking.html

http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/secondhandsmoke/a/secondhandsmoke.htm

 

Good its a pleasure to breath and in the morning clothes no longer stink.

 

Better than the law to stop folk shagging kids?

You sick b'stard.