Smoking ban in public places

Post by **Daniel** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:47 pm

The British parliament has voted to ban smoking in all pubs, not just those not serving food.

Details at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4709258.stm

I think this is a tremendous step forward. This might in time make pubs a more attractive prospect. What does everyone else think?

fuzzy · Post by **fuzzy** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:54 pm

I absolutely agree with the ban

; if ppl want to give themseleves cnacer, fine by me; just dont tar my lungs too.

Rosel · Post by **Rosel** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:18 pm

i think it's a good thing. i hate coming back from a night out smelling of smoke.

Post by **Daniel** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:25 pm

It's not just that; you can walk into a pub for a couple of minutes, discuss with your friends briefly whether to stay, decide not to, walk out, and *still* stink of cigs! I will be so happy to see the back of smoky pubs and anywhere else for that matter! Progress at last.

rhubarb_crumble · Post by **rhubarb_crumble** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 4:56 pm

I fully agree with the ban! I hope that it will make thousands of smokers give up as predicted.

Post by **Daniel** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:04 pm

That's a good point actually. Currently smoking is associated with socialising and being sociable. In doing so it legitimises the addiction and even gives it a status of acceptability it certainly doesn't deserve. Once it's outlawed the cold, unfriendly outdoors it may suddenly seem a good deal less appealing, not least to the younger generation who might potentially start.

Does anyone know when the law is likely to come into force?

keiraknightleyfan27 · Post by **keiraknightleyfan27** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:58 pm

fuzzy wrote:I absolutely agree with the ban ; if ppl want to give themseleves cnacer, fine by me; just dont tar my lungs too.

They are trying to ban restaurant smoking in Chicago. I hope it happens there because that way when I go to Hard Rock Cafe or something and we are trying to sit in the non-smoking, but we are really quite close to the smoking, then there will be no smoking there at all! I don't want cancer!

Post by **Daniel** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 5:25 pm

I hear the smoking ban in England is coming into force in summer 2007. The sooner the better I say!

Ruth · Post by **Ruth** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:13 pm

I'm going out tonight Hooray ( doesn't happen that much these days) and we're going to a wetherspoons pub that is no smoking on purpose!! aren't we grown up. that way we wont smell like ashtrays when we get home and best of all I will resist the craving..

I used to smoke in my rebellious youth and then grew up and thought hang on this is disgusting and it's killing me. Unfortunately nicotine has left it's scars on my pysche and when drunk in a pib with a pint in one hand I sometimes crave a fag in the pther. worse still is sometimes I give in and scrounge a roll up. I haven't at all this year yet and I only had about 10 all year last year. I swear sometimes I forget i don't smoke anymore(it's been 10 years) hhorah joys of dyspraxia!

Anyway I'm only avoiding getting back to my essay lol

Liz944 · Post by **Liz944** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:23 pm

The smoking ban is just....

A smoker will smoke one cigarette, but non-smokers who inhale his/her smoke passively will inhale the equivalent of 600 cigarettes as there is no filter to remove most of the particles and this will cause lung damage in the long term...

david456 · Post by **david456** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:57 pm

They are non smoking betting shops, being set up next door to smoking ones now!

The thing with smoking, is that it affects other people. I went to a bar tonight and now I smell of cigerette smoke. I don't want to smoke, so I don't so I don't see why I should breath in other people's. I haven't heard one good arguement, saying why smoking should be allowed.

What people do in their own homes is up to them, but they shouldn't smoke around children.
I will certainly be prepared to visit more pubs where you can see the bar rather than a haze of smoke.
I really can't understand young people starting to smoke. There's nothing cool about it at all and we all know the dangers unlike 50 years ago.

Post by **Daniel** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:55 pm

I quite agree David, although lots of people do things I don't understand, lol! Such is human nature.

I was up in bonnie Scotland last week and spent some hours in a pub. On getting back to where I was staying my instinctive reaction was to get all my clothes stuffed away in the dirty laundry bag as having been in a pub I figured they'd stink of cigs. However I was in Scotland where there's already a smoking ban so my clothes didn't smell like an ashtray but were perfectly fine and serviceable for another day. It was great, the pub was well patronised and aside from the lack of the cigarette smoke and pong it was just like any other pub. I am so looking forward to this ban coming into force. In the meantime lots of boozy trips north of the border are called for! lol!

Snjstar · Post by **Snjstar** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:09 pm

I know of a pub in North West London that went smoke free a couple of weeks ago. Anyone who wants details PM me.

Liz944 · Post by **Liz944** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:46 pm

Once I am qualified as an EHO I am probably can to have to enforce the ban... not sure how well thats going to go.... oh well... will have to wait and see what happens...

Walltowall · Post by **Walltowall** » Sun May 28, 2006 3:35 pm