Smoking ban UK

[m0ds]

Here's to those who smoke but who can no longer smoke in pubs & other work and public places in England & throughout the UK! Being a smoker, who could have constant ciggys behind the bar where I work, it is going to take some adapting too! Or, I could just quit I guess Anyone else? In theory now far more non-smokers will go to the pub. Although now will pubs smell more of sweat & BO?

Anyway, to celebrate, we made a smoking-ban movie for fun; Smoking Kills [12mins]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZ_5uVhsNk

plenty of scenes of mild wanton violence  :

So anyway, goodbye cigarette!

Hello health.

and talking of smoking, don't forget to smoke some crack!
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=31716.0

[LimpingFish]

We've had the ban for a while now. Smokers just stand outside the pub, and nobody seems to care anymore.

As a non-smoker, I find sitting in a pub without smoke far more enjoyable.

[Nikolas]

As a non-smoker, I find sitting in a pub without smoke far more enjoyable.

Having worked in Greece, at piano bars, and pub like places (playing piano again), I can honestly say that I miss the smell of the smoke, even if I had never smoked in my life.

[Meowster]

You know, I never particularly minded the smoke in pubs... I just hated the way it made my clothes and hair smell afterwards.

But I actually LOVE the smell of... and this'll make me sound weird... erm... you know when you're christmas shopping and it's raining, so you've got an umbrella, and it's getting dark so all the christmas lights are refecting and shining off the wet on the road, and everyone has bags of presents, and someone walks past with a cigarette and for some reason it smells different because I guess the air is wet, and cold, I dunno... but I love that smell.

And I don't smoke....

.... erm anyway.

[Phemar]

I always found it funny how people complain about other people giving them lung disease while they're sitting trying to get liver disease ...

[Hudders]

Anyone see a correlation between the smoking ban and all this rain we've been having? Looks like someone up there is getting His revenge on all the smokers that have to stand outside now.

[Erenan]

Rain in the UK? Who woulda thought?

[Hudders]

Rain in the UK? Who woulda thought?

It's been exceptionally rainy. Several people have died.

Thank you for your compassion.

[AGA]

I always found it funny how people complain about other people giving them lung disease while they're sitting trying to get liver disease ...

Those people are choosing to get liver disease though. See the difference?

[Erenan]

Thank you for your compassion.

Sorry, I forgot. It wasn't meant to be rude. But in my defense... were you also making a joke about the rain or not?

[Hudders]

Thank you for your compassion.

Sorry, I forgot. It wasn't meant to be rude. But in my defense... were you also making a joke about the rain or not?

Yes I was. Don't worry about it. 

[Chicky]

Pubs now smell of mold and urine. I'm serious without the smell of smoke to cover it up the locals round here smell horrible.

Maybe that's just Wiltshire though?

Heh, the local where we gig has set up a massive gazebo that connects to the side of the bar from the outside.

[Domino]

There is a smoking ban in New York State also. One day a couple of years ago, a friend and i were walking by some bars where i use to live. There were cigarette butts all over the ground. At least if you can smoke in a bar, you can use an ashtray. It was disgusting to see.

The last time i went to a bar, i was there to see a co-worker performing in his band. After every song, all the smokers were outside smoking and throwing their discarded cigarettes on the ground. Didn't seem like there was anybody that was gonna clean up that mess. Maybe these establishments should provide a place to put them.

I would write more, but i have a cigarette to light up. 

[LimpingFish]

Pubs here have little metal ashtray-box-things affixed to the outer walls.

Although, it seems smokers would rather let their deathsticks fall where they may, as most pubs also have a carpet of used smokeables on the footpath outside.

[Pet Terry]

We've had the ban for a short while in Finland. I don't smoke myself, but I don't mind people smoking around me, I'm used to cigarette smoke. I do like the fact that my clothes and hair don't smell of smoke anymore after a night out (but then again, it wouldn't matter much NOW because I got a washing machine recently). My favourite bar has had a small, separate room for smokers since the place was opened, and it has worked fine, I have never heard anyone complaining about it. Going there for the first time was definitely weird though, I had never been to a smokeless bar before. It took me a while to figure out what was missing.

There has been discussion about bars starting to smell of sweat, piss and crap after the ban, but I haven't noticed it myself. Perhaps I go to too fancy places?

Also, the day m0ds stops smoking is the day Hell freezes over!

[Becky]

I am enjoying not feeling my lungs seize up.

[Ashen]

I'm just back from the pub. I was there about 2 hours before I even realised "Oh, smoking ban in effect." There was really no difference - perhaps because they've been phasing smoking out for a couple of months anyway - but now I think about it, I don't reek of smoke like I usually do when I get back.

Non-smoker, by the way, so I'd usually only notice if people were actually breathing smoke into my face. (I'll have to see what the weekend nightbus is like...) Used to be pretty anti-smoking if I was with my nan, but for me I don't much care.

[Darth Mandarb]

I always love when this debate about smoking arises! (not that it's really arisen here)

I love hearing [some] smokers trying to explain how they have the right to smoke in public.  It just cracks me up.  But then again, I suppose if you're dumb enough to intentionally inhale poison into your body, I probably shouldn't expect you to be able to grasp the concept that you don't have the right to smoke around me.

If I'm at the table next to a smoker, and I'm not smoking, I'm having no effect on the smoker.  If that smoker is blowing smoke all over the place and forcing those around them to inhale it than (s)he IS effecting me (and others) and that's just rude.

Actually I find it embarassing for the whole human race that in this day and age people still smoke.  It boggles the mind.

In my opinion if you absolutely have to smoke (for whatever reason you might think makes sense) you should be made inconvenienced to step outside to a designated smoking zone where your cancerous activity slowly rots your lungs away and not mine.

Just my opinion.

Oh ... and I used to smoke.  So please don't use the "you don't know the addiction..." excuse

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Oh and m0ds ... nothin' but love.  You should quit smoking.  It's better for you

[voh]

Am I allowed to feel (slightly) offended that you somehow feel equating smoking to being dumb is valid?

[AGA]

Am I allowed to feel (slightly) offended that you somehow feel equating smoking to being dumb is valid?

Smokers aren't necessarily idiots, but you have to admit that starting smoking is a bit of a stupid thing to do?