I think this shows just how well this has been thought through;
If you smoke in an enclosed public place you can be fined.
If you refuse to pay the fine you can be taken to court.
If you STILL refuse to pay you can be sent to prison..... where you're allowed to smoke!
So, as punishment for smoking in a enclosed space you get sent to an enclosed space where you're allowed to smoke........ GENIUS!!
HAHAHA omg GENIUS!! I think I might just do that!! haha
> I think that the stopping smoking in bus shelters is totally stuid and pathetic though!! there are gaps at the top and bottom between the panels and the roof/floors, and also dont have proper doors! Gosh it makes me mad!!
> I think that the stopping smoking in bus shelters is totally stuid and pathetic though!! there are gaps at the top and bottom between the panels and the roof/floors, and also dont have proper doors! Gosh it makes me mad!!
/rant over :D
But should I have to stand there breathing in your disgusting habit?
I'm actually glad we finally have this ban, now that the only time I may have to breath smoke in would be if I'm around my friend's house and one of my friends is stood outside and I want to talk to him. (like I did last time I went around there)
I don't like the ban!
I was walking to college Monday and saw there was a "no smoking in this bus stop" sign on the bus stop by my college. Come Thursday walking home from college I noticed it had been ripped off and thrown on the floor.
Shows what people think of the ban, and that they won't change there habits for the government.
apparently the not smoking till your 18 thing is only being brought in for none current smokers.
so like if your 16 or 17 now and can PROVE you started smoking before the law came in you can still buy cigarettes.
i have no idea how they are going to ask for proof you smoked before though.
makes me laugh.,
There isnt a way that they can prove how long you have been smoking, as currently there is no legislation which makes it illegal at a certain age for you to start smoking. The legislation only covers the age which you are legally entitled to buy them. So you could say that you started at the age of 6, and it would not be against the law.
I also think (though I am not 100% sure) that unlike alcohol, it is not illegal to buy them on behalf of someone under the age of 16, though the shop can be prosecuted for selling them to an under 16.
As for the smoking ban, it's only the English which have been moaning about it. The Scots, Welsh, Northern Irish and Ireland have got on with it. As for me, I am a non smoker, but it is annoying now that each time I go to the Gamestation in town (it's several doors up from Wetherspoons) I have to cross the road, or face a corridor of smoke (this Wetherspoons doesnt have a garden or any outside space). Also, some of the people are semi drunk, and can be rude (I was there buying some Gamecube games yesterday and 2 men where shouting nasty comments about me.), which was not a problem before the ban.
Personally I am glad now, because before there was 2 choices before: either sit with the screaming brats, or where the brats have been, which meant that there was tons of food all over the floor, or where the smokers were, which meant that I had to breathe in smoke. Neither was very pleasant, so most of the time I found another pub. Now there is a brat free space in the pub, and I can taste the food/drink properly too.
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I've been burnt a few times due to dicks with ciggies lit in pits.
There's one band I've seen twice and the lead singers requests that no-one smokes in the pub his band are due to play in that night because it does something to his vocals/voice.
Smokers choose to smoke- so you choose to go outside, why complain about it. if you dont want to go outside the solution is simple - dont smoke or wait until your finished your food/drink etc. Im not really sympathetic for smokers, its your own faults you smoke at the end of teh day. i mean you hardly see junkies complaining they cant light up - or whatever it is called - in public (i realise thats extreme but im tired and frankly dont care)
to quote tracy from big brother - deal with it! whether you like it or not, the ban's here and theres nothing anyone can do about it, jsut take it as a chance to kickthat nasty habit! :)
(i mean no offence with tihs post, just a smoker annoyed me recently, so blame them!)
I'm not sure what to think about the smoking ban... I guess in some places it is good because you wouldnt want to take your children into an enclosed space full of smoke, But the pub is a social place where you have a drink and the tradition is you have a smoke.
But everything that was once routine is being taken away from us..
It's like you can't breathe without doing something wrong... Everything is laws and rules; When will it stop.
What will be next? They will ban alcohol?
*Shakes head* They should focus on the problems in Iraq not somebody lighting up in a public space.
This hungry Feeling from the pit of my stomach. Makes me feel in control.
Doesn't really affect me too much...
I never smoke inside anyway generally because there is not point in me going to pubs/clubs/bars and i don't smoke and eat so it wouldn't affect me at a restaurant.
Kinda sucks that I can't go to a gig and come home stinking of fags and be like "it was smoky!" but my parents probably know anyway.
Kinda annoyed about the raising the age thing but tbh it's probably for our own good.
By the time I get old enough to buy fags, I'll be too young again...
But I guess it doesn't stop us now so why it would in future I don't know.
I was talking to some kid yesterday who was 11/12 and wearing the teeniest drainpipes you have ever seen and was chain-smoking b&h blacks which both impressed and disturbed me...who regualarly gets served so why that law would make a difference I don't know.
Basically smoking ban in no way affects me.
surely pubs will be losing out, smokers wont go to pubs = emptier pubs = pubs no-one wants to go to.
would it not have been wiser to promote non-smoking pubs a little more?
i am a smoker, and fair enough, if smoking pisses people off then i won't smoke in front of them, but a lot of smokers are as stubborn as hell. i think this should have been thought through a little more, and allowed pub landlords to decide what happens in their business.
Pfft.
The smoking ban has been in effect for about five or so years here (Ireland).
I'm a smoker and have no problem going outside. Majority of pubs have a shelter anyway.
As for pubs losing money due to the smoking ban, bullshit!
You get used to it, it's not a big deal.
Standing outside wont kill you, smokes will (Y)
Pubs in the UK are going to lose allot of sells; It's obvious.. It could be chucking it down in rain so why would you want to go out and have a smoke and return soaked..
It can be good at it can be bad. I think in pubs you should be allowed to smoke but not in food places and such.
*Shrugs* Hmm
You may find it frustrating to start off with but it becomes routine i guess.
This hungry Feeling from the pit of my stomach. Makes me feel in control.
Went down to our same local this evening. Still a hard core of smokers lurking/loitering outside gasping away under the "tent", then going in for a drink, and then out again for yet another fag.
Good luck to them, if that's the way they want to live - but just wait until winter when the "behind the bike shed" situation won't be so cosy!
tbh the weather wont stop me going outside for a cigarette, at college we had to go outside and me and my friends would always be out there in the smoking area whatever the weather (we wouldnt be smoking all the time just though).
It's just annoying having to get up but I've worked out I can go and buy my drink, roll up (I smoke rollies) while drinking my drink, go outside for a cigarette, go to the loo if needs me, buy another pint and repeat the whole damned process again :P requires a little more planning and means I smoke less but really I'll end up not bothering to go to the pub so much and just stay home where I can smoke in my room.
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