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Sweden?

The country with very little commercial hostelries, and the highest priced alcohol in the world, and the highest suicide rates?:p

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They don't need to go out, they are all too busy holding there own private parties at home ;)

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So the government brings in a blanket smoking ban, but allows extended drinking....I hesitate to say 24 hour drinking because it isn't.......so they swap one lethal habit for the population to indulge in the other.......and it is still a killer!..........No problem with paying out pensions if the youth of today booze themselves into oblivion........and the old folk freeze to death!

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A fella bought me a bottle of angel perfume n i really like the smell except its soo strong so much so i cant wear it (45 quid a bottle!:eek: ) but would rather have to put up with that than smoke,i really want to smack people who smoke round my lil' un....give yourself diseases n try n kill yourself but please dont do it to a baby who can't even walk away!
ABOUT TIME THEY DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT I SAY :not_ripe:

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Spud it was called the White Lion. It was at one time a good pub but went down hill faster than a bobslay team.

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I have never smoked and I don't intend to, and I don't have a problem with people smoking where I am, whether it is in pubs or restaurants it is fine by me. The people who do have a problem I find are mostly ex smokers who have quit and think they have an axe to grind, to these I say "get a life" if that is all they have to worry about then they are lucky, and the same goes for the namby pamby politicians who make these stupid laws and expect others (Landlords, Bar Staff, Waiters etc..) to enforce them.

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Fine, as long as you don't let your baby scream within my earshot.

Noise pollution drives me mad.:D

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i don't have a problem with smoking or not smoking its up yourselfs,what happened to freedom of choice and all that, and as for babys crying thats ok as well, we've all been babys at some time or other, ive had 3 of my own, and after all they are the only truley innocent voices that we ever hear, but have we all gone enforcement mad! whats the next enforcement, which side of the pavement to use depending on which direction were walking? will coughing in the street become a crime because were polluting the atmosphere how will they identify us will we have to wear big numbers on our backs? theres so many other serious and worrying events happening around us. will they have smoking wardens? hiding around corners just waiting to pounce and earn another brownie point!!! or will they expect the very people, who WILL suffer in lost revenue (the publicans) to report all smoking action....... i just think we've all gone barking mad and need to concentrate on the bigger problems in our society.....:)

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I don't want to get into an argument about the rights and wrongs of smoking, we have all been there and done that, at considerable length in other posts.

I really couldn't care less about the health of non-smokers who choose to work in premises where smoking takes place. How stupid is that? If they are that concerned over the consequences of sois-dissant passive smoking I connot easily imagine why any sane rational person would wish to put themselves at such risk? And as for poisoning babies with cigarette smoke - there are some who might look on that as something of a public service.

The thing that really concerns me about this is the gradual whittling away of the freedoms that were won, often at great cost, by previous generations, often for the most trivial and spurious of reasons by successive governments who are desperate to be seen to be doing something - anything to justify the enormous amounts of our money that they administer on our behalf.

I am greatly concerned that our government appears unwilling to regard any of us as having suffient maturity and independence of mind to be able to succesfully navigate the daily hazards of life without their regulating every nanosecond of of our experience of it.

If I have one message to give to the Honorable Members of Parliament it is this; keep your sticky noses out of things that need not concern you, pay the bills and shut the F**k up!

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my thoughts exactly

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Talking of freedoms fought for, we have a box sent to my great Grandfather, along with all the other Tommy's fighting at the front in WW1 at Christmas 1914, from Princess Mary.

'With thanks from a greatful Nation. Please find enclosed your cigarettes. Please only smoke in open trenches, so as not to bother your non-smoking brothers in arms.'

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that is beautiful ....you must be very proud,,,,:engsmil:

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Cheeky bleeders.

Just heard on the news that the Houses of Commons and Westminster will be exempt from the smoking ban because they fall under Royal Palaces, thus the MPs will still be able to have a fag in their bars.

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I don't suppose anyone expected anything else Rindy. It has crossed my mind, though...........should I fancy wandering around a palace, after paying the entrance fee, I'll be entitled to have a ciggie........happen not!

June x

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Good point, shall we try it??? ;)