Fags out.

l'm suprised at how many of us are smokers in here!
You do feel a social outcast nowadays, perhaps quite rightly. Even in a cafe were smoking is permited, l do feel guilty and never enjoy it unless all the other tables around me are puffing away as well.
Right thats 21 drinks and 14 rainmates, l'll get 'em in then.
 
garinda said:
l'm suprised at how many of us are smokers in here!
You do feel a social outcast nowadays, perhaps quite rightly. Even in a cafe were smoking is permited, l do feel guilty and never enjoy it unless all the other tables around me are puffing away as well.
Right thats 21 drinks and 14 rainmates, l'll get 'em in then.
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Don't forget to fasten the tables an chairs down, oh an I prefer a large brolly :D
 
As a non-smoker I don't enjoy eating a meal in a restaurant if smoke is wafting over from elsewhere. It spoils the food.

It's a bit different where pubs are concerned. I don't find it as off putting in that context although I don't really enjoy the smell of stale smoke that I wake up with the next morning. It sticks to my clothes and hair.
 
good ime fed up of all these feeloaders inhaling my smoke for free when i got to pay for my ciggies :D


i am curently in the process of giving up but even when i was a 40 a day smoker it pi$$ed me off when other people smoked when i was eating

smoking in bars should not be banned they should be made to install air conditioning

theres currently a no smokling bar if i am correct , used to be called millers a long time back near the railway station

smoking in bars has been there for years so if you dont like it seek alternatives

how far exactly are europe going to go with this ...?

are the famouse pub dog pictures going to have the cigretts removed from their mouths
 
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They have had this system in NZ since about 2003 and it works quite well. Smokers tend to go to the designated smoking area outside the pub/restaurant. There are ashtrays and usually some form of shelter provided. However, the weather is usually warmer than ours, although it can rain a lot..:( I'll miss my fag with my drink in the pub, but I will probably smoke less if I have to keep getting up to go outside. That's one more mac for you to get Garinda.:D
 
chav1 said:
smoking in bars should not be banned they should be made to install air conditioning
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That won't solve the problem; it will just give the illusion that it will.

All air con does is recirculate the air. I heard that in places where air conditioning is installed, people were off sick more because the germs were circulated everywhere, so everyone was at risk of infection.
 
vorlon24 said:
That won't solve the problem; it will just give the illusion that it will.

All air con does is recirculate the air. I heard that in places where air conditioning is installed, people were off sick more because the germs were circulated everywhere, so everyone was at risk of infection.
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That's true, for the smoke thing you need smoke eaters (trade name, before there are any witty comments)very effective, but not a cheap item.
 
:o suppose youd better get me a mac too, you cant have a pint bout a ciggie if your a smoker :rolleyes:
 
The weather does come into all of this. l respect non-smoking friends who prefer l smoke outside their houses. However l don't go to stay with my best friends in Scotland much anymore, especially in the winter.
P.s. A 'rainmate' is something you don't see much anymore. lt was popular with ladies who'd just had a 'set'. lt was an unattractive plastic hood that came in a little case the size of a condom. l'm working on new designs for when the bans imposed. Leaves both hands free, for suppin' and faggin', thus you won't need your large brolly!
 
garinda said:
P.s. A 'rainmate' is something you don't see much anymore. lt was popular with ladies who'd just had a 'set'. lt was an unattractive plastic hood that came in a little case QUOTE]
Ah...........mi gran used to wear one o them:D
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Don't waste the money getting me a rainmate, just buy me an extra pint, I reckon the smell of me drying off in the pub after getting soaked whilst having a fag will make 'em prefer the aroma of ciggies!
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I think where possible pubs should have separate no-smoking areas.

Whoever thinks it works in Dublin obviously hasn't read about the boatloads of Micks coming over to Holyhead for their night out! - or the publican who has bought a double decker bus and parked it outside the pub for his smoking clientele.

Do tell me though, if smoking is banned generally and everyone gives up, how we work out the economics -

There are reckoned to be 12 million smokers in this country.
The tax on 20 cigarettes is over £2 (yes, chokes you, dunnit)
If each smoker smokes, on average, 20 cigarettes a day .....

that is £2 x 12 million every day going into the Exchequer from smokers, i.e. £24 MILLION A DAY.

That makes £8,736,000,000 every year, by my reckoning.

Where is Gordon Brown going to find that, then?

Bugger standing outside, everyone round my place, bring a few cans, or we'll club together and buy a barrel! - non-smokers who prefer to can drink in the back bedroom.
 
pendy, top arithmatic.
i couldn't be arsed working it out but iknew it would be a lot.
where would all the revenue come from? perhaps we should tax smiling and should we frown lets tax that too.
reminds me of the taxman by the beatles..... but so i digress. i like to smoke. i agree about food outlets but pubs? no way .
as sage noel gallagher once said, " all i need are cigarettes and alcohol"
 
wasnt there something in the paper about Wetherspoons profits being down by a fifth since Tim Martin announced they were going to start the smoking ban early? i run a club and 99per cent of the cudtomers smoke so hope it doesnt come in, its a dying trade anyway, might as well let the customers choose to die of alcholism or cancer themselves, they are all adults after all!
 
I hate going to pubs, as a non smoker myself i find it very unpleasent to breath in cigarette smoke.I won't allow smoking in my house.

And as a smoker i will agree with you totally on that.Your house is a private thing.I smoke in my house but do not smoke in anybody elses unless i am allowed to.
However i do not agree with all this non smokers.
As an example i am a smoker and overweight.I should be a bigger risk for sickness to any company.However from persanol experience i find the skinny non smokers have had 600% more sick days than i have had in the last 10 years.
 
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