General Chat

Why not have non-smoking/smoking rooms? Ultimately EVERYONE has a choice. I was in the pub last weekend in the pool (of the game not wet variety!) room. There were 14 smokers and 2 non-smokers in there and one of the non-smokers just went mad, threw his pool cue and stormed off because when he had started lecturing the smokers on how they were going to die they ignored him and carried on smoking anyway. Some people don't like it when people drink - simple solution don't go into pubs where people will be drinking. Some people don't like people eating animals - only dine out in vegetarian restaurants. We all have choice.

I think that in order to give a real choice there should be smoking and non-smoking pubs. There should be a sign on the door and people could then choose to go and smoke or not and people could choose whether or not to work there. Linda - I hope you win the lottery! Jack

Steph You dont have to stop smoking, some places will allow it as long as its not where food is consumed/bought. IE: If a pub has an ajoining resturant, smoking will be banned, but if the resturant part has its own door/enterance smoking is allowed (I think) E x

If Governments REALLY DID CARE (which they don't) they would have come up with a better way to prevent youth starting the habit in the first place (prevention is better than cure). People like me who are hooked on the weed would buy them in only licensed places like the way you buy drink. Some people wouldnt like that but if tobacco is so bad for you (we know it is)and the people with the habit are becoming more and more alienated then why not. Here you can only buy drink in Off Licenses and Pubs, Supermarkets have an Off License detatched away from the rest of the Shop. I find it very annoying that Cigarettes are still sold in sweet shops/newsagents and there always has been people behind these counters who will sell them to the young, if I had not been allowed to buy cigarettes at 12 years old(in those days 1 or 2 at a time), I wouldnt be a smoker today. It feels like they do not want to make it difficult to buy the product because of all the tax it generates. Oh and I never smoked in Restaurants, I like clean buses and trains, but do miss not being able to smoke while having a drink. Well that's my thoughts anyway. Pat x

Kiss my bum Paul! lol xx

what a great idea Paul

ive suggested this on another thread before but i have the solution. ban smoking in england and scotland but let them smoke in wales. that way all the smokers have their own smelly country to live in! see, easy!

YAY for linda! right, now im popping out for a cig! xxx

Dont get me wrong, theres nothn worse than smokers breath! thats why i always got chewin gum with me, but if your gonna stop people from smoking and stuff, why not stop other stuff aswell! xxx

because its very naughty stephanie! its not big and its not clever and it makes you smell funny! xx

I smoke but not during the day and not at work (not 100% happy with nipping of for fags when non-smokers don't). However, I work in a pub a couple of nights a week and the majority of drinkers in there smoke, as does the landlady. So if/when such a law comes into place it'll be ignored in many ways. We will probably have a room out the back where people can smoke to their hearts content.

NO!!!! Why should us smokers have to stop! Why dont they just have some pubs that dont allow it and some that do! The same with restaraunts and certain areas! x

i agree elaine we can stop people from harming others if we cknownly knows that it can harm them.unfortunetly drink drivers are harder to detectxxxx(:

dont sit in the smoking section then! lol....only messing! x

urgh! couldnt think of nothin worse than a sugar daddy from the legion! lol, i used to drink down Fords when we had no money! that was bad enough lol! all the oldies pinching my bum! lol xxx

By not allowing smoking in certain places, does not mean us non smokers are all for people getting drunk & drink driving. Two wrongs dont make a right. Drink driving has been cracked down on. Alough its impossible to catch all that do it. Breathing in cigarette smoke is not only unpleasant, but unhealthy. and there is nothing worse than someone lighting up while youre eating a meal . E x

rox with drink driving it is differcult to detect whether someone has been drinking but with smoking they can do something about itxxxxx(:

has been proven in some part of the country that banning smoking in public places has helped people to give the weed upxxxxxx(:

Office smoking rooms will even be affected although pubs which serve bought-in food such as sandwiches will escape the ban, as pubs and bars with membership cards. But smoking will be prohibited in bar areas everywhere. The proposed ban will be first introduced in government buildings, then workplaces. Pubs and restaurants will be affected last.

steph it's cheap boys.and sugar daddies!!!!xxxx(: