Comments on: smoking ban?

By: reggie

reggie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:16:18 +0000

its rot ton in the beginning but you seem to smoke less in bad weather,and be home early yes open a pub in your garden but the neighbours might complain,we never win do we?

By: Lisa H

Lisa H — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:45:55 +0000

i am a non-smoker but in my opinion i think that in restaurants yes it definately should be banned as theres nothing worse than getting a mouthful of smoke with your food! Howver in the pubs, when i got to my local i expect there to be smokers, because i think thats what a pub is – somewhere to have a beer, play pool, chat and smoke! I also think that the smoking ban encourages people to drink on the streets which can pose a problem but as we all know the government knows best because they all lead everyday lives and are always themselves in the situations that they put the british public in! Sigh xx

By: Proud to Be english

Proud to Be english — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:15:22 +0000

In a way its wrong, but myself and family run a pub, and to be honest when its your own working environment it can get to you at times, but I see both sides and its wrong that our liberties are being taken away from us. Trade today was about the same so I didnt notice anybody staying away. Some of our regulars werent that happy about having to go outside to light up, but they come out for the company so I dont think it will affect trade.

By: davidmsmock

davidmsmock — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:42 +0000

I am all for the smoking ban. I mean, why should my lungs suffer because you don’t know how to take care of yourself? It’s not right.

By: olstar18

olstar18 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:09:05 +0000

I would like to address the ignorant bastards out there who think the smoking ban is a good thing. **** YOU!!!

There are a lot of pubs out there that catered specificaly to smokers and with these idiotic laws they can not run their business in the way they wish and their customers expect. And don’t tell me any garbage about cleaner air for everyone and not wanting to have to breath in someone elses smoke just get off your high horse and go to another ****in bar.

By: Grizley Bear

Grizley Bear — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:10:55 +0000

well as a non smoker i can now enjoy a nice quiet drink and something to eat in my local with my family without putting up with other peoples disgusting cigarette smoke

By: qphoenix_q

qphoenix_q — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:26:50 +0000

In the states, people who smoke tend to be less affluent, and poor people tend not to vote or contribute money. I’d be willing to bet that the cigar club to which Governor Schwarzenegger belongs in California is still in operation.

By: Roger R

Roger R — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:58:06 +0000

Unless you go to pubs, clubs and restaurants, the smoking ban is meaningless.
It is meaningless for my friends and family.
In Bournemouth the council have been attaching ashtrays to the waste-bins – does this mean we shall see council workers emptying them each day? Of course not. Instead we shall see piles of ***** on the ground underneath the ashtrays, waiting to be blown around in the wind. Lol.

By: da_muse327

da_muse327 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:36:26 +0000

when they came for the Jews i did nothing. cuz i wasn’t a Jew.

when they came for the blacks i did nothing cuz i am not black.

when they came for the *** , i did nothing cuz i am not ***…

when they came for me their was no one left to help….

you don’t smoke . that is a choice .. i did .. that was a choice

i understand that second- hand smoke needs to be an issue that get some serious action ( strong ventilation) i don’t know…. but when you start making people leave a bar to go have a cigarette in the alley .. you go against biblical and constitutional rules and the whole premise of a bar or pub. relax , come as you are, be who you who the heck you be.

well, Sally smokes and Fred doesn’t. Fred should stay the Hell away from Sally… and if the whole bar is full of Sally’s maybe “Fred ” who is ()))non smoking people who are bothered by smoke)))) should go to a different bar . maybe the Fred’s of the world should have their own bars …

just don’t ask the government to get rid of smokers from bar they belong there as much as you do….
think of ways to co-exist not how to tell some one else what to do..

how dare you Fred …

By: stephen k

stephen k — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:29:48 +0000

I am not a smoker and i am over here in the States.

HOWEVER it makes no sense to me. let me get this straight, OK?

I can go to the bar (or pub), drink poison, eat something that pretends to be food, engage in risky sexual behavior, potentially get my head busted open by a pool cue and you don’t want me to smoke as it’s a health risk?

No offense, isn’t that WHY you go to the bar?

I feel that we treat smokers with more contempt than child molesters. The proper thing to do would be to help wean them away from this noxious habit, not send the Smoker Stormtroopers after them to beat and pummel.