TOT Smoking Ban 2007

In article ,
the dog from that film you saw
wrote:
smokers should be grateful they are allowed to smoke at all - it's a
privelige the government doesnt extend to users of cannabis, heroin or
cocaine.

But positively encourages the consumption of alcohol which in many ways is
more dangerous than the above.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article . com,
Mark Carver wrote:
Basingstoke is hardly a northern working class area where 50% of the
adult population smoke, is it?

No, you're right. I'm feeling better about my much maligned town
now :-)

I like Basingstoke. It has an excellent bypass.

Yea, the M3.

We've got a great outer ring road too, keeps all but the really determined out.


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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
the dog from that film you saw
wrote:
smokers should be grateful they are allowed to smoke at all - it's a
privelige the government doesnt extend to users of cannabis, heroin or
cocaine.

But positively encourages the consumption of alcohol which in many ways is
more dangerous than the above.


If someone invented alcohol today it would never be allowed - but it's too
ingrained in the population to do anything about now.
ideally it should simply be illegal to be drunk in public - if you have too
many down the pub catch a taxi straight home - have them waiting outside.
Have police on the street randomly breath testing, if you are in public
drunk get a £1000 instant fine. people would soon learn to drink
responsibly.



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DAB is the Betamax of digital radio wrote:

Phil Cook wrote:

I regularly go drinking
with a few workmates and there are only two of our group of about ten
that smoke. We don't all go at the same time but if we do go out we
end up in the smoking bar if we have a smoker with us.


People don't pick who they work with, but they do pick their friends, and
IMO smokers tend to be friends with other smokers - it goes back to school
days where smokers would tend to hang around with other smokers. It just
seems to be this way.

You really are talking a load of b*********. People don't select their
friends or drinking companions because of their smoking orientation.

I haven't picked the one and a half hundred who I work with but the
group I drink with are friends.

Come the ban
they will just take a little longer breaks when visiting the
facilities and they will go via outside to get there.

I'm talking about the smoking ban in pubs, and we'll now have to interrupt
what we're doing (and no doubt smokers will be the people that always have
to stand up in busy pubs because they'll lose their seats to the
non-smokers) to go outside for a facking cig. It's ridiculous.

I'm talking about stopping drinking to go to the loo. Perhaps we
should have urinals at the bar so we can carry on drinking whilst
peeing. :-)
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the dog from that film you saw wrote:
"DAB is the Betamax of digital radio" [email protected] wrote in message
...


well you see, what you should have done there is provide your
justification for smoking being legal when comparable drugs are not
- this is a discussion group after all.
simply calling someone a rude name doesnt help your argument in any
way.


There is no point in discussing anything with you considering the
things that you've come out with so far on this thread, such as the
patently absurd suggestion that smoking should actually be banned
full-stop. Furthermore, you don't seem to be able to use capital letters,
you
can't punctuate, you can't spell properly, and you seem to be a
general thicko as well



more names - nice.


Just the truth.



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the dog from that film you saw wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
the dog from that film you saw
wrote:
smokers should be grateful they are allowed to smoke at all - it's a
privelige the government doesnt extend to users of cannabis, heroin
or cocaine.

But positively encourages the consumption of alcohol which in many
ways is more dangerous than the above.


If someone invented alcohol today it would never be allowed - but
it's too ingrained in the population to do anything about now.


MY GOD, do you not see the massive hypocrisy in what you've just said?


ideally it should simply be illegal to be drunk in public - if you
have too many down the pub catch a taxi straight home - have them
waiting outside. Have police on the street randomly breath testing,
if you are in public drunk get a £1000 instant fine. people would
soon learn to drink responsibly.


You don't half come out with some crap.


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Phil Cook wrote:
DAB is the Betamax of digital radio wrote:

Phil Cook wrote:

I regularly go drinking
with a few workmates and there are only two of our group of about
ten that smoke. We don't all go at the same time but if we do go
out we end up in the smoking bar if we have a smoker with us.


People don't pick who they work with, but they do pick their
friends, and IMO smokers tend to be friends with other smokers - it
goes back to school days where smokers would tend to hang around
with other smokers. It just seems to be this way.

You really are talking a load of b*********. People don't select their
friends or drinking companions because of their smoking orientation.


That is *not* what I said. What I said was simply that smokers *tend to
have* friends who're also smokers - not that they choose their friends
because they smoke.




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In article ,
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
charles wrote:
our amateur theatre has now been no smoking for 18 months. We can now
get volunteers to work behind the bar. We also get a better rate from
our insurance company.

Surely most theatres and cinemas have been non smoking for years?

but only in the auditoria - not the 'refreshement' areas.

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DAB is the Betamax of digital radio wrote:
the dog from that film you saw wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
...
Now before you all flame me, I'm not a smoker and never have been,
but I find this unbelievable!

From the middle of this year, there will be a total ban on smoking in
public
places. No pubs or clubs can even have a smoking room for people who
fancy
a fag!



most smokers tend to be in total denial - they refuse to accept that
they are drug addicts.


So is everybody that wants a cup of tea or coffee in the morning to perk
themselves up, but somehow they don't have the same stigma.

Trust you to get the wrong end of the stick. No doubt you blame Ofcom
and Mark Thomas.

The law is about banning smoking in the workplace, perhaps that will
give you a clue.



as such they should be glad they can indulge their habit anywhere -


That has to be the most idiotic thing that's ever been said on Usenet,
surely?


they shouldnt be able to rub our noses in it anywhere.


You were going to get your no-smoking pubs, so you would've thought people
like yourself would be happy. But oh no, smoking pubs shouldn't be allowed
because the Nazis don't smoke.

Godwin

stevo wrote:
DAB is the Betamax of digital radio wrote:
the dog from that film you saw wrote:
"Steve" wrote in message
...
Now before you all flame me, I'm not a smoker and never have been,
but I find this unbelievable!

From the middle of this year, there will be a total ban on smoking
in public
places. No pubs or clubs can even have a smoking room for people
who fancy
a fag!



most smokers tend to be in total denial - they refuse to accept that
they are drug addicts.


So is everybody that wants a cup of tea or coffee in the morning to
perk themselves up, but somehow they don't have the same stigma.

Trust you to get the wrong end of the stick. No doubt you blame Ofcom
and Mark Thomas.

The law is about banning smoking in the workplace, perhaps that will
give you a clue.


Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, try reading what I said and what I was replying to -
it had nothing to do with what the smoking ban was about.

Trust you (whoever the hell you are, cos I have no idea) to get the wrong
end of the stick!!!



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