will they ban the ban???

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Mancie

to say the demise of the local boozer is all because of the smoking ban is rubbish...I smoke and if I fancy a pint a smoking ban has never stopped me...in fact I don't know of anyone that has stopped going to the pub because they'd rather stay indoors and smoke!...it's not a very big factor in pubs closing.

It is quite a few degrees warmer where you are - which makes smoking outside less unpleasant

[Neil]

I have sat outside with the smokers at AccyWeb meets several times and I am not a smoker. It is nice to walk into a pub though and it not smell of fags. Its also nice to be able to go home afterwards and not smell of them. I know that is something that smokers probably don't notice, if you do you wont notice as much. Its a bit like walking into a stinky dodgy smell house, the owners don't often notice how stinky their house is.

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Well I'm a none smoker so it didn't effect me, but I didn't mind other people smoking so long as they weren't lowing smoke in my face. I've just heard that the ale at my favourite watering hole has just gone up about 15p, looks like Stella from ASDA is still the best bet. as for lifting the smoking ban, since when did this poxy government hold their hands up and say they made a mistake, they just blame the ban on every body but themselves

ah well this time next year there is likely to be a Tory Government and they can revoke the ban... will they be a "poxy" government if they don't revoke?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Mancie

ah well this time next year there is likely to be a Tory Government and they can revoke the ban... will they be a "poxy" government if they don't revoke?

That will depend on how many tory MPs are big share holders in breweries and tobacco companies.

[Mancie]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

That will depend on how many tory MPs are big share holders in breweries and tobacco companies.

well our ex-prime minister thatcher and her minister ken clarke are big shareholders in tobacco...but then Mr Cameron is the leader of the new Tory party and the grass will be greener and we will all live in paradise!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

well our ex-prime minister thatcher and her minister ken clarke are big shareholders in tobacco...but then Mr Cameron is the leader of the new Tory party and the grass will be greener and we will all live in paradise!

Shows your learning Mancie, its always better where the Tories are

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Mancie

well our ex-prime minister thatcher and her minister ken clarke are big shareholders in tobacco...but then Mr Cameron is the leader of the new Tory party and the grass will be greener and we will all live in paradise!

ahh but hes a fake greenie

he cycles to work and has a car follow him with his papers so publicly he will stand for the smoking ban but abolish it and claim he had no knowlege of it happening until an email gets leaked saying different

i think thats how polotics works anyway

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Mancie

ah well this time next year there is likely to be a Tory Government and they can revoke the ban... will they be a "poxy" government if they don't revoke?

If the next Toy Government were to rescind all the nonsense legislation passed by this shower they'd being spinning, I think there will be far more important things to do like finding out how to repay the £2 Trillion debt run up by Incapability Brown and his useless Little Darling

[katex]

Not quite sure if I approve of this :-

‘No cigs’ plea to Accrington school parents (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Even if the mothers who smoke at the school gates are shamed into not smoking there, they will only light up once they get in the car. Think also is encouraging a type of vigilante society and possible 'controversy' between the kids whose parents don't smoke and those who do.

They'll have signs 'advising' about 4 x 4's, obesity and alcohol soon.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by katex

Not quite sure if I approve of this

Well if the parents smoke in the car or house with the kids present they obviously don't care about the health of their children. Maybe by trying to shame them like this it may help keep the kids smoke free.

I agree that kids from smoke free homes are less likely to become smokers than from homes with smoking parents.

[katex]

Originally Posted by Neil

Well if the parents smoke in the car or house with the kids present they obviously don't care about the health of their children. Maybe by trying to shame them like this it may help keep the kids smoke free.

I agree that kids from smoke free homes are less likely to become smokers than from homes with smoking parents.

I don't disagree with you Neil .. but that was not my point. Don't think it is the right way to go about it. They are not doing anything illegal. They'll have the kids parading outside smokers' houses next with banners before we know it, which in the extreme, could lead to throwing bricks through their windows.

[Mick]

They have lifted the smoking ban in the Railway..................Well Lynx thinks they have
We where sat in the Railway yesterday that's me,less,beniepete,tony and lynx
we all started rolling a cig ready to go outside and chatting away when suddenly there was the the smell of cigarette smoke and there was lynx happily smoking away until she was reminded you should have seen the look on her face

[derekgas]

A teacher from mount carmel parks outside of my house every day, she pops up and sits in the car to have a smoke, presumably because she isnt allowed to smoke in the school grounds, I dont see Mt Carmel putting a banner outside my house to tell her to bog off elswhere, she has paid her road tax, so if for that reason she can park there and smoke, then what business is it of the schools if parents smoke outside school grounds?