no smoking in pubs. - Page 2

Boeing Guy · 31-08-2009, 09:26

And heres some more really stupid statistics, nothing to do with smoking, but thats the point....

The average person eats 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime...

Women over 35 have a .5% chance of getting married

One hundred thousand dogs are killed each year falling out of pickup trucks

BERNADETTE · 31-08-2009, 09:30

I would have more respect for the ban on smokimg in public places if they banned the sale of cigarettes as well. If they were really concerned this would be the first move they made but hang on a minute what about the revunue they get each year from tax on tobacco sales? No they won't ban it completely because of the loss of revunue, a bit hypocritical IMO.

BERNADETTE · 31-08-2009, 09:32

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Originally Posted by flashy

i'm a smoker and it doesnt bother me having to go to the door to have a fag when i'm out, i go to the door at home to have one anyway

That is all good and well but now people are writing letters to newspapers complaining about smokers standing outside

Less · 31-08-2009, 09:39

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

Less, is that the best you can do.
Following on from your thinking.....

55% of all Aircraft accidents are pilot error, so I better quit then and all aircraft should be flown by computers.

100% of Smokers and on Smokers die.
The fact is that smoking is in a MINORITY in the Uk. Live with it.

Why live with it? Surely the sign of a caring society is not to state that smokers are a minority and therefore should just 'live with it', but to allow an alternative lifestyle for those that choose to live it, in another smoking thread I did say I wouldn't smoke where you're eating, why can't I and other smokers have somewhere comfortable that we can meet to enjoy each others company rather than have to sit by and watch the death Nell being rung out over the few decent pubs left?

jaysay · 31-08-2009, 09:47

It is no secret that I'm a none smoker, gave up 31 years ago, but to me the no smoking ban was like using a sledgehammer to crack an egg. what was wrong with having a designated smoking room with extraction fans (so the smoke didn't drift throughout the pub) then everybody's happy. As flashy said people are now complaining about smokers blocking the pavements outside pubs, this was not well thought out me thinks, I believe in live and let live, simples

cashman · 31-08-2009, 09:48

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Originally Posted by Less

Why live with it? Surely the sign of a caring society is not to state that smokers are a minority and therefore should just 'live with it', but to allow an alternative lifestyle for those that choose to live it, in another smoking thread I did say I wouldn't smoke where you're eating, why can't I and other smokers have somewhere comfortable that we can meet to enjoy each others company rather than have to sit by and watch the death Nell being rung out over the few decent pubs left?

many agreed with those comments on the last thread, as fer why you n others have somewhere comfortable to meet etc, never in 1000 yrs less wi the "I'm alright jack stuff you" mentality that was created 30 yrs ago.

Boeing Guy · 31-08-2009, 09:51

You really think this is a caring society.
I have no problem with there being some pubs just for smokers, assuming the staff all smoked. The problem is that some would use this a license to smoke where ever and when ever they wished.

I have said my piece, now I will take a back seat. I have nothing against anybody wishing to inhale lots of nasty chemicals, but please don't force me to.

mattylad · 31-08-2009, 10:30

Funny, but I'm sure that I posted a reply to this thread last night?

Has a mod removed my post for some reason?

jaysay · 31-08-2009, 10:44

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Originally Posted by mattylad

Funny, but I'm sure that I posted a reply to this thread last night?

Has a mod removed my post for some reason?

Take more water with it mattylad

cashman · 31-08-2009, 11:45

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Originally Posted by mattylad

Funny, but I'm sure that I posted a reply to this thread last night?

Has a mod removed my post for some reason?

i responded to yer post matty n thats gone as well.

Restless · 31-08-2009, 12:11

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Originally Posted by Less

What happened? In came the ban a large majority of smokers started drinking at home and to replace them? Nothing, the pub trade has been decimated because they have lost their regulars and their trade, the result of which is many pubs stopped trading as the hardship bit in.
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We smokers were forced outside, if we are lucky a bit of a shed for shelter as the dedicated smoking area and then we have to suffer the irony of a very few non smokers coming into this area on sunny days complaining about the smell of smoke, well Doh! you have the whole of the inside of the pub leave us this one little area in peace.

True what it has done to the pub trade, my dad for one does not go out anymore apart from once a fortnight when he meets with his brother.
But at best part of £3 per pint who wants to go out all the time, i for one cant afford it running a house is hard enough

mattylad · 31-08-2009, 16:42

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

And heres some more really stupid statistics, nothing to do with smoking, but thats the point....

The average person eats 8 spiders while asleep in their lifetime...

Tasty.. but not likely to lead to death.

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Women over 35 have a .5% chance of getting married

Still wont kill them.

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One hundred thousand dogs are killed each year falling out of pickup trucks

Not in the UK surely, where did you get your stats? I cant see there being enough pickup trucks in the UK to create a stat that big. Must be from the states.

Less · 31-08-2009, 17:09

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Originally Posted by mattylad

MICK!!!!

Whats going on?

I cant see any reasonable reason why those posts were removed, they were certainly not offensive etc.

Perhap's I can help?

I reported your post because you had abused how the original poster had talked about his experience, i.e. you changed the quote, you then got negative post's, mainly because hey, what the heck, we and by we, I mean the smokers are less aggressive than you non-smokers, we have nothing to gloat about, our lives have been ruined, no need to rub our faces into it!

So rather than have a long trail of abuse, (non-smokers versus smokers), I asked if your post could be removed.

Being a clever guy whoever removed it didn't leave the reactions that you had deliberately tried to provoke.

SO BLAME ME!

mattylad · 31-08-2009, 17:19

Well I think its pathetic, less aggressive my backside.

Your using really big shouty words there, thats aggressive.
Ask most smokers not to and they get aggressive.

I had not tried to provoke any reactions in any way, its is just your assumptions that think so.

And please do not for one minute think that because smoking has been banned in pubs etc for the past few years that you are hard done to, us non smokers have not been able to go to the pup for many more years because of the very reason that many smoked in there!

Your lives have not been ruined, they have in fact been extended because you will smoke less when in the pub.

Now stop gloating!

Less · 31-08-2009, 17:31

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Originally Posted by mattylad

Well I think its pathetic, less aggressive my backside.

Your using really big shouty words there, thats aggressive.
Ask most smokers not to and they get aggressive.

I had not tried to provoke any reactions in any way, its is just your assumptions that think so.

And please do not for one minute think that because smoking has been banned in pubs etc for the past few years that you are hard done to, us non smokers have not been able to go to the pup for many more years because of the very reason that many smoked in there!

Your lives have not been ruined, they have in fact been extended because you will smoke less when in the pub.

Now stop gloating!

Like I said non smokers for some reason get aggressive, you just proved it, I told you who did it and all you come back with is a severe moan, perhaps if you came outside with me and had a nice relaxing fag, you wouldn't be so uptight?

P.S. the word is Pub, not pup maybe you should come into one some time you will find how friendly we smokers really are?