Smoking ban........

[lancashire lad]

as this place is viewed by the public

can i please ask members new and old to refrain from smoking while viewing , replying , adding messages on Accy web.

also please bare in mind that you should not smoke at least 1 hour before entering the accy web as the smell will linger


i thank you

[Mancie]

Prisons and Care Homes are exempt from the new ban...Ronnie Biggs must be happy!

[MargaretR]

Smoking of any kind is now illegal - so herbs and seaweed are banned too.
The definition of an enclosed space does include bus shelters if they have more than 2 sides.

[MargaretR]

Smokefree England - all about the smokefree legislation on 1st July 2007
Guidance on the law here

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Smoking of any kind is now illegal - so herbs and seaweed are banned too.
The definition of an enclosed space does include bus shelters if they have more than 2 sides.

Not according to http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20063368.htm it doesn’t.

Where did you get your signature quote from blazey? Or did you make it up?

[Less]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Prisons and Care Homes are exempt from the new ban...Ronnie Biggs must be happy!

Strange isn't? I remember reading that prisons would be exempt because it would interfere with the prisoners human rights, what the heck happened to my human rights? I haven't been found guilty of anything.

Perhaps what I need to do is get caught smoking in an enclosed public space, refuse to pay the fine, go to court, get sentenced and then I will have my smoking privileges returned to me.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Not according to http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20063368.htm it doesn’t.

Of course I didn't mean illegal -everywhere

[Lilly]

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There is talk that some councils are asking home owners and tenants to not light up at least one hour before an official or workman is due to attend and certainly not during the attendance and also to open the windows during that time. Asking now - making it the law tomorrow?


I was under the impression that you can't have a fag in your house now if you've got workmen in as it would be their workplace.

[magpie]

[quote=Lilly;442932]

Originally Posted by jambutty

There is talk that some councils are asking home owners and tenants to not light up at least one hour before an official or workman is due to attend and certainly not during the attendance and also to open the windows during that time. Asking now - making it the law tomorrow?


I was under the impression that you can't have a fag in your house now if you've got workmen in as it would be their workplace.

Being that this is a family forum, I wont type what I am thinking...

[Lilly]

[quote=magpie;442956]

Originally Posted by Lilly

Being that this is a family forum, I wont type what I am thinking...

I'm probably thinking the same as you.Put politely it's ludicrous isn't it?

[mothernature]

Maybe the next thing to be banned in public is eating certain foods as they can cause obesity. Tell you what, let's ban sweets, chocolates, fast food joints and anything made from animals. Oh and whilst we are at it can we also ban overpowering perfumes/aftershaves/deodorants. They don't half make me choke.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jambutty

The ban is no smoking in ENCLOSED public places panther. Too many people are twisting the legislation to mean just places where members of the public have access to. Like walking down the street or in parks etc.
I’m not saying you are wrong garinda, but where does that come from? To enclose an area means a wall all the way round and a roof. Or is this just another urban myth that is being put forward by the anti-smoking lobby to try and get bus shelters and the like included in the ban?

There is talk that some councils are asking home owners and tenants to not light up at least one hour before an official or workman is due to attend and certainly not during the attendance and also to open the windows during that time. Asking now - making it the law tomorrow?

As I understand it the ban only applies to tobacco products so in theory you could light up a fag made from cabbage leaves or fill your pipe with nettle leaves.

When the smoking in enclosed public spaces was first put forward by Labour they declared that private clubs, where members voted to allow smoking, and pubs, which do not serve prepared food would be exempt. Another Tony lie!

All I know is that the cafe owner can't allow people to smoke at the tables she has outside, in Accrington's Victorian Arcade, because it's classed as enclosed, and is open at both entrances.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Mancie

Prisons and Care Homes are exempt from the new ban...Ronnie Biggs must be happy!

This is not true staff cant smoke in care homes but residents can

[WillowTheWhisp]

That's mad isn't it? It's all in the same place so why can't staff smoke too?

As for that outdoor/indoor nonsense in the arcade that sounds a bit like some jobsworth taking things to extremes.

[Mick]

Well for the residents its classed as there home so they can smoke but to the staff its a work place so they cant smoke
its stupid i know and where Anne works he is not sorting a shelter out all he has done is screwed a ashtray to the wall outside.