England: - Total Smoking Ban on 1st July 2007.

[JonB]

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I for one cannot wait for this to be implemented! It will be amazing to be able to come home and the next day be able to slip on the same jeans I had on the night before because they won;t be tarnished will the absolutely horrendous smell of stale smoke. It will also make the course of this quitting lark I am still going through a lot more easier as well.

Roll on the 1st of July...
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[Misc]

What happens if you get caught smoking then? I don't smoke so i suppose it's good new for everyone. Less money to spend & better health.

[NSR Mick]

All the tight bastards are going to have to go and buy their own fags.
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[T1z3R]

speaking from scotland where this has been in place for a while you find that nightclubs/pubs etc now stink of sweaty gits instead of smoke and to be honest i think i prefered the smoke
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[froggeh]

I agree with it, but they should have allowed a separate well air-conditioned room for smokers.
I was out in Sweden earlier this year, which was non-smoking, and it is nice to be able to get up and chuck the same jeans and top on, that you only wore for a few hours the night before.

[JonB]

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[JonB]

Yeah but they cause no harm to any other person really.

Toby, I know you are only bitter cause you are a smoker yourself, but honestly I can't believe how little I realised I was ruining non smokers evenings just by being completely disrespectful to their right to breathe easily. In hindsight I actually feel very guilty for smoking in public, however at the time I couldn't give a damn cause it didn't seem to smell that much to me.

Smoking is bad for you and I don't understand why the majority have had to put up with the stench for so long and no matter what people say the ban is in and it's about bloody time.

As they say, ex-smokers are the worst.
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[froggeh]

[JonB]

Yeah but outside it is not half as bad, least there is still some good oxygen lying about somewhere. Chances of clothes smelling from being outside with smokers is quite a lot less.

One thing that has always bothered me about smoking and pubs in general is that Non Smoking areas always seem to be the furthest from the bar. Meaning you have to walk through the smoky bit to get a drink anyway. Doesn't make logical sense really.
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[froggeh]

[gixxersixx]

Why cant people be given the choice and have areas for smoking and non smoking. I'm not saying different areas of the same room but totally separate rooms if the facilities are available. Then if you wish to smoke you can go to the smoking room.
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[cagiva gezzer]

Why can't smokers just not breath out?
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[Tarmacsurfer]

It's a bit of a non-issue anyway. Smoking on the bus has been banned for years. I haven't noticed that stopping people. Smoking cannabis isn't exactly "legal", yet walk through most city centres and you'll find someone wandering around and having a toke. Sitting on almost any public transport in the west midlands is enough to get you high on secondary smoke alone (more hash smoked than cigarettes).

I really can't see it being rigorously enforced, it's just yet another piece of pointless legislature brought into being by opinion polls and single issue pressure groups.
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[Dom]

It should not be for the government to dictate whether or not private businesses choose to allow smoking on their property. This is a freedom of choice that's being removed and whilst this time around I'm not affected (don't smoke, never have) I wouldn't be at all surprised if I was the next time round.
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[bazza]

I'll just hang around outside while you non-smokers detonate through a surfeit of smugness.
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[techierob]

if they ban it, then I'm going to have to start smoking again. Nothing makes me want to spark up more than a no-smoking sign

[Annabella]

[gixxersixx]

just have a bar in the non smoking section, or have air blowers built into the bar to prevent smoke going behind the bar, I just think its about choice not having something forced on you. Every one knows the dangers of smoking, so if i choose to sit in the smoking area then thats up to me, but wouldnt expect anyone who doesnt smoke to enter or work in a smoking area
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[m99dws]

[Kickstart]

Hi

As a non smoker, I would prefer to put up with some fag smoke occasionally than have yet another ban inflicted on a group.

All the best

Keith
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[Paivi]

I'm all for a ban! I don't smoke and can't physically stand the smoke, in that even a short time makes my eyes water (great condition to be in for my ride home) and throat sore. Unfortunately, in my line of business, we're all supposed to go to the pub with the colleagues & bosses on Thursday nights, and as I can't, I'm a bit of an outsider at work and don't get the same information as my colleagues do.

My only concern about the ban is that everybody will gather right outside pubs and restaurants to smoke, so the pavements get congested and it won't be much fun going, or rather trying to go, through that throng.

[m99dws]