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The Smoking Ban comes into affect on July 1st 2007.
What are you thoughts on this?
What are you thoughts on this?
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I think from the 1st July the smokers will be polluting all the lovely summer air, just outside the doors of all the pubs. Eventually discarded butt ends will form a heap so high that the pub doors won�t be able to open.
For me personally it can�t come soon enough. I am not anti-smoking as such but I do object to second hand exhaled air blown in my face, or just floating like a mist around the room in which I am breathing. I don�t mind people drinking either, provided they are not spilling it all over me, then I would object to it. I imagine that if a couple of smokers in the smoking section (i.e. the table right next to the non-smoking section) were subjected to me spraying my air-freshener all over them table they might not be too pleased.
After all, it is not a smoking ban is it. It�s just a smoking ban in areas where smokers have had it their way for along time. Roles are reversed, where we (non-smokers) were told that if we didn�t like the smoke then we should vacate the area, now it is the other way round. The only negative thing I can see is that people might start smoking less and therefore contributing less in tax. But if smokers want to keep plonking lots of their money into the government coffers, that�s fine by me. And as for pubs losing trade because of it, that�s gobbledygook � people will not stop going to pubs just because they can�t smoke in them. It�s a pub for drinking in, not a dedicated smoking room.
For me personally it can�t come soon enough. I am not anti-smoking as such but I do object to second hand exhaled air blown in my face, or just floating like a mist around the room in which I am breathing. I don�t mind people drinking either, provided they are not spilling it all over me, then I would object to it. I imagine that if a couple of smokers in the smoking section (i.e. the table right next to the non-smoking section) were subjected to me spraying my air-freshener all over them table they might not be too pleased.
After all, it is not a smoking ban is it. It�s just a smoking ban in areas where smokers have had it their way for along time. Roles are reversed, where we (non-smokers) were told that if we didn�t like the smoke then we should vacate the area, now it is the other way round. The only negative thing I can see is that people might start smoking less and therefore contributing less in tax. But if smokers want to keep plonking lots of their money into the government coffers, that�s fine by me. And as for pubs losing trade because of it, that�s gobbledygook � people will not stop going to pubs just because they can�t smoke in them. It�s a pub for drinking in, not a dedicated smoking room.
As a smoker I have no problem with it at all, yes, it may inconvenience me a little at times but I am sure I will manage. As Octavius says, it will not harm the pub trade as can be seen in the south of Ireland and scotland. one thing though, if people give up smoking, how will this effect the taxes the govt receive?
I agree with pie+mash.
Several pubs and restaurants I have been in have provided no smoking areas for a good few years ~ and I never felt like I was sitting next to a smoke factory either.
I went up to Scotland in October where the ban is already in place. The pubs & clubs has piles of dog ends outside and you had to walk through a crowd of smokers to get through the door, too. I just hope that street and pavement cleaners are employed properly to clear the mess up (or the premises manager arranges it).
I am quite happy with the way things are ~ and I am a non smoker.
Several pubs and restaurants I have been in have provided no smoking areas for a good few years ~ and I never felt like I was sitting next to a smoke factory either.
I went up to Scotland in October where the ban is already in place. The pubs & clubs has piles of dog ends outside and you had to walk through a crowd of smokers to get through the door, too. I just hope that street and pavement cleaners are employed properly to clear the mess up (or the premises manager arranges it).
I am quite happy with the way things are ~ and I am a non smoker.
Ooops, forgot to add that whilst chatting to the wedding reception entertainer in Scotland (Lockerbie) he told me that the ban had affected a lot of trade areas around the border as youngsters were nipping over into Carlisle of a night so they could smoke freely..of course come July that will all change.
I think it'll be great. I was in various cities in the US last year where it's banned, and in Edinburgh this summer, and it was nice to be able to breathe healthy air in pubs and clubs for a change. As for those who say it's an infriengement on people's liberties, I'd say that breathing carcinogenic fumes in people's faces is more of an infringement. I'm counting down the days...
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