Smoking Ban

[Panic Button]

Is anyone else heartily sick of hearing whinging smokers the last few days?

[Doc Spock]

Oh pi55 of panic you santimonious no smoking to55er. Sorry, just a bit fed up of this issue, as we all are. let it drop. Full bl00dy stop.

[netibiza]

I think they should all be shot!

[Doc Spock]

Please stop smoking but for christs sake keep paying the taxes or we will be financially fcuked.

[Panic Button]

Raw nerve?

[missrandom]

oh yes, i am! poor little outcasts, almost feel sorry for them, not!

[dot.hawkes]

My daughter smokes about 10 a day, she smokes because she is under stress at work, now she is stressed because she can'r find anywhere to have a ciggie when she is stressed, I want her to quit, and so does she, but the job is not easy and today her area manager was down andshe felt so wired she wanted to scream, she couldn't even have a cig waiting on thje train station and she walked right to the far end where noone was but she said there were police there with badges on saying smoking monitor. I hope it all does help her give up, but at the moment she is unlivable with due to not being able to calm her stress, It isn't easy I guess, I sympathise with her as i know how stressful the job is, I just hope she can get her head round it before she wraps someone else's round a lamppost.

[Doc Spock]

People smoking has got to be the least of anyones' worries.

[Doc Spock]

Not at all Panic b , I have stopped, just cannot stand all the hype, it's all a big so bloody what.
I am just waiting for the backlash when the new taxation strategy comes into play, it will be banning barbecues next, co2 and all that crap.

[dot.hawkes]

Doc when i picked her up at the station just now shje was really feeling pannicky, she says there just is no where tio smoke in the middle of Preston, I told her that she should maybe quit and she went ballistic! She said if it went on like this and she couldn't just have a smoke 3 times a day she would be quitting to go fruit picking over the summer, i am confused now.

[Doc Spock]

What is wrong with the occassional fag for goodness sakes, I would have thought there were far more serious issues to address.

[dot.hawkes]

Doc don't get me wrong, i cannot tolerate cigarette smoke around me it stops me being able to breath properly, and my daughter shouldn't have ever started smoking, but she did, when she was 13 or 14, like alot of kids, she hid it from me for several years, but contstant punishment for it didn't work, now she used cigarettes as a form of stress relief and is not listening when i tell her to try to quit, but this I hope will now work, she will get used to it, it is a great change and for many won;t be easy, i think alot of people thought it was just a case of not being allowed to smoke indoors, but it seems there is a distance restriction, and in a city that is not easy to get past.

[Doc Spock]

She will only stop when she really wants to, I have no problems with smokers, I was one for decades. Don't give her a bad time she will be having enough of that from new ruling.

[sophie_1003]

im glad about the smoking ban but i suppose the whinging is what they got from non smokers when they were allowed to smoke inside! better to have whinging in your ears then smoke in your nose!

[smudge]

Yippee - we can resume our Quiz nights again....

I believe in free choice & all that, but I'm personally glad of the smoking ban in pubs & especially restaurants.

We used to really enjoy going to quiz nights on a Tuesday in our local pub, but gave up due to coming home with hair & clothes stinking of cigarette smoke, having sore eyes & it making my sinusitis worse!