what are peoples views on no smoking laws in pubs soon to come into effect

[encee]

i think that freedom of choice has gone forever???

[Gmcd01]

How about my right not to breathe your smoke? I understand that you might enjoy it, but when the wider public is put at a scientifically proven risk because of one's behaviour, then it surely becomes time to take action. You still have your freedom of choice to go outside...it isn't that freedom of choice is gone forever...solely that YOUR choice of where to smoke has been capped by a law that sides with the people who don't puff their lives away...it isn't true that all people who frequent pubs have beer bellies and no appreciation of fitness you know...

[willowman]

Surely freedom of individual choice is constantly being eroded for the good of society as a whole? For instance, I cannot exercise my freedom of choice to drive down the right hand side of the road in the UK because of the chaos it would cause. A naturist cannot exercise his freedom of choice to walk naked through the centre of town because of the offence it would cause to many other people.

Your pleasure is smoking. The residue of that pleasure is smoke. This smoke permeates my hair and my clothes, leaving me, a non-smoker, smelling like an ashtray.
My pleasure is drinking beer. The residue of my pleasure is urine. How would you like it if I stood on the table and p****d all over you?

[dzug]

I've not been in a pub for years. Although I like drinking, they are always full of smokers, and I can't stand the smoke.
Where's my freedom of choice?

[Grunty]

In a town not far from my home is a pub that is so popular that it is often almost impossible to get in. That's right - it has been non-smoking for over 30 years.

[Ethel]

I can't wait!

I indulge in many vices and have some bad habits - all of which I carry out in the privacy of my own home. I do not expect to do any of them in public - even though nothing I do is illegal.

If you want to smoke - carry on! Smoke as many as you possibly can, the Chancellor needs your extra taxes. You still have the choice to smoke. Just contaminate your own air at home, and not mine.

[encee]

i am not a smoker, i was,I WAS JUST INTERESTED IN PEOPLES VIEWS ON THE MATTER.i think this answers my question thank you

[Catso]

Well, although a non-smoker, I disagree with the ban, on the grounds that it infringes the rights of the smoker.

A much better solution would have been non or smoking rooms, then everyone could have gone to the pub and had a nice time.

[Loosehead]

Yeah right ho catso and we'll have no pi55ing area in the local pool shall we! What about the rights of the non smoker to not be gassed with 100's of toxins?

[fahey2512]

smoking is bad.we all no this.we also no that people smoke in pubs.if u dont like smelling of smoke move to scotland or dont go out till 1st july 07 and stop ******* moaning.

[CushtyFred]

At last the inconvinience is on the smoker not the non smoker.