Smoking Outside Pubs, Cafes Etc.

[Apc2604]

Just interested in who would agree with this amendment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=smoking+outside+ban&oq=smoking+outside+ban&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i60.10469j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

[ummmm]

If they want even more pubs to close.

[Apc2604]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jul/18/english-councils-call-for-smoking-ban-outside-pubs-and-cafes

[Mamyalynne]

I would always move well away from anyone eating outside or anyone with children in their company - the current situation hasn't changed that.

[Apc2604]

Ummmm. In my opinion it would encourage more non smokers to go to pubs, especially in the warmer months where many people sit outside.

[iluvmargie]

I hope it becomes law, the amount of cigarette ends littered on the pavements outside pubs is shocking.

[Mamyalynne]

There's never been an excuse for littering, be it wrappers,waste food or smoking litter.

[Apc2604]

More people at the moment would probably feel more inclined to sit outside rather than actually go inside -including me!

[dannyk13]

Can't really see any valid objection to the idea.

[iluvmargie]

And it's hilarious to see all the smokers huddled together in all weathers puffing away as if there lives depended on it!

[iluvmargie]

^ 'their' .

[sanmac]

You cannot smoke on the outdoor patios in Ontario. However, if you leave the patio you can smoke on the side-walk mere inches away from the patio...Really strange!

[ToraToraTora]

Well I suppose the saddos have to go somewhere. I would like to be able to sit outside again when the weather is nice but I'll settle for getting them outside rather than in any day. I just wish they could learn to use a bin. I just can't fathom why all smoking areas turn into a pig sty knee deep in smoking paraphernalia, do they do that at home?

[fender62]

it will just discourage smokers, good bad, if i was a business at the moment, more bums on seats would be the order of the day for me.

[ToraToraTora]

marge 13:56, I always imagine them like this:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/12/07/15/2F240EE700000578-0-image-a-53_1449501705474.jpg

[iluvmargie]

Indeed TTT.

[Bobbisox1]

Pubs inside are so much cleaner now and yes the fag ends outside are disgusting

[ummmm]

Jeez, TTT, what kind of pubs do you use?

[Apc2604]

Most of the pubs we visit have good sized gardens with smoking areas designated outside,so its possible to escape from smoke. They can't smoke in other areas of the garden. I was thinking more of town pubs and how awful it must be want to sit in a relatively small area with smokers standing or sitting 1/2 metres away.

I have never in the last half century witnessed crowded smoking areas, but then I have avoided large towns and cities for years now! I haven't got any friends or relations who smoke. (Except for a couple who smoke, but not tobacco). I rather like the smell of their smoke!

[david small]

Oh the glorious day when smoking is a thing of the past.

[ToraToraTora]

ummm, I have never seen a smoking area that wasn't like a pig sty, not just in pubs, even the smoking shed at work is disgusting, the stench and carp everywhere is awful and I'm only walking past it. What pub have you been to that doesn't have that? PS I don't believe you, it is a scientific fact that smokers are in capable of using a bin.