non smoking??

[legend758duo]

watching bill hicks and i just wet myself at this clip.
you can use some of his lines after the smoking ban.

best line " i think its terrible coming up to smokers and coughing.do you go up to cripples and dance ???"

look if ur not offended by strong language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ySCcnoo3c

[Cockney_si]

Back to the question:-

Yes Bill Hicks was an extremely funny comedian but, however on the same note, he did sadly die of lung cancer.

[rom]

the smoking ban doesnt really bother me
i quite like going outside and getting some different chat, you find out lots of gossip aswell that way hee hee

[legend758duo]

he did die from cancer.

but as he said non smokers die too.
there is no forever lasting lufe because you dont smoke.
at the end of a day the only difference between a non smoker dying and a smoker is that they never got to smoke a cigarette.

so i supose he had hunour right to the end.

[WaldoMcFroog]

Nope, Bill Hicks died of pancreatic cancer and it was entirely unrelated to smoking.

[China Doll]

Was pancreatic cancer I'm fairly sure he died of. Very hard to spot. And the first thing he did on learning of his dianogsis was light up... well according to the book I read anyway :0)

It's all just a ride.

[Cockney_si]

Oops sorry, I got confused with my information, but I do remember him doing a stand up act somewhere when he actully quit smoking for a short while.

[China Doll]

You're right. He did quit.

[matthewt]

I really don't understand how we got here. The original proposal in the Labour manifesto was to ban smoking in pubs which served food. And we end up with a blanket ban. What's the point of a manifesto if it is ignored after the election.

Listen to this weeks Moral Maze (concerning the ban) on the Listen Again section of the radio 4 website. In his introduction Michael Buerk observes that after the ban the legal status of smoking wil be 'not much different from ******* and far more socially unacceptable', that many suspect the dangers of passive smoking are overstated and that the cost to the economy is a bogus calculation.

The argument that 75% of the population (the non-smokers) are in favour of the ban is weak. (I bet a similar percentage are in favour of the death penalty but that's not going to be reintroduced any time soon). Demonising the smoker in this way is just another example of the nanny state. Visit Dublin and you can see its effect - crowds of people smoking outside pubs, lighting up the moment they leave one pub to head for another, butts everywhere.

After the ban, the character of the British pub will be irrevocably altered and frankly I'm not sure I want to be surrounded by sanctimonious gits harping on about how much nicer the atmosphere is without the smoke.

And to those revelling in the ban I say be careful what you wish for. You may end up with the type of government you deserve and the next freedom they go after might be something you care about.

M

ps On the subject of Bill Hicks (genius) check out this sight.

http://www.slightreturn.info/

I've seen this show and it is very good. Don't know when he is touring again though.

[matthewt]

In case you were wondering, the ******* was bu99ery. Lol!!

[China Doll]

Huh... I got all excited there until I remembered it was 2007!!