What Is Your Attitude Towards Smoking?

[Nameless14]

To me it smells terrible and I try to avoid it and those who do it while they are smoking. I don't do it myself but I'm ok with others doing it, as it's their choice.

[Eleena]

;0)

[Eleena]

In answer to your question, I hate the smell.

[pixie374]

I remember being horrified when they went up to £2.10 for 20 :-). Just a tax on addiction really.

[Eleena]

10.40 for cigarettes now, that’s what has come up googling the price of them??

[ToraToraTora]

still too cheap, make them £100.

[tamborine]

why persecute smokers it would be offensive if you did same to obese. Smokers can spend as they wish & chance their health as we all do everyday. Live & let live!

[spathiphyllum]

"still too cheap, make them £100."

Make fast food more expensive also due to the health risk? I can't leave my house without smelling McDonalds fries.

[New Judge]

"...so why have virtually all hotels in the UK gone completely non-smoking when x% of adults are smokers?"

Because around 4x% of adults are non-smokers and when they arrive in their room they don't want it to smell like a stale ashtray. Added to that, as mentioned, the health considerations of the room staff who have to clean the rooms out on a daily basis.

[Zacs-Master]

..........and the fire risk / getting insurance.

[hereIam]

This isn't about fast food though spath, it's about smoking !

[Prudie]

Mine are £12.40 a packet. I see no-one calls for alcohol to be priced out of the market.
Unless you have smoked you have no idea how hard it is to give up. The majority of smokers wish they'd never started.

[naomi24]

I don't smoke but don't mind other people smoking. No time for the holier than thou.

[nicebloke1]

It always makes my blood boil when such like keep pulling smokers apart for their habit even after its been banned in certain places, still not satisfied. Such like who wish they were a £100 per packet still have no problem in driving their polluting cars. So I hope fuel go's up to £100 per liter.

[Ken4155]

As an ex smoker, i certainly don't preach to the unconverted. I packed in because of hardened/blocked arteries after having a stent inserted. I have a cig after my Xmas dinner and that's it. If others want to smoke, so be it.
NJ; i remember back to when i did smoke. I didn't mind people eating while i was smoking. :-/

[Khandro]

I gave up 30 years ago, and yet the other day I was playing golf with a guy who lit up and I would have loved to join him, it smelt terrific.

[Sipowicz]

I curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid get!

[spathiphyllum]

"This isn't about fast food though spath, it's about smoking !"

It's about a principle. Ban it because people don't like the smell and because it's bad for health. So that can go for many things, but it doesn't because of the principle.

[hc4361]

In 2017 it was estimated that smokers paid an extra £12bn to the taxman but they cost £14bn taking in to account the cost of medical treatment, prescriptions and sick benefits; loss of productivity in the workplace; cost of putting out fires caused by smoking; cost of cleaning up to the local councils.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/18/comes-smokers-burden-nhs-may-contribute-tax-take/

Worst thing I ever did was start smoking. Best thing I ever did was stop in 1994 when I was smoking at least 40 a day. I certainly noticed the difference in my pocket and every budget I calculate how much I will save in the coming year by not smoking - roughly £9000 this year. My wife also smoked 40 a day and stopped at the same time, so that's an overall saving of £18k a year.

I save more money than that by not smoking - my outdoor clothes and curtains need dry cleaning less often because they don't stink of stale fags; my home needs decorating less often because the wallpaper and paint isn't stained; my cars sell easier because they don't stink nor have that nasty sticky residue on the roof lining plus no burn holes in the seats or carpets; I spend less on prescriptions as I no longer get chest infections.

For years I had the attitude that I would never stop smoking. I'm so glad I saw sense when I was diagnosed with asthma in 1994.

So, I hate to see people smoking, especially young people.

[hereIam]

No spath, it's about smoking.

[New Judge]

//"This isn't about fast food though spath, it's about smoking !"

It's about a principle.//

Your principle is misplaced.

Most people who object to smoking do so because of the effect it has on them. The smells and general unpleasantness of it coupled with the health risks attached to "passive smoking"

There are no such objections attached to fast food. I'd rather people didn't eat in the street or their cars because a large number of them chuck the (copious) packaging where they happen to be when they've finished. But other than that I don't really care what muck they eat because I don't suffer from "passive eating".