as i understand it (from the brief explanation i was given at work) that legally a company or landlord must prevent you from smoking in an enclosed work/public place. the landlord may wish to extend the ban outside, so i'm presuming by smoking outside you would be breaking a company rule rather than the lawall new Phil wrote:I've heard a few people say that they couldn't wait for this smoking ban, as now they can take their kids to the pub with them without the worry of them breathing in secondhand smoke.
Erm, sorry, but I kindof enjoy the fact that their bratty screaming kids aren't there to start with. Some of us go to the pub to escape things like that.
Also... we've been told at our work by the local council that, not only can we not smoke inside (which we've never allowed anyway), but now we aren't allowed to smoke around the perimetre of the building too. Now then, being one of the managers of the place like I am, I am not allowed to leave the building other than to pop to the immediate outside of it. They can frigg off if they think I'm going to wait an 8 hour shift before I have a fag.
Does anyone know if this is actually the law? Because I can't find anything saying this on any of the government websites.
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But the company has said nothing about it, these are the words of the local council. The swines.
There are always exceptions.Jamez wrote:What makes me laugh is that anti-smoking health fascists seem to believe that they're immortal!
We're all gonna die!
Oh, and smoking isn't necessarily going to kill you off at 50. The world's oldest woman ever to have lived (as verified by the GBR) was Jean-Marie Calmont - a French woman who smoked all her life until 4 years before her death due to the fact that her eyesight was too poor and she was embarrased to ask for a lighter.
She died in 1997 at the grand old age of 122 years old.
Fact is you are likely to shorten you life by smoking.
My Uncle died at 67 after his legs rotted away under him due to his circulation being ruined by smoking all his life.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
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Been asked a number of times this week how i'm coping with the smoking ban.
I then put 4 Bensons between my fingers then walk outside with a lighter and brolly muttering " i'm coping just fine thanks".
Time to give up methinks. Although i think i'll end up recharging the patches from the amount of Nicotine in my system.
I must do some research into Nicotine, as some old geezer the other day was telling me about his father who lived to 94 and smoked 20 a day since he was 10 and was rather partial to a tot or 10 of Whisky a night. Apparently according to this chap Nicotine on its own without all the added crap you find in cigs kills more diseases than it causes.
I think he's kidding me. Off to google the benefits of Nicotine now.
First find... http://ezinearticles.com/?Nicotine---Ar ... &id=291157
I've decided that if i quit i'm gonna get hooked Nicotine replacement instead to keep Parkinsons and Alzheimers at bay.
I then put 4 Bensons between my fingers then walk outside with a lighter and brolly muttering " i'm coping just fine thanks".
Time to give up methinks. Although i think i'll end up recharging the patches from the amount of Nicotine in my system.
I must do some research into Nicotine, as some old geezer the other day was telling me about his father who lived to 94 and smoked 20 a day since he was 10 and was rather partial to a tot or 10 of Whisky a night. Apparently according to this chap Nicotine on its own without all the added crap you find in cigs kills more diseases than it causes.
I think he's kidding me. Off to google the benefits of Nicotine now.
First find... http://ezinearticles.com/?Nicotine---Ar ... &id=291157
I've decided that if i quit i'm gonna get hooked Nicotine replacement instead to keep Parkinsons and Alzheimers at bay.
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The main bar at my local is being refurbished this week now the ban's come in. So we've all got to drink in the Lounge Bar, where they've stuck the pool table and 2 fruit machines, but not the dartboard. It stinks of varnish. I'd rather it was stale cigarettes than that.
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I love the smell of Varnish, creosote well i just can't get enough of Ronseal * buries head in tin and inhales deeply*
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I'm just back off holiday so I am yet to experience a smoke-free pub... I have to say I expect stale smoke (like what your clothes smell of the morning after going to the pub), and the smell of vomit in some pubs.
As for me, I occasionally endorsed in a fag or cigar or two in the local, but I won't be anymore, can't be arsed going outside for one. Which then means I will be sitting in the pub on my own whilst the others go outside for theirs. Fan-bloody-tastic.
As for me, I occasionally endorsed in a fag or cigar or two in the local, but I won't be anymore, can't be arsed going outside for one. Which then means I will be sitting in the pub on my own whilst the others go outside for theirs. Fan-bloody-tastic.
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Well I've NEVER actively smoked in my life, and I'm now 35.
I only ever go to the pub when I'm on holiday, and that's for my evening dinner - I have a main course, pudding and one drink to accompany the meal.
Last Sunday to Thursday I was on holiday in Cornwall. As a non-smoker it was great to go into the pub, have my dinner and come out afterwards without clothes smelling of stale smoke. When I've been on holiday before, I've gone into pubs for my evening dinner, and sometimes my clothes have smelled of smoke, thanks to other people's second hand smoke.
Naturally enough some pubs will suffer as a result of the ban, there are bound to be some people who go to the pub to sit down, socialise, drink and smoke together. Such people may now discontinue pubbing. On the other hand, there's bound to be some groups of people (non-smokers) who, in the past, may have been deterred from pubs, because of sitting in a smoky atmosphere, wouldn't go to pubs due to the problem of coming out afterwards with smoke smelling clothes. Such people may now be attracted to now smoke-free pubs. So I see it as a swings and roundabouts situation, pubs will lose some customers, but they'll also win some.
Footnote
By the way, I notice that this thread which was started by someone other than me, seems to have stuck to the point of the smoking ban. Just about every new thread I've started on Metropol since I joined a couple of months ago (Songs with Middle Eights, Nintendo Wii, Newquay Lifeguard Hoodies), have quickly gone off topic, and have even resulted in others posting "mickey taker" messages about me. How come someone else's thread has kept to the point, whereas my threads seem to get mocked and taken completely off on tangents? I have as much rights to start threads as anyone else, please don't take it out on me.
I only ever go to the pub when I'm on holiday, and that's for my evening dinner - I have a main course, pudding and one drink to accompany the meal.
Last Sunday to Thursday I was on holiday in Cornwall. As a non-smoker it was great to go into the pub, have my dinner and come out afterwards without clothes smelling of stale smoke. When I've been on holiday before, I've gone into pubs for my evening dinner, and sometimes my clothes have smelled of smoke, thanks to other people's second hand smoke.
Naturally enough some pubs will suffer as a result of the ban, there are bound to be some people who go to the pub to sit down, socialise, drink and smoke together. Such people may now discontinue pubbing. On the other hand, there's bound to be some groups of people (non-smokers) who, in the past, may have been deterred from pubs, because of sitting in a smoky atmosphere, wouldn't go to pubs due to the problem of coming out afterwards with smoke smelling clothes. Such people may now be attracted to now smoke-free pubs. So I see it as a swings and roundabouts situation, pubs will lose some customers, but they'll also win some.
Footnote
By the way, I notice that this thread which was started by someone other than me, seems to have stuck to the point of the smoking ban. Just about every new thread I've started on Metropol since I joined a couple of months ago (Songs with Middle Eights, Nintendo Wii, Newquay Lifeguard Hoodies), have quickly gone off topic, and have even resulted in others posting "mickey taker" messages about me. How come someone else's thread has kept to the point, whereas my threads seem to get mocked and taken completely off on tangents? I have as much rights to start threads as anyone else, please don't take it out on me.
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