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Surely they should allow persistent smokers to return if they wish!

In Plymouth they mark clubbers with a similar stamp to that used in most cities across the UK to enable entry/exit without repaying. It makes it fun watching people drifting through the city centre on a Sunday afternoon as you can usually tell where they have been the night before (the marks don't wash off easily do they).

Of course in Devon & Cornwall we should be following the agricultural heritage and actually brand people with a searing hot iron. After all, most of the clubs are little more than cattle markets for loose women/men anyway. I imagine many of the local bouncers will relish the thought of operating a nice furnace by the front door in which to stoke their irons.

all new Phil wrote:The only problem I've had in the last few weeks, which I've heard about in other places too, is when I went to a concert, only to be told at the door to "have your last fag now, because you can't smoke inside and we won't let you back in if you come out". I've heard of nightclubs doing similar, ie. charging people to come back in and, in some cases, not letting people back in at all.

Strikes me as a bit unfair, no?

Not really. A club or establishment, especially one with high spirits and alcohol consumption involved, must control its entrances and exits. A constant stream of in-and-outs by the smokers mob makes the club or venue more susceptible to non-paying entrants and/or lax security raises safety issues, especially if (ironically) a fire broke out in the venue.

And, as a mate of mine who runs a nightclub said, the right of entry remains with the club. You obey their conditions for entry or you don't enter, simple as. If they choose to re-charge you to re-enter the club, that's their prerogative. It's no-one's god-given right to come and go as they please to do whatever - get cash out, talk on the phone in the relative quiet of outside, or even just get a breath of fresh air. Most bouncers and doormen will let you do this if you ask them nicely, but some won't, and that's just life unfortunately.

Most smokers will never see this viewpoint, but smoking has been (finally) deemed an anti-social activity. Whatever the smells that now are prevalent in nightclubs, none of them has the potential to give the breather-inner lung cancer. Smoking may have masked unpleasant smells, but it was just another unpleasant (potentially deadly, toxic) smell which was doing the covering. I for one never gained any pleasure from the smell of cigarrette smoke.

Business at my local is just as booming as ever. There are more people inside than out, and there are more new faces (non-smoking as well as smoking.)

Come the winter, in my humble opinion, as demonstrated by Lorna, it'll now only be a matter of time before the will to go out for a smokeless pint outweighs the will to stay in and smoke and drink at home. And then we'll all be better off.

The only ones who lose are the tobacco companies, merciless corporate suits marketing death both to the buying public, each cigarette in turn affected everyone around them. Wasn't THAT a little unfair?

Jamez wrote:Most clubs now smell of:

Sweaty anuses

If you know what that smells like you're either gay or have a very flexible spine.

Or both.

Ok, adding to the list, a very strange fetish.

Most clubs smell of a very strange fetish, or adding to the list is a very strange fetish?

The latter.

I see. Anyway, women claim not to do poos or farts so perhaps they claim not to have anuses either!

Sput wrote:I see. Anyway, women claim not to do poos or farts so perhaps they claim not to have anuses either!

You're not kidding. Women don't have anuses until they meet men.

Ronnie Rowlands wrote:

Sput wrote:I see. Anyway, women claim not to do poos or farts so perhaps they claim not to have anuses either!

You're not kidding. Women don't have anuses until they meet men.

And you'd know all about that eh, little Ronmeister?

Who was that then Gradgrind? Do tell all.