Your first smoke-free chance this Sunday - 1st July 2007

[malcyb]

This Sunday 24th of June will be your last chance to go down to your local and enjoy a smoke-filled Sunday Roast. Will you be indulging one last time inside a pub this weekend or like me rolling on to smoke-free Sunday 1st of July?

[onetrickpony]

As a pub cleaner ill be glad of the no smoking ban. The amount of 'dog ends' that end up on the floor amazes me considering each table and along the bar has ash trays.

[Jamez]

This Sunday will be your last chance to go down to your local and enjoy a smoke-filled Sunday Roast. Will you be indulging one last time inside a pub this weekend or like me be saying roll on Sunday 1st of July?

It's been smoke-free in Wales for nearly 3 months. You'll start seeing a lot more people on the pavements outside pubs and clubs from now on. That of course means violent street crime will shoot up as it in Wales.

At least when people were inside a building having a ciggy there was generally less excuse for confrontation. In the streets it's a different story.

The smoking ban won't go down very well in England!

[Ant]

I'm in Scotland, and since the ban it's been much more pleasant to go into a public building and not have to breathe other people's smoke. Why should non-smokers who take care of their health have the risk of lung cancer increased just because some people can't go outside for a few minutes?

[Gavin Scott]

Edinburgh has changed since the smoking ban. Hundreds and hundreds of tables and chairs are outside on the pavements in the city centre. It looks almost continental on a lovely sunny evening.

Attitudes are well adjusted, too. Smokers chat and laugh outside - honestly a great way to meet new people (although for obvious health reasons I don't advocate taking up the habit for this reason alone); and non smokers seem perfectly pleasant when passing the smokers. I do know non smokers who join us outside to keep chatting.

It's all very nice actually.

[marksi]

I agree with everything Gavin's said. It's the same here in Northern Ireland.

He did however miss out a downside.

In hot weather there is a certain whiff of BO in pubs and clubs that would have been hidden before, and you'll be surprised how many people suffer from flatulence.

[Stuart*]

I won't have a problem with going outside to have a smoke. In summer I would always sit outside the pub anyway.

What does "get my goat" is my employer's insistance that smoking is to be banned OUTSIDE at work also, no doubt on the basis that my ciggie smoke (one-part-per-100 trillion within a 3-foot radius of my smouldering tobacco) may cause death or serious health problems to someone driving through the car park with their car window open.

I will continue with by post-lunchtime ciggie outside in breach of the new rule until they can prove to me that someone is actually inhaling my smoke on a secondary basis.

[Lorns]

Been asked this week, while stood outside my salon having a chug on a fag what i'm going to do when the smoking ban kicks in. When i tell them i'll carry on smoking outside as usual, they are surprised that i'm not gonna try and give up. What really gets to me when i'm smoking outside is a client will walk past me to enter the salon and have a little cough. I put my ciggie out straight away as i can't leave clients waiting, but the non smokers have to make a little point by coughing at me.
Some of whom which has been mentioned stink of BO and boozy breath. How would they feel if i sprayed them with deodrant and breath freshner before they entered my premesis.

[Joe Public]

I won't have a problem with going outside to have a smoke. In summer I would always sit outside the pub anyway.

What does "get my goat" is my employer's insistance that smoking is to be banned OUTSIDE at work also, no doubt on the basis that my ciggie smoke (one-part-per-100 trillion within a 3-foot radius of my smouldering tobacco) may cause death or serious health problems to someone driving through the car park with their car window open.

I will continue with by post-lunchtime ciggie outside in breach of the new rule until they can prove to me that someone is actually inhaling my smoke on a secondary basis.

I had to deal with this at my last workplace.

If the land that you stand on to have a cig is owned by your company then yes they can request that you do not smoke. They cant sack you but they can disipline you but if you carry on you'll be dismissed.
If you are sat in your car even on your companies premises they cannot stop you.

[Jamez]

There's a gritty, underground metal/rock club in Cardiff city centre called Metros. Before the ban you could smell a weird smell as you walked in, but it soon disappeared after a couple of drinks and the place filled up.

I went there a couple of weeks ago, and the smell as I walked in at the start of the night was horrific. It was like a box full of rotting foxes was under the bar. It was so bad that my eyes began watering!!

I considered leaving until I noticed the other people had their t-shirts pulled up over their noses and staff liberally spraying Glade air freshener!

The smoking ban definitely reveals the true smell of pubs and clubs - they all stink!

[Lorns]

So, the smoking ban is really of benefit to us smokers 'cos we get to sit outside and socalise in the fresh air, while the anti smoking brigade with their acute sense of smell suffer in the closed in sweaty stinky clubs and pubs.

Hahaha the anti smokers seem to have shot themselves in the foot with this ban.