Do you agree with smoking ban?
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Do you agree with smoking ban?
Would you be happy if I spat in yours? Smoking should only be allowed if the criminal wears a smoking hood, sealed, ... with the smoker compulsory fumigated after... smelly outcasts!! The full weight of the law must be applied!!
[ceorlman], Maidstone
Are you on crack? What is with the rabid attitude and once smokers have been beaten into submission then who will you turn your rage on next? Either you are taking the mick or you need to lighten up, not sure which.
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"Hurray, no more cancer-ridden pubs.
Oh Noes, Stratford
No we will just have to put up with drunken yobs like you instead without a fag.
people like you really need to grow up you know.....[Ravensbane], Rugby, United Kingdom"
I'm with Oh Noes on this one, does that make ME a drunken yob - given that I rarely drink alcohol, but like going out in the evening???
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No we will just have to put up with drunken yobs like you instead without a fag.
people like you really need to grow up you know.
Ok so no smoke in pubs, i breathe the rubbish your car puts out and your other bad habits i bet you have would interfear with others. So non smokers before you start bleeting away remember your vices and issues before mouthing off
[Ravensbane], Rugby, United Kingdom
What is this post about? this board is to put your point of view across not insult stangers!
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Hurray, no more cancer-ridden pubs.
Oh Noes, Stratford
No we will just have to put up with drunken yobs like you instead without a fag.
people like you really need to grow up you know.
Ok so no smoke in pubs, i breathe the rubbish your car puts out and your other bad habits i bet you have would interfear with others. So non smokers before you start bleeting away remember your vices and issues before mouthing off
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I do not smoke but I inhale smoke when people smoke around me.That is slow and constant manslaughter.Where is my choice? Why NHS shoudl pay for people's expensive hobbies.It can better serve the refugees
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Firstly i pay my taxes which goes to the NHS, WHY SHOULDNT THEY PAY FOR ME !!!!!
Secondly what the h*ll are you talking about refugees??? so you would rather your tax is spent abroad with no benefit to you!
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Simon Flynn, the thought of any of my organs or my families going to the likes of people like you makes me feel sick, you antis dont like washing your bodies, hair or clothes a right dirty smelly bunch of small minded bigots, but you will take your kids into a pub drink then get behind the wheel of a car drive putting them and everyone else in danger, you twofaced hyprocrits. The world would be a much better place without the likes of you and your kind.
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Please see the Royal Institute of Public Health website for a press release on this topic.
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[quote]Like someone else said, health nazi’s stay home with a glass of fruit juice.[/quote]
You arrogant imbecele. That's exactly the attitude of drink-drivers: 'I care more about my own nefarious habit than I do others' health'.
Why don't YOU stay at home and smoke yourself to a coughing, wheezing, rattling death?
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hmmmm shame we can't harness smugness as an energy source....
On this board alone you could power a hospital for a year....
Noneof Yourbusiness, Leeds
This from the mabn who thinks he's James Dean and we're all geeks just because he's killing himself with a cigarette and the rest of us don't like it!
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"Personally I would like to see smoking banned in ALL public places. The smell of tobacco smoke can be very unpleasant even in the open air."
David Butler, Glasgow, United Kingdom
I find the sneezing fits which other people's cheap perfumes gives me extremely unpleasant and as for BO..phew! However I realise that until I win enough on the lottery to buy my own island I have to share this one with other people and some of them smell. Here's me living with it.
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Hey Tony Sweeting, Leicester, United Kingdom
You have no answer because us non-smokers don't care any more. Our will has won, so why do we need to find a compromise that would please you - you smokers had your chance and blew it. Now we take over the world.
Ha ha haaaaaaa
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ps lots of things smell which we don't ban. You are wusses.
Ryan Hamhertz, Goring, United Kingdom
ah..like what, exactly? I mean...what else make you smell as bad as a cigarette? apart of a week without showering, of course.
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Is that fair to me or my unborn baby ?
polly weir, London, United Kingdom
NOONE CARES!!! You make the choice to have a job where you have to commute; you made a choice to get knocked up. So why should everyone else bend over backwards to accommodate you????
Damn breeders make me sick with all their 'my children are everyones problem' cr*p.
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Ah - clever BBC have got a link deleter - try www dot commondreams dot org forward-slash headlines04 forward-slash 0603 hyphen 08 dot htm. (Although why on earth you shouldn't be allowed to redirect people to informative links escapes me).
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Damn breeders make me sick with all their 'my children are everyones problem' cr*p.
G M, R, United Kingdom
how vile are you?!
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Taking any drug is a balance between its benefits and its side-effects. Unlike even heroine, which gets you high, tobacco has absolutely no benefits. The only pleasure smokers get is satisfying the addiction. Tobacco really is the most stupid and pointless drug of the lot.
Dan Dover
Which particular heroine are you thinking of
Dave?Florence Nightingale?
I may be a smoker but at least I am literate!
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If I go to friends/family that smoke, they now tend to respect me for being a non smoker & go outside or not smoke at all.
Steven Paull, Cardiff, United Kingdom
All your comment shows how selfish you really are and what sort person you are.
look aroundus, United Kingdom
Or it just shows that his friends who smoke are decent enough to know that it offends and as they value his friendship, they happily make an effort (as real friends do) to be gracious hosts and accommodate him?
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If I go to friends/family that smoke, they now tend to respect me for being a non smoker & go outside or not smoke at all.
Steven Paull, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Yes and I am father christmas, this just shows that you are not really their friend or respect your family! They respect you in your house but you can not in theres. All your comment shows how selfish you really are and what sort person you are.
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If I go to friends/family that smoke, they now tend to respect me for being a non smoker & go outside or not smoke at all.
Steven Paull, Cardiff, United Kingdom
All your comment shows how selfish you really are and what sort person you are.
look aroundus, United Kingdom
I just spotted this and I think it demonstrates my point that smokers will accommodate and my point that this action breeds only hatred.
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Ban it completly. Smokers are generally on the lower rungs of the interllectual ladder and need to be shown the error of their ways before they poison too many others. Billy Bamboo
They probably read the Daily Mail too - they should all be gassed and the bodies burned!
Some people don’t argue for smoking, just freedom.
You’ll join in when they are trying to ban something you like.
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Fat people are disgusting, uglier than normal people, they smell, make it harder to get out in a fire, and take up more space in the pub. You could get 3 or 4 normal people in the space some of these obese folk take up and the fire exits would be more accessible. Even the look of some of them makes me want to hurl which poses a health risk to me and those around me.
Ban the fatties!
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Ban it completly. Smokers are generally on the lower rungs of the interllectual ladder and need to be shown the error of their ways before they poison too many others. There is no logical argument in favour of smoking yet there are those who argue for it. This goes to show just how ignorant some people are. Never trust the judgement of a smoker or its proponents.
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Ban it completly. Smokers are generally on the lower rungs of the interllectual ladder
Billy Bamboo
The 'interllectual' ladder? If you're going to be grossly insulting about the intelligence of a vast number of people then at least have the good sense to look up how to spell all the words in your chosen insult.
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"Ban it completly. Smokers are generally on the lower rungs of the interllectual ladder
Billy Bamboo"
Yes Billy, I fear you may have made real fool out of yourself. Perhaps more attention to English usage, and less concern about other peoples habits...
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It`s the thought of all those smug faces on the nicotine nazis faces that puts me off.
[rightofcentre], wakefield, United Kingdom
The biggest lol I have had off this site yet !
Nazis? Seriously? oh dear. Pop your teddy back in the pram and go have a smoke….at home. Looks like they pulled your comment off the site. Awwww bless. Banned again.
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"Ban it completly. Smokers are generally on the lower rungs of the interllectual ladder
Billy Bamboo"
What a foolish comment.
Walk through a university campus and observe the number of professors who smoke.
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I'd support an action to permit one pub in each town to allow smoking.
At least then the police would know where to wait for the troublemakers.
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According to the American Cancer Society, cigarette smoking causes 82% of lung cancer deaths, not the 99.9% claimed by a previous ill-informed correspondent.
I must say that there are few things that make you look as stupid as making up obviously false statistics and then writing "FACT!", as though you had done something rather clever.
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Who else can see the irony of the non smoking lobby, delighted that smokers are prevented from lighting up in pubs and clubs so that they can enjoy a drink without the smoke? Ban one drug so they can enjoy another exclusively.
But non smokers, guess what? Alcohol kills too! Passive smoke may cause health problems and eventually death, but the worst effects of passive drinking are being knifed or mown down by a drink driver. Which is the more lethal? Ban alcohol next for consistency?
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Who else can see the irony of the non smoking lobby, delighted that smokers are prevented from lighting up in pubs and clubs so that they can enjoy a drink without the smoke? Ban one drug so they can enjoy another exclusively.
But non smokers, guess what? Alcohol kills too! Passive smoke may cause health problems and eventually death, but the worst effects of passive drinking are being knifed or mown down by a drink driver. Which is the more lethal? Ban alcohol next for consistency?
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Who else can see the irony of the non smoking lobby, delighted that smokers are prevented from lighting up in pubs and clubs so that they can enjoy a drink without the smoke? Ban one drug so they can enjoy another exclusively.
But non smokers, guess what? Alcohol kills too! Passive smoke may cause health problems and eventually death, but the worst effects of passive drinking are being knifed or mown down by a drink driver. Which is the more lethal? Ban alcohol next for consistency?
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Here Here!
widuran Bertram,
Or even 'Hear Hear.'
You really are not very bright, are you?
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"I fully support any idiot's right to smoke until pieces of lung are exhaled with each breath. Just have the decency to confine your disgusting addiction to your home or smoking-only areas."
[idealworld], United States
Your country produces 1/4 of the world greenhouse gasses and refuses to curb them, and yet you still have the arrogance to bash smokers with such ferocity. Don't you think your global antisocial behavior should first be addressed?
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As a smoker I must say I welcome the ban.
Come the summer months all of us smokers will all be outside enjoying the sunshine while the non smokers remain inside breathing in their sweaty stale air.
Duncan Stevens
....or perhaps you'll be in the MacMillan Hospice enjoying a morphine drip?
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....or perhaps you'll be in the MacMillan Hospice enjoying a morphine drip?
Hootsmon Astley, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Infact they are Macmillan nurses not hospices I think you mean marie curie hospices, and to be honest I wouldnt mind dieing in a hospice, better than suffering forgettening my name in a home or wetting myself in a NHS hospital or both. There is no proof that passive smoking caused lung cancer, but we all carry cancer cells so get over it dude.
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So might is right and stuff the minority. Excellent.
It was logic like that that sent millions to the gas chambers.
You are always complaining about being racially profiled because you are Asian.
It is you who is the hypocrite.
[tre-cool]
Why are you bringing his racial issues into a smoking debate? Racial profiling has nothing to do with a ban on smoking.As a former smoker I 100% support this government. (For once) But I do think that public places should get a smokers licences.
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I don't smoke but if i have to choose between living in a smokey world or a facist state,i'll be lighting up mine real soon!!
Alex Gache, Netherlands
Not too bright are we??.........idiot
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The ban on smoking is a good proposal for the health of the majority, non smoking public.
widuran Bertram,
So might is right and stuff the minority. Excellent.
It was logic like that that sent millions to the gas chambers.
You are always complaining about being racially profiled because you are Asian.
It is you who is the hypocrite.
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“Slurring anyone who disagrees with you by accusing them of being a paid industry stooge is the Global Warming debate. Do try to keep up.”
[Harry-Flashman]
Or even 'Hear Hear.'
You really are not very bright, are you?
[Harry-Flashman]
I may not be great at spelling but you are very good at slurring other people. The righties always prove what hypocrites they are. How pathetic.
The ban on smoking is a good proposal for the health of the majority, non smoking public.
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I fully support any idiot's right to smoke until pieces of lung are exhaled with each breath. Just have the decency to confine your disgusting addiction to your home or smoking-only areas.
[idealworld], United States
So what discusting habits do you have then, None? I bet something you do thoroughly p**** es of some one, Yes?
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WELL, FROM WHAT I CAN SEE IT SEEMS THE ONLY "FREEDOM" YOU CAN GET TO SMOKE FREELY IS SIMPLE.
GO OUT
SMOKE IN A PUB
GET FINED (HENCE LINING OUR GUVS POCKETS)
DONT PAY
GO TO PRISON
AND HEY PRESTO. YOU CAN SMOKE ALL YOU LIKE THERE.
TALK ABOUT BRITISH DOUBLE STANDARDS!
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To James of Reading
It is just the sort of sanctimonious toffee nosed clap trap we have come to expect from new labour voters from the affluent south east, I happen to be middle class with a decent income and I smoked for years whilst at the same time playing rugby union twice per week during the season(tight head prop) I hung my boots up last year aged 49, I stopped smoking in April this year just in time to start paying yet another due to be imposed tax, road charges. Let us ban everything!!!
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I absolutely agree with that.
for me, it's really disgusting to smell burning smell and i'm always angry about the pelple who don't care about others' right to breathe with fresh air.
i also have an experience of being burnt by burning cigaratte on the street.
it was really awful!
the new ban sounds like a really good idea for me.
jung suk park, london
HAHAHAHA fresh air living in London hahahahahaha and I will be flickin by cig butt at non smokers.
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I think smoking should be punishable by death.
Sebastian Mulliman
It is!
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All non-smokers are absolute biggotts when they keep getting all worked up and going on and on about the health issues of smoking and then go out and make uneccesary trips in their cars.
just be honest and say you just hate the smell don't go on about your health.
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Added: Friday, 1 December, 2006, 16:26 GMT 16:26 UK
Smokers ought to be punished severely.
Sebastian Mulliman
One word IDIOT- You don't smoke thats your choice and life some people do and thats their choice.So leave it out.....
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the reference you quote seems to be an exeption to the rule. bars in America, Canada, Scotland, Ireland and any other place that has a smoking ban have shown trade either not affected or better.
minty fresh
Smoking ban is killing our trade
Fife Today - Fife,UK
08/03/2006
"We estimate that we are losing £2,000 a week because of the ban and it can't go on like this because it is killing the pubs in the area."
Bar owners affected by smoking ban
Tillsonburg News - Ontario, Canada
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I like the way the non smokers say "Fresh air" when they most likly live in the city and wouldnt know fresh air if it jumped up and bit them on the a**.
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As a 'casual smoker', you know, one of those who just smokes when they drink (tastes like **** without a pint for some reason but there you go)...I find I supp more frequently without a smoke between gulps - it'll probably make me drink more...ah well, every cloud..
By the way I fully support it, I mean it's killing the passive smokers by the thousands isn't it? which don't thinks fair on them really.
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The smoking brigade frequently complain about what others think of them.
Yes, I do look down on smokers and am not ashamed of it. For their stupidity they deserve to be treated with contempt as one would a glue-sniffer or a meths drinker. They spend vast amounts of money to inhale foul smelling smoke that massively increases their risk of cancer, prematurely ages their skin, makes their breath stink and their surroundings stale and stained.
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I still can not believe that anyone is making reference to alcohol when they talk about harmful subsances. Yes, alcohol is harmful and addictive. But there is one crucial difference: when someone is drinking, they are not urinating all over the people surrounding them! It's as simple as that. Remember, this is not a ban on smoking altogether; it's a ban on WHERE you are allowed to do it. It's amazing how many smokers simply don't get the point: it f*****g STINKS!
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...and the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese and there really is a God.
Francis Urquhart, London, United Kingdom
How would you know there is a God anti smokers are fascists in disguise and God certainly wouldnt want you.
Sharon Donald, Derby, United King
Irony is wasted on the stupid...
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I wonder when this lot are going to ban free speech, drinking beer, and driving cars. I don't like smoking, but this Cronie Blair doesn't want us to enjoy ANYTHING. Let's ban HIM!
Max Headroom
The best TB could do is to ban stoopid misinformed armchair politicians who need to have things explained more than once... Got that Max?
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As a smoker I realise I am in a minority, and have never minded having to step outside for a tab.
It`s a pity that not all minorities are as obliging.
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"If I locked myself in a garage and smoked 100 cigarettes, i would walk out fine."
But if you did it in my garage, you wouldn't. Get it?
Smoking in public places will be banned in England on 1 July 2007, Patricia Hewitt has announced.
The ban will mean smoking is not allowed in offices, factories, pubs and bars but will not stop people from smoking outdoors or in private homes.
Ministers say it will protect everyone from passive smoking, but opponents say the total ban is "draconian".
Do you agree with a ban on smoking in enclosed public places? Will you adhere to these new rules? Will this encourage you to give up? Send us your views.
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