what does the new anti smoking legislation entail?

Question

I know it's a pretty obvious answer, but how does it affect clubs/bars/pubs? Also what about your local cafe, do they have to be smoke free or can they choose not to be?
Will there be smoking areas in restaurants or are all those banned?
And pubs? do they HAVE to conform or does it only affect pubs that do not serve meals?
Thanks

I am fed up of stinking of other people's cigarettes after a night out!!

Answer 1

You will not be allowed to smoke in any public places
It's worked out well in Scotland

PS There will be no choice
Some bus shelters will also be no smoking, depending on how many sides they have

Answer 2

"what does the new anti smoking legislation entail?"
ALL GOODNESS!!!!
As an ex-smoker for a year and a half now I can only say how pleasant it is to walk into a smoke-free public place. I am sorry I ever smoked in the first place and I didn't realize until I quit how disgusting the smell is. I feel like I am suffocating around smokers now so I do keep my distance.
It truly worked out well with the ban on smoking in Canada. At first "smokers" grumbled about their rights but everyone steps outside now into smoking areas to light up. It makes dining, shopping and entertainment much more pleasant and not stinking when you come home is another bonus. I see it as a win-win situation for all. Some cities have smoke-free land so you can't even light up within the city limits. So having to step outside for a puff isn't so bad afterall!

I can remember travelling in the UK on a train as a smoker....GROSS...even I wouldn't light up. I am not sure how people suffered through the train ride but I know it was the worst I ever had a few years ago.
Congratulations....it will be nice when all the pubs and restaurants, shopping malls are smokefree!

Before you know people will find something new to grumble about anyways.

Answer 3

Its a draconian law which IMPOSES. Club/bar owners do not have a CHOICE.

It was made universal because those who would ban smoking were afraid of losing trade to those who would not.

You couldnt be made to stand outside if you were black, gay, disabled or female - but Smokers? "Theyre scum" so the Politicos think.

DESPITE the fact its a legal product, the Govt makes money from.

You can puff a mind altering drug which turns you Skitzo, and the Police wont bother you.

You can quaff pints & shots of social poison which turns you aggressive and into a potential killer, and thats ok.

But smoke a ciggy & your nicked!!

In Scotland, the law also applies to the INSIDE of your truck or car.

And I read recently that drivers who light up while moving will also be persecuted.

So I will probably (for the first time in my life) soon get done by the Police - bloody nannying totalitarian facists.

Answer 4

Your question is similiar to one I just posted. You go to a pub/bar and drink? so you stink from the smoke.....you ever wonder how you smell after a night of drinking? I have done both so am not on about either...I think its just another case where the rights of a club/business owners rights have been taken away from him. Whats next? In Ark its against the law now to smoke in your car if there are children in it.....is your homes next? Their is more than just the smoking/drinking issues here its deeper than that...its getting more and more gov't controls. Thats scary
And no, a club owner has no rights if the city has banned smoking in public places anymore. Most cities have passed the law you have to be 25 ft from the entrance to smoke.
The town businesses are losing business to the out of town businesses now..

Answer 5

In Scotland your not allowed to smoke anywhere enclosed but you can stand outside and get hypothermia meet new friends join the leper colony and tell your non smoking chums to p*** of as you don't want sued ..most are quite happy to stay .....get them to sign a waver first ...you do know that non smokers do have the choice but smokers don't human rights think not .....nanny state BIG yes what next smoke did disguise the smell of damp in pub BO on certain people and the smell of booze lots of non smokers liked the smell especially if it was cigars auch weeel your choice if your a non smoker ...bet you drive a 4x4 I object

Answer 6

All 'enclosed' public spaces. Does not distinguish between establishments , be it a local boozer , night club , public transport , taxi cabs , cafes , private social clubs and bistos [including the most obvious places such as hospitals and churches etc...]. They will have dedicated council officers to 'police' all places. The propietor will be fined heavily and the 'illegal' smoker will also be fined. All premises will display red-bordered signs and no-one will be alowed to 'choose to ignore' them. All smokers of cigarettes , cigars and pipes will have to go out into the street , or the owners of premises will be able to accommodate his smoking clients with outside shelters. I'm a smoker in Scotland and it comes as second nature to go elsewhere for my ***. It gets you out the way of boring conversation for a while come rain or shine!!. Some councils employ people to fine people who drop their fags in the street or a public thoroughfare , but that's the 'Arsehole Council' in Edinburgh and not the norm. £50 a time , it could be rather expensive. Political Correctness has gone bananas!!

Answer 7

In Scotland all clubs / bars / pubs have a complete smoking ban whether they serve food or not. In my town I know of some places that allow smoking in open air places eg beer gardens but smoking inside is not allowed.

Answer 8

The entire point of the ban in smoking in bar/resturants is the workers. It's about them having a smokefree environment, because all though people say, "they choose to work there", they may have had no other option. Even if they did, they have rights and not getting cancer isone of them. Once the smoking ban passes, there are no exceptions to the rule. Only loop hole is if you own a cigar bar, which then implies, smoking. Meals or no meals, the no smoking ban also applies.

Answer 9

Hopefully all smokers will have to stand out in the piddling rain and shiver and catch 'flu while the rest of us can enjoy a clean atmosphere inside in the warm.
Would you believe I was at a restaurant recently with a fabulous view - all the non-smokers were seated inside (no view) and the smokers - very few of them and lots of empty tables - were seated outside enjoying the view. When I asked the management why it couldn't be reversed and the smokers should sit in the indoor gloom he said that it was to stop the staff breathing smoke fumes and suing him!
Frankly I'd ban all smoking in public places. Everywhere would be so much cleaner and you wouldn't have all those awful cig-butts littering everywhere.

Answer 10

smokers will not be able to smoke anywhere in public which is a breach of human rights there was provisions for smokers and non smokers already in any decent bar resturant its just that non smokers choose to stand next to smokers non smokers are the most antisocial people in the world u will all be sorry when half the pubs close down

Answer 11

Failing to conform / in breach of include both a similar. i'm not a smoker yet i imagine I favored it even as human beings might want to smoke contained in the pub instead of 10 those who smoke at a time congregating contained in the doorway so i can't get in without first being doused in a dense curtain of smoke. there's a pub landlady in Barnsley that got here upon a loophole contained in the regulation. She fingers out questionnaires to each of her smoking purchasers, who then fill them in even as taking area of their cigarette. consequently the pub also operates as a smoking study centre quite interior the barriers of the regulation.