Firstly let me just say that I am a cigarette smoker. But I haven't smoked a cigarette since 1987.
We have had this ban in Scotland for a long time now, and the pubs did not lose money, in fact life went on just the same.
Only difference is that the cigarette smokers have to stand in the pouring, freezing rain if they want to indulge their filthy habit.
Mind you, as most of them would be willing to stand naked and up to their armpits in a barrel of shite if it was the only way they could have a cigarette, this does not seem to bother them.
2007-01-09 01:07:48
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answered by Not Ecky Boy 6
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We've had the smoking ban in Scotland since last March and it's definitely made a difference to my pub use. It's a pleasure to sit in a pub and not come home smelling like an old ashtray. I do however have to fight my way in through a fog of smoke as the smokeres tend to congregate outside the pub door. Many pubs have built special shelters outside to accommodate smokers, although it can be very chilly in the winter. Maybe some pubs are also using patio heaters, which contribute to global warming so there's always a downside. All things considered, thumbs up o a smoking ban
2007-01-09 01:16:04
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answered by bloblynda 2
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I am not a smoker (anymore) & i do agree with the ban because i know from personal experience that when you are trying to give up & someone is smoking near you, it does make it extremely difficult. I think that it will do wonders for this environment & it may even help people to quit smoking. The sooner they bring it into the whole of the UK the better. It really annoys me when i go out for the evening whether it be to the theatre, cinema, pub or restaurant & there are people around me smoking. I hate smelling of smoke & it actually makes me feel sick when i smell smoke now. The only reason i stoppped was because my Grandfather (who was my best friend) died of lung cancer (& a brain tumour) due to smoking. I wish it would come in sooner, because if it saves just 1 person from dying of anything due to Smoking it will be worth it!
2007-01-09 01:15:53
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answered by Anonymous
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I'm not a smoker and I can't wait until I can go for a drink in a bar or eat in a restaurant without coming out smelling like an ashtray! So I am in favour of the ban - lets follow Irelands example!
2007-01-09 03:30:33
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answered by Boo 3
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Yes, but what as a smoker I don't like is the persecution, the way it's going from governments, councils, unions (unison), any smoker whether they are trying to give up or not are having to tolerate. Also 'smokers' that I've spoke to have been willing to compromise, and smoke well away from others, but NO, it smells, so do drugs & alcohol, even a tiny tot, or wee dram.
Perhaps having read unisons' latest hand clapping over smoking bans, we smokers should be made to wear a yellow star of David stitched on to our clothes and regestar with all authorities, after all like the Jews in the 1930's we smell, cause serious & fatal illnesses, lepers & leeches to society etc. Better still why not gas us all, then you would see just how much the so call charity 'ASH' creams off you the tax payer, £7 million in no-smoking ad.s, how many NHS beds?, pathetic little ads for drink & drugs.
Well it would certainly solve the unemployment problem, but immigrants would still be needed to work because drink & drug addled mind of those remaining.
Try being in casulty at night on a weekend, because some T**T who's had a 'tot' wrecks a family car, Nevermind about the people inside, sorry bits of them, then 'alckie' takes swing at people trying to help. While you're helping, because you can't let go of someones severed artery, a pompous little sh*t of perhaps one of the above spots a packet of cigrettes in your pocket and then and there starts to give you a lecture about the evils of smoking. So don't say about smokers to me, as for the figures banded about, at the rate 'smokers' are killing off the popullation you'll need all the immigrants to fill the jobs?
2007-01-09 01:42:13
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answered by Daedalus 3
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I'm not a smoker but many of my family are smokers, I'm all for the ban. I hope it helps alot of smokers to cut down and even stop smoking. My sister and husband smoke and their 2 children have been passive smokers since they were born. So surely this ban can only be a good thing.
Some people say that alot of businesses will lose alot of their customers but I dont think that will happen.
2007-01-09 01:14:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Ex-smoker. In favour. I found it very hard to give up, and wish I'd never had that first one, which I wouldn't if smoking hadn't been the 'done' thing. The world would be a better place if there was no such thing as smoking. But every culture seems to have narcotics of one form or another. We'll just have to stick with moderate alcohol consumption, 'til that's banned!
2007-01-09 02:30:59
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answered by Anonymous
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I am not a smoker so definately in favour of this. It is a hard fact that passive smoking kills and therefore I don't see any reason why my health should be put at risk by the dirty habits of others.
I read recently that smoking is linked to around 50% of all 'natural' deaths worldwide (the figures are much greater in Asia compared to the west) so it is quite right that the government take action and bring in bans.
And to all those people who argue that their granny has smoked 20-a-day and has lived to 100, I had a friend who died recently aged 32 from lung cancer caused by smoking - complete waste of a life and people actually pay to do this - astonishing.
2007-01-09 01:17:50
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answered by Chris G 3
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I am not a smoker. I live in Scotland and we have had the ban for a while now and, in my opinion, it is 100% successful. It is now enjoyable to go out whereas in the past it triggered off my asthma, made my clothes and hair stink and was altogether thoroughly unpleasant. I used to make a point of wearing clothes that could be washed as opposed to dry cleaned. Pubs are now a joy to go to and are just as full as before the ban, but now the clientele is all the people would could not go before due to the smoke.
Alas, not in my lifetime, but I hope that cigarettes will become illegal one day.
I don't go for all that crap about the smoker's right to smoke. What about the non-smoker's right to breathe?
I think the smokers look pathetic huddled in doorways sucking away on their cancer sticks.
2007-01-09 01:17:31
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answered by Ladyfromdrum 5
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basically get used to it. it truly is been regulation in Scotland and eire for a lengthy time period. I smoke and that i imagine it truly is an staggering theory. Smoking is a very anti-social habit, and that i do not even smoke in my own flat, out of recognize for the human beings who come round that do not, and hate the smell, and the wear and tear and tear to their well being. it truly is been no marvel that a finished ban is entering rigidity. 20 years in the past think ofyou've got a smoke on the upstairs of a bus, and smoke on a convention. Slowly, the parts the position smoking is suitable were decreased. i might want to pick to work out some thing more effective carried out about underage ingesting, and the violence brought about by way of inebriated human beings. i imagine it really is a shame seeing cigarette stubs littering the streets, yet I also imagine it really is a shame to work out them coated over with chewing gum. there'll be the nay-sayers who imagine it truly is an invasion of their civil liberties, yet I wager that they'd be moaning if I threw warm espresso over them, basically because i might want to. Peoples well being is a techniques more effective significant, and a good number of those who smoke consider the decision.
2016-12-28 12:38:44
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answered by Anonymous
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