UK Smoking Ban: Pros/Cons?

Question

What are your pros/cons on the UK Smoking Ban?

Answer 1

less smoke/more anger!

Answer 2

I hope to hell everyone ignores it. I smoked for years sometimes up to 40 a day whilst driving the length and breadth of Britain. I also ate crap in every place I had to stop including Motorway service areas. I then had a minor heart attack and had to give up driving a lorry when it was found I was also diabetic and had to take insulin. I stopped smoking whilst in hospital. According to all the do-gooders the heart attack was without doubt my own fault and I guess all of the anti-smoking Nazis out there will say the same. However what happened to me has still not prevented me from defending the right of anyone to smoke if they should so wish and I feel like it will be beholden on me to light up a cigarette at the first opportunity after the ban comes into place in my local club where I have been a member for 28 years as a sign of solidarity with smokers everywhere. Smokers have been made social pariahs by the anti-smoking lobby and it would seem the only thing left is to ban tobacco. Do that by all means and we can all pay for the £7 billion in lost revenue and even the smoking Nazis will pay!!!!!!!. I would back the ban if at the same time the use and abuse of all non prescription drugs i.e. cocaine ,heroin, marijuana or whatever other name it goes by were made punishable by death!! But that won't happen because addicts can't help it can they? YES THEY CAN BUT THEY WON'T.

Answer 3

I think banning smoking in a pub/bar is ridiculous. People who drink often smoke. I understand the restaurant ban. It is offensive to inhale cigarette smoke while eating and I am a smoker! (A smoker who is going to quit August 1 of this year.) But if you go to the pub and destroy your liver why not destroy your lungs while you are at it! I was in San Diego and they do not allow smoking inside the bars so everyone was outside on the sidewalk smoking it up. This seems silly to me. All the people who complain about the smoke are walking down that smoke filled sidewalk. This is just silly and the governments way of controlling us. Next thing you know you will not be allowed to smoke in the home or car you own.

Answer 4

I am totally FOR smoking bans inside public buildings. It prevents non-smokers from having to deal with deadly, carcinogenic smoke. There's nothing wrong with stepping outside to smoke, where it can breeze away effortlessly. It's so nice to go out and come back home without smelling like a dirty ashtray!

Answer 5

Pro: I dont have those bikers dumping their cig buds into my beer.
Con: Hash brownies dont mix with beer

Answer 6

Sure, like you go down the pub to get healthy.
Against!!