I used to smoke but gave up a year and a half ago. How is your llife going to change once the smoking ban comes into force? Fr instance, how are you going to deal with not being able to smoke in pubs and clubs? or are you going to use the smoking ban as a chance to finally give up?? It's just that I know that if I were still smoking I would be so annoyed at having to keep going outside for cigarette.
2007-02-18 11:03:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I don't smoke but I don't support the ban - yet another example of the nanny state interfering with people's lives.
It should be up to the publicans, club owners, restauranters to decide if they will or won't allow smoking in their own premises.
If it's a government owned building then the government can make the rules but they're dictating to private individuals what they can and can't do in privately owned premises.
2007-02-18 11:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm a smoker in California.
I rarely spend any time in taverns since the ban. Drink and smoking go together.
I HATE having to go outside all the time to smoke.
They had a ban on all public indoor places except bars until a couple of years ago, when bars were included.
If they didn't enforce it, there would probably be a system of smoking bars and non-smoking bars -- which would be the best of all possible worlds. Smokers could smoke, non-smokers could be in a smoke-free environment.
That, of course, would make great sense, and thus is not the way things work.
sigh
2007-02-18 15:55:02 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smoking is bad.. mmmkay?
On a serious note. I think smokers are looking at this whole impending ban in the wrong light. It's not that they're having their rights 'taken away'. It's that they law and legislation want to protect the people that have to work in these establishments and the non-smokers that frequent them.
Preventing people from hurting other people even in subtle ways has always been the goal of laws and those that uphold them. This is a natural result of the will to keep people healthy and protect the 'innocent'.
So don't look at this so much as someone's rights being violated as much as a wake up call that, not only are you hurting yourselves, but you're going to start (just the beginning) being held accountable for it.
Which, I think, is long overdue.
2007-02-19 02:12:57 · answer #3 · answered by Scallawag 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I smoke, and have tried several times to quit just because I know this is unhealthy for me. I will try again, and hopefully I will succeed. But I think that if the smoking ban will be enforced, it will just make a cleaner environment for the non-smokers. It is not that big of a deal that we can't smoke in pubs anymore. In fact, in the United States a lot of indoor places are forbidden to place, so you have to get out to smoke. The politicans just want a safer place for the non smokers, and it's not that annoying, I don't think.
2007-02-18 11:08:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
ok the laws are active in australia in particular in qld you cannot smoke in pubs and clubs, beaches in some areas, playgrounds, within 4 meters of a doorway, public buildings and taxis in south australia you cant smoke in your own car with children the packets have disgusting pictures and warnings on them
overall people are having to go off premises to smoke at work at it has been banned in the workplace so time off for a ciggie break lost production time lost money when you times it by ten or more ciggies a day at seven mins each aprox thats a lot of time
not to mention how much cleaner the clubs have become ill have more on this later
2007-02-18 11:16:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i gave up a year ago but i don't mind being in a pub with smoke its apart of going out. now they want to put a ban in your homes for instance if you have a work man coming you have to stop 1hour before they arrive, how the hell do you do that? they say we will be there between 10am & 5pm so if you dont want to work or drink in a smokey atmosphear the find some where else to go
2007-02-18 21:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I smoked for 30 years but gave up 1 year ago on the 19th of feb ,
I now hate the smell of smoke , if I go into a pub, when i come out
I feel as if my clothes have been poluted and feel dirty with the smelll, I went into a cafe with my wife and daughter for a cup of tea and a bite to eat ,and half way into our visit a family of 4 people next to us ,all decided to all light up .......I cant wait for the ban !
2007-02-18 11:21:24 · answer #7 · answered by Cliff E 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, by the way the goverment works, everybody is going to get arrested for loitering because they will be standing out side the pub having a smoke. Im rather peeved to be honest, but I can understand why they are enforcing it, but it would be better if they kept to having a particular indoor area actually for smoking in. x
2007-02-18 11:10:44 · answer #8 · answered by biscuits 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I smoke and we already have the smoking ban here. Most pubs and clubs have a special smoking area and some of them are pretty cool. Its really not that bad.
2007-02-18 11:10:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i smoke i dont think it will bother me as i never smoke inside my house as i have a 19 month old and the hubby doesnt smoke, as for pubs, i think i will find it hard as i do like a ciggy with a glass of wine, but ill cope.
I don't know if i will try to stop, if i say i am, i will fail so ill see how things go.
2007-02-18 11:08:46 · answer #10 · answered by zeldieuk2002 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋