why cant they have smoking pubs?

Question

on july 1st, and then the non smokers can go to a non smoking pub

i mean a few months ago, drug addicts what were sent to prison for takink drugs got £3000 off human rights, because they couldnt have drugs in prison, lol, its a laugh, seem to me know that people in prison now have more freedom than the people on the outside.

p.s why can prisoners smoke in prison? its a working place.

Answer 1

There is always one isn't there.

Answer 2

Well that would be the sensible option, but since when have the lawmakers done anything vaguely sensible.

LATER: Only one thumbs down, not bad I was expecting more.
Anyway, further thought on the matter gave rise to this novel idea.
How about smoking only allowed in those pubs that DO NOT serve food and allow children on the premises. Any pub with a kitchen, that prepares food for sale on or off on the premises becomes non smoking.
This would also give those small independent " Real Pubs" a fighting chance to stay open against the large chains that seem determined to turn all of them into a "Hungry Horse" or worse still a "Brewers Fare"
While I think the smoking ban is a great idea in general, I think the true "British Pub" as something pretty special and as such should have had some special rules.
But as usual they come up with some knee jerk half baked idea and we all roll over and accept it.

Answer 3

Smoking bans are insipid laws for a number of reasons:
1. Who's going to enforce these laws, and how will such law enforcement be paid for?
2. By the time the 'cigarette police' arrive, it will be "your word against mine" that I was smoking.
3. Why isn't this an issue that is settled by the free enterprise system. If I designate my establishment as a 'no-smoking' pub, those who smoke can go elsewhere. If it hurts my business, it's my decision. If my pub is a smoking establishment, patrons enter at their own risk.
4. If this truly is all about 'health', then why doesn't the government ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of cigarettes? Could it be because they don't want to give up all that cigarette tax revenue?
5. Smoking bans are a violation of an individuals rights. I don't smoke, but I shouldn't be told that I can't as long as cigarettes are a legal and available substance.
-RKO- 06/17/07

Answer 4

because that wouldnt work really and im a smoker, people still need jobs and will take working in a smoking pub for the money.

and also its not a good social experiment like nu labour love.

it will save me a pile of money though , because i will virtually stop going drinking, i prefer smoking by a long long way.

wait til the drinking ban comes into force in about 5-8 years, that will puch loads over the edge, and if you dont beleive me keep watching the news and how alchohol is bad for you, its getting more attenbtion every day now the same as smoking was years ago

Answer 5

I think given the choice all pubs would rather be smoking pubs, as most people who go to pubs historically have been smokers or not bothered about inhaling OPS.So it will take the government banning it to make the pubs change, then hopefully over time people who have not usually gone to the pub because of the smoking will start to go, me being one of them, i hate the way i stink of fags when i have been in a pub, but they Should have smoking rooms for those who still want to smoke, like in the old days, (so my dad tells me!!!)

Answer 6

I live in Scotland and the smaking ban has been here for a while. I am a smoker but when you get used to it, it'snot really that bad, and i now perfer it. When going into england after the ban had been in place in Scotland it was shocking how much better pubs, resturants, etc were, there was amuch better atmosphere and everyone who smoked when outside and that became a small social area where evryone talks.
Believe me it is much better once you get usedto it.

Answer 7

I don't have a clue--if you can't smoke in a bar, where are you supposed to smoke? The tobacco industry pays heavy tax dollars to governments--so governments don't really want everybody to quit. Those tax dollars (some of them) go toward the health care of smokers who become ill...

If there are non-smoking pubs where you live--then there's no reason to stop smoking in all pubs.

Answer 8

Because none of us are grown up enough to choose what we do, so we have to be told by the government. I don't smoke and if I did I wouldn't impose it on anyone else; which is a shame because otherwise I could add to the list of new laws which I infringe on a daily basis, which is odd because a few years ago I'd have been the archetypal law abiding person.

Answer 9

I don't smoke but if i go to a pub i expect there to be lots of smokers. I don't have a problem with it, if the smoke gets to bad i step outside. I don't force people to live how I want them to, its their choice. I think people are getting way too carried away nowadays.

Answer 10

Because the government wants us all to stop smoking so we'll save the NHS a fortune. And how will they make up for the loss of revenue when cigarette sales slump? Easy; slap more tax on air fares.
I will never vote for Labour again: they are progressively taking away our civil liberties and we are fast becoming Europe's nanny state.

Answer 11

and who would decide which pubs got to be smoking or non smoking?
plus surely the non smoking pubs would claim they were being discriminated against and that the smoking pubs were getting unfair advantage etc etc etc

too much of can of worms. if you create loopholes in this law then people would rush to try to exploit the apparent weakness. only gonna work if blanket ban.