ive just read in the paper this smoking ban is going one step further,they are going to try and ban people smoking in their own homes when they have workmen in,
is this going to far.
2007-06-25 00:19:38 · 26 answers · asked by leec 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
They can try, But in my house I say what happens not the Government
2007-06-25 00:22:49 · answer #1 · answered by Smurf 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
i had heard that yes. i gave up smoking in Jan but i have slipped and smoke a few a day now. i don't smoke in my house now by my choice, i decorated and want my ceilings to stay white. i have a lean-to which i have just cleared, re-roofed and painted so we smoke out there. basically if workmen object to my smoke room, they can use the other door. saying that, most of the workmen who come into my house will have a cup of tea and a cigarette with me anyway.
by the way, spot on smurf
2007-06-25 07:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by val f1 nutter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The whole world has gone mad my friend, that's all I'm saying.
I've been a a non smoker for 4 years now and I am all for the ban, I hope it will give smokers the push they need to quit and lower cases of lung cancer, from passive smoking.
But how dare anyone tell you, what you can or can't do in your own home. It's getting beyond a joke!
2007-06-25 07:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by Queenie 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I heard that a few weeks ago.Some council (may have been Northants) said that when their workers come round to do repairs,the tennant cannot smoke whilst the workmen are in the property!
Bollox,I would carry on if that was me.
2007-06-25 11:34:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's ridiculous but probably true.
I had a workman who refused to come in because I had cats - he wasn't allergic ( I could understand that ) he was just a miserable git who went and made a complaint.
If they are so hot on stopping people from smoking they should just ban it totally and stop all imports - ah but look at the tax money they'd loose - bloody hypocrites.
2007-06-25 07:38:14 · answer #5 · answered by Debi 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I think it goes too far to ban smoking in our home... but what when the workman has asthma? do you stop smoking for him a while? I would. I've got a friend with asthma and it is definitely not fun to be in a smoky room when people have asthma....
2007-06-25 15:51:02 · answer #6 · answered by freebird31wizard 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speaking for myself, it is common courtesy not to smoke in your own home if you have a workman or nurse in to do work if they do not smoke.
However, I have no idea how it would be implemented in reality. Maybe yet another huge hike in council tax that has already ballooned by 300% + since the Political Correct lobby was forced on us. Just a shame common sense cannot be applied and has to be forced on us.
2007-06-25 07:24:08 · answer #7 · answered by brianthesnailuk2002 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think they are serious. I was reading the other day about a nurse who visits people in their home. She argued that technically it's her place of work and she was right to ask her patients not to smoke while she was there.
2007-06-25 13:27:19 · answer #8 · answered by Caveman's daughter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i live in wales where the smoking ban is already here. if a workman comes to a home of a smoker they can now refuse to enter the property, if they want to.
2007-06-25 07:56:44 · answer #9 · answered by lou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you think that strange, here in Coventry, the council are setting up a special hot-line and they're telling the non-smokers to ring in and snitch on anyone whose smoking in public. Ffs, let me win the lottery and l will quit this country once and for all
2007-06-25 07:38:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't smoke myself but, I do think there are going to far. it will end up being like drugs illegal but people will still smoke anyway
2007-06-25 07:26:26 · answer #11 · answered by sue h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋