How about you smokers? surely common sense says it must be nicer too for you?
2007-12-11 21:45:01 · 24 answers · asked by wheelrim 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I am a non smoker but there is a story about an Irish pub where they bought an old bus to shelter the smokers only to find the non-smokers preferred it because they had more fun there.
I am torn a little between the two positions. The non-smoking area is to protect the staff but most of them smoke anyway so what is the point
2007-12-12 00:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by Scouse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know..I can understand that the air's a lot clearer and that non-smokers now don't smell of smoke when they go home.. but pubs just don't feel like pubs without it. What are they going to do next - ban alcohol from pubs?!
I just think the government should focus on more important issues with culture today - why should a smoker be condemned for smoking in a pub, when people like Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty are continuing to be publicly on crack?! I think it looks worse on the government, that they're incapable of stopping people from committing REAL crimes
wheelrim - I'm just interested..are you really a policeman? :-p
2007-12-11 22:13:48 · answer #2 · answered by viv 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, of course as a non-smoker it is going to be better for you. I am an ex-smoker who still struggles with wanting a cigarette when I'm drinking so it's better for me to because there's less temptation. In what way is it common sense that it is better for smokers though? They have to get up every 30 minutes or so, thereby losing their table and stand outside on the pavement in the freezing cold with no shelter and usually no ashtray either. How is that nicer for them?
2007-12-11 23:51:53 · answer #3 · answered by Katya Z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I no longer go to them out of choice,if I am playing a gig at a club or other venue I spend most of my time outside in the bus with the roadies as all but one of them smoke and we leave him in the venue watching the gear so the smike doesn't bother him,although I must admit the last 2 crew members we took on I made sure were smokers...nicer no not interested in paying money to stand outside all night so I don't freely go to them,mind you I am tee total and drunks get on my nerves more than someone smoking especially drunk women .
Ah another thing,kids and pubs no no no you are wrong to take them there...people want a break from kids,wifes,husbands and the pub is where they do it,keep your kids at home...
2007-12-11 22:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by SkinAnInk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's ridiculous to get the law involved. If some people want smoke-free venues (and clearly they do) then one would expect some owners to voluntarily enforce smoking bans in their own establishments in order to attract those people. At the same time, the demand from other people for pubs that allow smoking would see some continue to do so. Market forces have a way of giving everyone what they want. Or as many people as is profitable, anyway.
2007-12-12 00:26:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's very lonely because all the smokers stay home, as do all the non-smokers who were behind the ban and promised to flock to the smoke free pubs and didn't.
2007-12-11 21:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Non-smoker and I think its much nicer - our local is just as busy, but I can now go in there and not have stinky smokey hair in the morning. My other half is a smoker (and has to go out of the house to indulge) and he has cut down as a result.. when we go to the pub he can no longer light up out of habit and actually has to think about whether or not he really wants a ciggy - can't believe that it has taken so long for the ban to come about.
2007-12-11 21:52:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes - much nicer. All the pubs and restaurants I go to are just a busy as before the ban.
The smokers had theri little tanturm and threwe their teddy out of the pram, and now its setlling down and better for everyone.
2007-12-11 21:49:27 · answer #8 · answered by Marky 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it strange that all these people, both smokers and non smokers who are car drivers never complain about when they are walking round the streets of a busy City breathing in the toxic fumes of ten thousand vehicle exhausts every day?
2007-12-11 22:15:24 · answer #9 · answered by ADRIAN H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a non smoker and think it is great that that the smoking ban is in force. I used to hate how my clothes stank after being in a smoky pub more than anything else.
2007-12-11 22:11:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋