Brew cabin straw poll - Smoking or non-smoking

[hondacrm]

From the 1st July, smoking will no longer be allowed in enclosed public spaces and the workplace.
What are your views on this subject???

My vote says yes!

[lutonlagerlout]

smoking is a futile habit i say yes
LLL

[IanMelb]

Yes.

No more stinking like an ashtray after a night out...

The Mrs also reckons that it may be the push that she needs to kick the habit - something I've asked her to do for years

[Suggers]

Against the trend, I have to vote NO - I love a smoke - the missus and I are new roll-up converts.
Ian, what's it like, kissing an ashtray? - must be weird when one smokes and the other doesn't. Have suggested we both quit on July 1st - received an "old fashioned look" - the best we ever did was 3 months -
Will I have to give up the pub as well? A pint & a fag is a bit like bacon & eggs.
Also, I do enjoy the odd splifferoonie - been smokin hash since seeing the 'orrible Who at Watford Trade Hall in 1965.
But now, this horrible skunky grass stuff is not my cup of tea. How can I quit smoking, enjoy early doors at my boozer, yet have a relaxing smoke after dinner without nicotine?

[Suggers]

PS - my plumbing mate - "Piping Hot" - brilliant name, reckons the householder can't smoke in their own home when he's there - their home becomes his workplace?

[seanandruby]

I agree. As an ex smoker i can see and feel the benefits of quitting. My wife also quit, both of us 4 years ago. we can smell it on our friends and are horrified that we once stank like they do. i have the greatest willpower than anyone i know, i gave up booze, drugs, fags and gambling. I have bought a house and nice possessions since. go for it, after a few days it gets easy.

[Dave_L]

"If God designed us to smoke, he'd have put a chimney on our heads."

That's what I say to my wife!

I don't smoke, I agree with the enclosed spaces ban.

[seanandruby]

He did dave, but was a design error... he put it upside down, we call it a nose now. LOL :laugh:

[bobhughes]

I am in the yes lobby too. Gave up when they went up to 30p a packet. "I'm not paying that!" said I, and never did.

The thing about working in a smokers home has already come up - A council care worker refused to go in to a client's house on the grounds they smoked and the council tried to sack her. She won at a tribunal.

Also note the rule about vehicles - You can only smoke in a "work" vehicle if you are the only user - even if the other user is a smoker. (A work vehicle might be your private car if you use it at work).

I can see a few arguements coming up.....

[lutonlagerlout]

i am a smoker too!! noob that i am ,however i have given up on 3 occasions for 2 years plus,which shows giving up is easy its the staying giving up thats hard
i have been to Eire,Scotland and Italy in the last year and find there is no problem at all with not smoking in bars
all the doomsday lot that say it will kill pubs are wrong
i have the lozenges and plan to go for the final push in the next week or so,i want to be nicotine free before the ban comes in as it applies to football grounds as well,and i don't want to be stuck in a ground for 2 hrs gasping .
when you think about it, cigarettes are less than 100 years old,only invented to save soldiers time loading pipes during WW1,if the govt. really cared about us they would ban them altogether
<cough-cough> LLL

[Tony McC]

I'm an ex-smoker. Heart attack at 39 years of age due to stress, fags and bacon butties - I only needed telling once, and I've never smoked since. Funnily enough, I've never missed it, either. No withdrawal symptoms, no cravings, no faltering - maybe the morphine helped, but that was only for the first two or three days.

Mrs Taz still smokes, as does the Son and Heir, but I've got them worried as Warrington Council have just sent me a certificate to put up in the hallway for being a smoke-free business, and I've told the smelly brown-fingered twosome that this applies to the living room, not just my back-bedroom office!

[TarmacLady]

There's been a smoking ban here for several years now -- and there has certainly been no impact on the pub and restaurant trade...and it's so much nicer to not come home reeking.

[Stuarty]

im a non smoker, but lived with alot of my family smoking and just about all of my workmates past and present. To be quite honest, smoking has never really bothered me. Although i have noticed the lack of fogs in the pubs etc up here since the ban and since my 'wummin' stopped the fags she no longer has that stale fag smell no more
The lads smoke in the van, its against the law to do so, the only time their told to stop is when they start being smart and blowing it in my direction. No hesitation in launching them out at the nearest bus stop

[Dave_L]

Only one of our lads smokes and he has his own truck - but he's a [what I would call] a considerate smoker.

Th boss smokes a pipe - that isn't too bad - and again, he's a considerate smoker, but I would say that, wouldn't I? :0



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