Re: smoking and the pub
 

No. I was actually referring to lippy's comment that 'let's just wait and see how long it will be before the non-smokers try and come into the smoking room.'
Perhaps you are not making yourself clear. Please explain how I am contradicting myself.
:tu:
Not comparably so.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Sorry, but as the law is not in already, I feel fairly safe in assuming that anyone that currently wokrs in a pub isn't too fussed about smoking. You've have to be a complete and utter idiot to take a job like that if you don't like smoke.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

The analogy isn't consistent with the smoking argument. Drunk drivers kill innocent people. People don't choose to be in a drunk driver's path. There is no choice there.

I am talking about giving non-smokers the choice wether they want to be next to smokers or not.

Firefighting, police work is risky work, but you can't devise laws to stop people taking those jobs. You have to let people decide how much risk they want to take for themselves.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Very comparably so to those who need them in the same way that someone needs a car. Smoking for some is a huge coping mechanism.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Fags aren't functional, was the point I was making

Re: smoking and the pub
 

WTF?? How do you come up with these assumptions?

Nealry every single non smoker i know, doesn't care about passive smoking.
In fact, at work they all come out to the smoking area.
I haven't met many anti smokers in my life at all- so what makes you think that everyone who works in a smoking bar ahould be either a smoker or an idiot?

Re: smoking and the pub
 

When we covered that aspect, however, we also learned, did we not, that smoking contributes to depression in those that later quit as it depresses production of serotonin, and that it masks mental health issues from being professionally dealt with because smokers 'self medicate' (and, ironically, poison themselves in the process).

I think that in the long term, the nation's mental health would still be better without tobacco. No serotonin deficiency, and professional help for those who need it, rather than a poisonous habit.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

To you. To others they are a stress release mechanism.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

This thread makes me need a fag.......:rofl::devsmoke::smokin:

:D

Re: smoking and the pub
 

So is masturbation. Thank your stars they're not making that illegal. :D

Re: smoking and the pub
 

I have no idea what sort of responses you would get if you told all smokers that they either have it quit, or give up their cars. But anyway the point is, if you looked at the population as a whole, and asked what was more important, cigarettes, or cars, you know what response you would get.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Oi!!! :bsmack: :)

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Coming ( :erm: *ahem*) from the guy that wears glasses - you know it makes you blind, don't you :D

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Quite possibly so, and this is why we have 39000 deaths from vehicle emmisons and 59 bar staff deaths from passive smoking.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Haha, I've got strange thoughts about sealed off rooms in pubs now...:shocked: