Re: smoking and the pub
 

good link :)

I've recently given up smoking, and I found this post by Incognitas to be the most parallel to my mood :)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=119

Re: smoking and the pub
 

If you go to the sort of bars that have PC's then you can do both :)

<edit> and the sooner they ban smoking in pubs the better, I stank on Saturday after spending a night in my mums local :(

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Did no-one tell you that you stank before Saturday? ;)

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Reps would follow if it wasn't so obvious! ;)

Re: smoking and the pub
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4327072.stm

smoking to be banned everywhere now it seems with one reserved area allowed for smokers no food or drink allowed as well as staff...

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Why do all you non-smokers keep following us smokers around anyway? :erm:

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Blimey, a 12 month :bump:

Re: smoking and the pub
 

being in Ireland, it is a far better life in the bars now that smoking has been stopped for quite a while, and the smokers i pal about with don't actually mind going out side, as there are large canopies that still keep them sheltered from rain.
Admittley there was complaints to start with, but nobody seems to care about it any more now - thats how i perceive it.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4346802.stm
I'll be able to get out and enjoy myself better. but I dont understand why it is being left til 2007 before being implemented

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Nice one. :tu:

Got to give time for people and businesses to adapt to the change I guess.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Could you quote some figures and comments concerning the risk to health of passive and active drinking ? The costs to the health service of treatments in A&E ? Every RTC caused by a sober or drunk driver costs £250,00 0 ! Passive drinking is prevelant in every area, fights in the street, criminal damage to property, kids without enough to eat because the old man, or woman is boozing every night, time wasted in courts punishing offenders for drink related violence and mayhem. Assaults on NHS, police bar staff and law abiding citizens, damage to street furniture.
Then there are the medical costs of alcohol abuse treatment in an already shaky health service. My local hospital is £7 M overspent this year, non-urgent surgery is being cancelled.
As an abstainer I find passive drinking a scourge in society and cannot believe that people who swallow ethanol for "fun" are upset when some one lights up a cigarette. Hypocrites or what ?

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Perhaps when they ban smoking i'll go back into the pub.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Not sure if this has been suggested before but some mental health professionals are a little concerned about the potential increase in cases of depression if smoking is banned in pubs. Alcohol (depressant) + Nicotine (stimulant) = no change. Alcohol on its own = increase in depression. Just a thought anyway.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

IMO, banning smoking in pubs is possibly taking things a bit too far.

Having said that, as a smoker myself i'd probably go in the toilets for a sneaky one of it was cold outside anyway! Be like being at school again, except drunk:D.
I don't really care whether it happens or not, after all, there's not a lot i could do to stop it, i'll just follow the rules as they are enforced!

Re: smoking and the pub
 

You rebel :)