Re: smoking and the pub
 

Do you ask smokers if they have cancer before you allow them to sit next to you?

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Someone smoking next to you is horrrible all that smoke, which sticks to you, and doesnt smell nice either

Re: smoking and the pub
 

What's almost as bad is someone who's just been for a smoke sitting next to you and you get that attractive stale stench wafting over you too.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

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Re: smoking and the pub
 

The Riddler?

Re: smoking and the pub
 

But of course oral sex and sun bathing have never had any adverse effect on any third party. That's the point with passive smoking.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

No, just wondering what Russ meant by his statement.

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So, you're telling me that the transfer of human bodily fluids from someone who is HIV positive has never had an effect on, say for example, an unborn child? I'm sure that's an enormous psychologial and emotional relief to many of the pregnant women in the sub Saharan continent.

And women who contract melanoma during pregnancy have no residual impact on their unborn children?

Why, thank you......doctor.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Is it not blindingly obvious? When a smoker has just indulged in their addiction and returns to sit next to you (as happens to me in work on a daily basis), their stale stench fills the area you're sitting in.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Yes, it was blindingly obvious - which is why I asked.

So whilst you're quite content to run around exchanging bodily fluids with strangers in your lycra clad alter ego you take issue with the stale stench of smokers who comply with the law of the land by not polluting your personal space with their smoke (smell is different from actual smoke you do understand?).

Well pardon me all over the place Russ - but that's a very bizarre interpretaion of "love thy neighbour" & "Do unto others" if you don't mind me saying so.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Hey thanks Doctor, good to hear from you too!

Please keep killing yourself if you must but don't expect me to mourn come July 1st!

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Sorry, was that a rebuttal of what I said or are you just terminally pathetic at defending ill founded statements?

Re: smoking and the pub
 

The difference of course being that any strangers I'm exchanging bodily fluid with in my "lycra clad alter ego" are fully aware of what will happen and are completely accepting of this as it's part and parcel of the job.

Very poor analogy.

Actually I do mind, as that's a typically low, poor quality and uncalled-for dig at my faith on your part.

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Well I sort of gave up to be honest - I thought you were a bit thick with your original ridiculous statement about oral sex and skin cancer. Prove me wrong if you can!

Re: smoking and the pub
 

I will be quite happy about the ban when it comes into force and I really do not mind if people smell of smoke its upto them I inflict my farts on anyone near me when I need to blow and sometimes they smell a hell of a lot worse than smoke on clothes ;)

Re: smoking and the pub
 

Sorry Russ, but it shows your wanton disregard for your own health that you would get into a ring with a stranger without first insisting that they, beyond physical injury, don't represent a threat to your health - yet you're happy to bleat on about the "smell" of smokers who are complying with your right to be protected from the by products of their addiction - a perfectly good analogy I think you'll find.

Let's not get hung up on your "faith" perseution complex. I stated it was a bizarre interpretation of one of the tenets of your faith and that is exactly what it is - I'm not about to get into a theological debate over a display of your own contradictiory ignorance, sorry.

Lets move on and stick to the subject at hand.

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I think you'll find I already did.