smoking and the pub - Page 89

Shaun · 01-12-2006, 16:08

Personally I cant see the issue with popping outside for 3 min while you top up your addiction with carcinogenic drugs.

I'd not like to see a Heroin addict shooting up in the pub but at least they'd not make me smell like an ashtray.

Saying that I live with a guy who smokes but never in the house and only in pubs if everyone doesn't mind so I guess I'm used to seeing people take their dirty habit outside.

**Hugh** · 01-12-2006, 17:38

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Personally I cant see the issue with popping outside for 3 min while you top up your addiction with carcinogenic drugs.

I'd not like to see a Heroin addict shooting up in the pub but at least they'd not make me smell like an ashtray.

Saying that I live with a guy who smokes but never in the house and only in pubs if everyone doesn't mind so I guess I'm used to seeing people take their dirty habit outside.

I thought monks were supposed to be celibate?

orangebird · 01-12-2006, 17:40

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Personally I cant see the issue with popping outside for 3 min while you top up your addiction with carcinogenic drugs.

I'd not like to see a Heroin addict shooting up in the pub but at least they'd not make me smell like an ashtray.

Saying that I live with a guy who smokes but never in the house and only in pubs if everyone doesn't mind so I guess I'm used to seeing people take their dirty habit outside.

There's a sodding great difference between ciggies and heroin. What a silly comparison.

hatedbythemail · 01-12-2006, 17:55

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Originally Posted by orangebird

There's a sodding great difference between ciggies and heroin. What a silly comparison.

eeh, you're a bit touchy on this subject o'b. are you in a no-smoking environnment this afty?

orangebird · 01-12-2006, 18:05

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Originally Posted by hatedbythemail

eeh, you're a bit touchy on this subject o'b. are you in a no-smoking environnment this afty?

It's going to ruin my local (where I also work part time) trade, all this no smoking ********. There are penty of pubs around that have got designated no smoking areas etc etc etc. This frigging govt. They'll be telling me how mcuh chinese takeaway I shouldn't be eating next. Or maybe fining me for having more than the unit amount of alcohol recommend for a female. Seriously, wtf is going on in this country?

TheDaddy · 01-12-2006, 18:11

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Originally Posted by orangebird

They'll be telling me how mcuh chinese takeaway I shouldn't be eating next.

They already have, I seem to remember something about soy sauce not so long ago

hatedbythemail · 01-12-2006, 18:24

hmm. ingestion of your chinese takeway doesn't affect others though.

well it might but let's not go there eh

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Originally Posted by orangebird

Seriously, wtf is going on in this country?

er, its becoming more like ireland, norway, italy, malta, sweden, the us, france (ban just announced), scotland, canada......

(ok, i'm going into hiding now

)

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...iran, australia, bhutan, montenegro, netherlands, tanzania

(yikes. wheres me hard hat)

TheDaddy · 01-12-2006, 18:55

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Originally Posted by hatedbythemail

hmm. ingestion of your chinese takeway doesn't affect others though.

Course it does when you are dead through to much 3 DCP or what ever it's called, I am sure your cruel family will miss you

and besides surely after people have gorged themselves senseless they, will be blocking beds that could be better used for smokers

Escapee · 01-12-2006, 19:05

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Originally Posted by orangebird

It's going to ruin my local (where I also work part time) trade, all this no smoking ********. There are penty of pubs around that have got designated no smoking areas etc etc etc. This frigging govt. They'll be telling me how mcuh chinese takeaway I shouldn't be eating next. Or maybe fining me for having more than the unit amount of alcohol recommend for a female. Seriously, wtf is going on in this country?

The ban comes in sooner in Wales, I have been surprised by many of the comments in my local from the smokers. I have been surprised how many of them don't seem to mind the ban, we only have one pub in town that's a no smoking pub and it does a very healthy trade. (No pun intended)

The landlady in my local is a heavy smoker, but she seems quite happy with the ban. She will at least not have to put up with people like myself who complain about having to wash their coat after every visit to the pub or get home from the pub and shower before bed.

the other advantage is not getting your clothes burned or being burned by someone with a fag, the latter happened to me whilst being served at the bar last weekend.

**Hugh** · 01-12-2006, 21:08

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Originally Posted by Escapee

The ban comes in sooner in Wales, I have been surprised by many of the comments in my local from the smokers. I have been surprised how many of them don't seem to mind the ban, we only have one pub in town that's a no smoking pub and it does a very healthy trade. (No pun intended)

The landlady in my local is a heavy smoker, but she seems quite happy with the ban. She will at least not have to put up with people like myself who complain about having to wash their coat after every visit to the pub or get home from the pub and shower before bed.

the other advantage is not getting your clothes burned or being burned by someone with a fag, the latter happened to me whilst being served at the bar last weekend.

http://www.caterersearch.com/Article...moking-ban.htm
"Punch said the introduction of outside smoking areas and better pub amenities, often including a quality food offer could not only negate the ban but lead to new opportunities.
The company, which said it was well advanced in its preparations for England and Wales, has set aside a smoking fund of ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£18m to support publicans in their preparations."

Salu · 01-12-2006, 21:21

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Originally Posted by orangebird

It's going to ruin my local (where I also work part time) trade, all this no smoking ********. There are penty of pubs around that have got designated no smoking areas etc etc etc. This frigging govt. They'll be telling me how mcuh chinese takeaway I shouldn't be eating next. Or maybe fining me for having more than the unit amount of alcohol recommend for a female. Seriously, wtf is going on in this country?

It's not so much about you OB but others.

**Hugh** · 01-12-2006, 21:23

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Originally Posted by Salu

It's not so much about you OB but others.

Trust him, he's a doctor.

TheDaddy · 01-12-2006, 21:24

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

Trust him, he's a doctor.

So was Crippen

**Hugh** · 01-12-2006, 21:27

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

So was Crippen

But he wasn't a real doctor (and he was a Yank).
http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/dr_crippen.htm
"Hawley Harvey Crippen was born in Michigan, USA, in 1862. When he was 21 he came to England to improve his medical knowledge. He obtained a diploma, which was endorsed by the Faculty of the Medical College of Philadelphia, and in 1885 Crippen acquired another diploma, as an eye and ear specialist, from the Ophthalmic Hospital in New York. These qualifications were not sufficient for Crippen to practice as a Doctor in the UK."

I am sure Salu's is a proper MD (not one of the D.Phil's or Ph.D's), and he did not qualify in the Caribbean

TheDaddy · 01-12-2006, 21:29

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

But he wasn't a real doctor (and he was a Yank).
http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/dr_crippen.htm
"Hawley Harvey Crippen was born in Michigan, USA, in 1862. When he was 21 he came to England to improve his medical knowledge. He obtained a diploma, which was endorsed by the Faculty of the Medical College of Philadelphia, and in 1885 Crippen acquired another diploma, as an eye and ear specialist, from the Ophthalmic Hospital in New York. These qualifications were not sufficient for Crippen to practice as a Doctor in the UK."

I am sure Salu's is a proper MD (not one of the D.Phil's or Ph.D's), and he did not qualify in the Caribbean

I am sure he isn't a murderer as well