smoking and the pub

[clarie]

Originally Posted by SlackDad

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

You can't compare the numbers of deaths caused by vehicle emmissions to the number of bar staff deaths caused by passive smoking, now come on...

[lippy]

Clarie,is it true that you want to enter a place where smoking is allowed and you'd like the people who smoke to be somewhere different?

Yes or no!

[clarie]

Originally Posted by lippy

Clarie,is it true that you want to enter a place where smoking is allowed and you'd like the people who smoke to be somewhere different?

lippy, what I want is for smoking to be banned in all enclosed public places, and for the pubs and restaurants where there are a lot of smoking customers, a sealed room or an outhouse to be provided.

Originally Posted by orangebird

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.

1. It's not about liking/disliking smoking, it's about health and protecting staff as they are in other work environments
2. Job choice might not be there, idiot or not (though idiots probably have less job choice)
3. I'm bored

Originally Posted by SlackDad

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

A cleverly edited statistic which, of course, factors *in* all deaths from emissions, yet factors *out* all deaths from passive smoke except bar staff.

(Although, in fact, the original article does not say vehicle emissions, it says air pollution, most of which is from vehicles )

[lippy]

Was that a yes or no to my question?

Originally Posted by punky

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

Reike's better for you

[clarie]

Originally Posted by andyl

3. I'm bored

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It was a no lippy. Although depends on what you intended by your question.

[punky]

Originally Posted by andyl

Reike's better for you

I don't go for that hippy rubbish, I just shout and slam things

[lippy]

No!...good stay out of the pub then!

[SlackDad]

Originally Posted by clarie

You can't compare the numbers of deaths caused by vehicle emmissions to the number of bar staff deaths caused by passive smoking, now come on...

I didn't I'm using the figures and argument that George Monbiot uses here
Comes down to priorities for me.

[clarie]

Originally Posted by lippy

No!...good stay out of the pub then!

You're not making sense now...

And nor is that a reasonable thing to suggest.

[SlackDad]

Originally Posted by Chris T

(Although, in fact, the original article does not say vehicle emissions, it says air pollution, most of which is from vehicles )

Now who's being pedantic

Good point about masturbation though

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by punky

I don't go for that hippy rubbish, I just shout and slam things

I bet that makes you sore in the morning

[clarie]

Originally Posted by SlackDad

I didn't I'm using the figures and argument that George Monbiot uses here
Comes down to priorities for me.

These figures don't even consider the non-smokers who aren't working in the pubs.

Furthermore as we have said so many times, the ban on smoking in public places doesn't mean we cannot address the car fumes problem as well.