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English Smoking Ban
Now you guys are for it... same as us.
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Ha ha ha-suck it up stinky
Oops sorry you can't now can you What a great day. |
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Now we just stand out on the sidewalks and blow in your face as you walk by.
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Hey-this is England-there's always a bracing breeze to blow it away outside.
And yappy, I ain't that old. I've just had an old fart's outlook since birth. |
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With respect to my smoking friends
I went to supper in a pub in Bristol last week and literally was driven out of the place half way through my meal due to the overwhelming cloud of smoke. The demarkation line hovered about four feet off the floor!
Too bad the ban doesn't cover the places where relief from smoke is impossible for the "inmates": adult care homes, hospices, offshore installations, submarines, police detention and interview rooms! Imagine being some octogenarian trapped in a room where the staff who push your wheelchair are choking you out with their smoke. Thank goodness I can go out to a pub in Canada and get pissy eyed without hacking up a lung! At least UK smokers won't freeze off delicate parts of their anatomy like our poor Canadian smokers! I genuinely sympathise being thin blooded myself. Mike
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In Ontario at least, we had sealed, ventilated smoking areas. Not any more though...
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Designated smoking areas
Yeah, I, for one, was quite happy with that option as it allowed me to make the choice to sit with my smoking buddies or go with the clean air. Thats the difference between do-gooders and good ole Canadian compromise... the do-gooders often go too far.
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Okay, okay, I shan't be cheeky to you anymore. I'll behave. Promise. Yappy |
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Re: Designated smoking areas
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I'd like the choice, if I had a biz, to cater to or non-smokers. I'd choose a place, of course Karmen |
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I get the feeling that a lot of people in our hobby/ ex forces have the same attitude and outlook (I'll admit that I might be more anti smoking than most though). |
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smoking ban
hi people, here in nz we have had the same smoking ban for a while now.its not working!.
at our local club the smokers go outside and so does the other patrons,altogether!,no one cares . now the p/c goody goodies are going crook about sigarete butts on the street outside bars. the ban has affected some bars to close from the lack of patronage. im sure that the idiots running things have gone to far.
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You've got a point, Ken. Some drinkers I know said to hell with bars when our ban came in on 31 May, and just chose to drink at home or with friends. More comfortable and cheaper to-boot.
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Come on you old Dinosaurs, if I have to wear a seatbelt in my own private vehicle then you can butt out. Sean
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LOL...
...bottom line is don't you just love interferring governments that make ' personal choice ' and freedom 'THEIR' responsibilty because it is an easy political target. God forbid shutting down toxic companies slowly poisoning the environment or legislating violence out of hockey night in Canada.
Light one up for me Old Salt, myself I will stick to cigarellos like Clint..."Dying ain't no way to make a living" Sean
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Our New Smoking Bans
Here they have made smoking illegal any were in public,
the only place one can smoke now is at home. Patrick |
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Oh, Ma Yappy is SOOOO bad to post this news article and rattle some cages about these CURRENTLY LEGAL drugs of choice many of us "enjoy" .... ... ... (don't me please ... am just passing this little thingy on about what's in the wind ... I think I can see sneaky stills and bootlegging of alcohol and tobacco and cops and courts being very busy with the astronomical numbers of tobacco and alcohol regular consumers ... ... Ma Yappy)
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hi carmen the idiots are at it again in NZ.
they are going to pass a no smacking bill . what does one do with an out of control child ? send it to the govt for them to look after? this stinks of nazi germany pre ww2 i think. on the smoking/drinking front, the govt gets good revenue from them,so what happens when its finally banned? we will get hit in the pocket to pay for the shortfall!. just my 2cents worth.
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I don't know "economy" or how it all works and is intertwined with so much else of life and lifestyle ... but I do know that when money stops going round and round, then so does everything else dependent on it. Yikes. Ma Yappy |
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Our tax on tobacco varies with brands but lies between 76% and 83% of the retail price raising 10.5 billion GBP for the chancellor and the recent budget has put another chunk on that again. Petrol of course already has 80%+ tax on it and diesel even more. With the country-wide smoking ban coming into force 1st July it will certainly reduce consumption and I think the C of Exc is hedging his bets to initially recoup the calculated revenue loss. The loss will not only be recovered by tobacco tax but elsewhere so the soft targets are again taxed, alcohol, petrol and a huge hike in annual road tax on large 4x4s (AKA private school busses). The anti-smokers better not crow too loudly as they are going to be hit for the shortfall and the tip of the iceberg is showing. We are being massaged into thinking about road pricing via a GPS in the car at the owners expense and will include EVERY vehicle road licensed, therefore your collection of old cars, and army trucks for that matter. I predict this and other measures are in hand to cover the non-smoking losses. The July 1 inception date throws up a few problems, that is all the beer tents and any marquee, at say, Beltring will have to be enforced as non-smoking; I already know this will be in effect at The Great Dorset Steam Fair http://www.gdsf.co.uk/ a 600 acre venue that makes Beltring look like a village fete and has hundreds of coal-fired (read smoke) steam engines together with probably 10 beer tents. I have just missed it for this year's Overlord (cancelled according to the MVT but that's just this year's stooping to lower levels) but for 2008 I think it will have to be non-smoking in the beer tent during the public hours but I think I can skirt round it for the evening entertainments when the site is private being outside public hours. I also have a problem that my limited company is registered here and I'm an employee, therefore I am obliged to place the regulation no smoking signs at the front and back doors, and stop myself smoking in my own house. I think I shall put Veare on the payroll as site safety officer to enforce this although her job description will require her to sleep, as currently, between 09:00 and 17:00. No wonder then that Mrs. Notton and I have recovered our pensions from the mean, parsimonious, marble fronted institutions and placed a spread of investments, with pro advice, under our direct control for four times the returns with a fixed plan to be out of here in three years time and re-located at the far end of the Med with council tax at 1/40th, income tax at 5%, petrol half price, baccy at 1/4 price and 300 days of sunshine a year. Have to go, the site safety officer is giving me stick about morning food break which I have to provide. R. |
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Back to munching on raw sweet crunchy carrots then a and a Karmy |
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Hey Geoff, now I know what was in those hookah pipes at that outdoor cafe in Ottawa! Flavored tobaccos ... not the funny stuff or some other funny stuff
Hookah Bars smoking to go too (logical) ? http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...h.bars.mxf.cnn K |
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Snooze-n teens
Well, the old snooze making a comeback, but with teens ... but this makes me wonder how many adult longtime smokers have already switched? I do know that I FREQUENTLY see empty COPENHAGEN containers tossed along the sidewalks and such. For a long time now, so maybe "Snooze-n" has been happening since the smoking bans started?
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