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View Poll Results: would you like a smoking ban where you are
Yes 5 17.86%
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Old 03-29-2004, 12:51 PM   #11
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Actually, the ban here is on smoking in enclosed workplaces. This just happens to include pubs, restaurants and most other places indoors. People will still be able to go outside for a smoke. I think it's still allowed in prisons, hotels and nursing homes as well. But most people have been complaing about banning it in the pubs.

The government are making a big show of enforcing the ban. They've employed inspectors to check pubs and are giving out €3,000 fines to any place where the law is repeatedly broken. I don't know if it's going to hold up but I hope it does.

Most of my mates who smoke are in favour of the ban, at least they were until we were sitting in the bar today. It took five minutes before they cracked and went outside for a smoke.
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Old 03-29-2004, 02:52 PM   #12
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Actually, the ban here is on smoking in enclosed workplaces. This just happens to include pubs, restaurants and most other places indoors. People will still be able to go outside for a smoke. I think it's still allowed in prisons, hotels and nursing homes as well. But most people have been complaing about banning it in the pubs.

The government are making a big show of enforcing the ban. They've employed inspectors to check pubs and are giving out €3,000 fines to any place where the law is repeatedly broken. I don't know if it's going to hold up but I hope it does.

Most of my mates who smoke are in favour of the ban, at least they were until we were sitting in the bar today. It took five minutes before they cracked and went outside for a smoke.
Must've been nice when you got home and your clothes and hair didn't stink of smoke though ?
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Old 03-29-2004, 05:14 PM   #13
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If there's ever a smoking ban in bars where I live, I'll get my pitchfork.
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Old 03-29-2004, 05:35 PM   #14
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If there's ever a smoking ban in bars where I live, I'll get my pitchfork.
And then you'll smoke it ? [img]graemlins/hippysmile.gif[/img]

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Old 03-29-2004, 05:44 PM   #15
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I very much support a ban on public smoking. God bless them. I don't want to go to a bar or restaurant and have to breathe in smoker's garbadge.
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Old 03-29-2004, 06:16 PM   #16
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And then you'll smoke it ? [img]graemlins/hippysmile.gif[/img]
No. That's what my rope is for. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]
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Old 03-29-2004, 06:24 PM   #17
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You mean even while the planes are being refuelled??
LOL [img]graemlins/troutslap.gif[/img] Thats always been banned, What 'they' are enforcing now is those that pop outside the hanger doors for a quick nail though they may be hundreds of meters from any aircraft.

Timber the ban in pubs causes problems for the first 6 months to a year then people just get used it and accept it, even most of the hardened smokers. And to those bars that hold out for a while soon come into line when an employee starts to take them to court [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] The power of lawyers eh! [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]
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Old 03-29-2004, 06:37 PM   #18
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Oh, sure, Wellard, it's amazing how easily we adapt to limits to our liberty. Maybe we should wall off a part of town and let the smokers live there.
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Old 03-29-2004, 06:44 PM   #19
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A ban on smoking inside I can see(except in bars), but A ban on smoking outside?
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Old 03-29-2004, 07:56 PM   #20
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Oh, sure, Wellard, it's amazing how easily we adapt to limits to our liberty. Maybe we should wall off a part of town and let the smokers live there.
The old liberty argument! You KNOW that one goes both ways Timber [img]tongue.gif[/img] And if anyone tries to exercise there liberty of smoking in a pub (bar) restaurant near my asthmatic son they will find a bill of rights sticking out of where the sun don’t shine. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

[img]graemlins/smokybounce.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/shooter04.gif[/img]

Freedom to a safe work place and freedom to breathe are IMO the higher cards to play and will win any game. Now private bars with membership (club) may be a different matter but I'm talking public bars and restaurants here.
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