Stop smoking, England!

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Your little Island will become as healthy as your immediate westward neighbour, I read?

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

LazCorp quit just in time

IZ.

[lazarus corporation]

Your little Island will become as healthy as your immediate westward neighbour, I read?

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

LazCorp quit just in time

IZ.

yes, good timing on my part (I'm still very successfully non-smoking, by the way) but I'm against this anti-smoking legislation.

If I go into a pub I expect other people to smoke, and I'm quite happy for them to do so.

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Your little Island will become as healthy as your immediate westward neighbour, I read?

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

LazCorp quit just in time

IZ.

yes, good timing on my part (I'm still very successfully non-smoking, by the way) but I'm against this anti-smoking legislation.

If I go into a pub I expect other people to smoke, and I'm quite happy for them to do so.

My feelings exactly. I quit smoking, too, and I have to agree that a pub without smokers seems somewhat eerie and unnatural...

I went to Ireland a few times already. Last year was the last time I went, and no smoking was allowed in pubs or restaurants. A lot of locals went on grumbling about this damned rule, but they grudgingly accepted it. Or they went for a smoke in the backyard of their fave pub.

I can understand the smoking ban in restaurants or places where you can eat something in general, but a smoking ban in pubs is something I cannot understand myself. Just stay polite and have some respect for each other, smoker and non-smoker alike.

IZ.

[timsinister]

Everytime I make my mind up to get off this rock, they go and rock my faith in mankind's ability to f**k itself up.

Well done.

[Brideoffrankenstein]

I dont mind people smoking in pubs at all - it's to be expected. People do go to pubs to relax after all. If they can't smoke then they might as well just stay at home. As a non-smoker I find it a bit irritating when I go somewhere where my smoking friends can't smoke and they have to go outside and I get left to "mind the table" .

However it is nice to *finally* have a boyfriend that doesn't smoke after having previously been out with (and currently living with) several very heavy smokers

[boudicca]

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

*ponders whether to make a comment that will upset young Timothy...*

[emilystrange]

i only ever went out with one bloke who smoked, while i was still at school.
and that was the LAST time.

[Johnny M]

Tell you what Izzy. The day you change your avatar so you stop looking like that ponce Bono, I'll stop smoking. Can't say fairer than that in front of ( ...has a quick check ...) 869 public witnesses.

Over to you.

[andymackem]

Smoking. Never done it, never liked it. Always said it was the quickest way a girl could get shot of me. That, or supporting West Ham

So how is it that my current number one target smokes, and it doesn't bother me that much?

I have to add that for me, at least, less smoky pubs would see me using them more. But I've no problem with exercising my freedom to do something else with my evenings.

Maybe I'd be more enthusiastic about smoke-free bars if I had to work in one?

[Johnny M]

It was the quickest way a girl could get shot of me. That, or supporting West Ham

West ham ...maybe.

So how is it that my current number one target smokes, and it doesn't bother me that much?

A crazy lil thing, non-hammerite called *cough * love * cough *

[Black Alice]

I don't smoke, and never have, but I think that it is the height of incivility to expect people to stand outside to smoke - particularly outside a pub.

When were pubs ever supposed to be healthy environments - you go there to give your liver a hammering and socialise, so sod the lungs as well

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

*ponders whether to make a comment that will upset young Timothy...*

It was never my intention to make ambiguous comments.

IZ.

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Tell you what Izzy. The day you change your avatar so you stop looking like that ponce Bono, I'll stop smoking. Can't say fairer than that in front of ( ...has a quick check ...) 869 public witnesses.

Over to you.

If I had to change my avatar as frequently as you change your ID, my provider would put me on smallband for the rest of my already short life.

So light one up for me, Gandalf, and make me some smoke-boats *CACKH! CACKH! CACKH!*

IZ.

[Johnny M]

If I had to change my avatar as frequently as you change your ID, my provider would put me on smallband for the rest of my already short life.

So light one up for me, Gandalf, and make me some smoke-boats *CACKH! CACKH! CACKH!*

IZ.

Watch out for this man guys. He will go far.

FFS Iz, I won't to stop. Ho hum.

[Izzy HaveMercy]

If I had to change my avatar as frequently as you change your ID, my provider would put me on smallband for the rest of my already short life.

So light one up for me, Gandalf, and make me some smoke-boats *CACKH! CACKH! CACKH!*

IZ.

Watch out for this man guys. He will go far.

FFS Iz, I won't to stop. Ho hum.

Rather strange I never had a discussion with you before, Johnny... You are well worth the challenge... What with me being Belgian and unadept in the usage of the English language and stuff I'm easy to overpower

IZ.

[Johnny M]

Change your avatar.

[Izzy HaveMercy]

Change your avatar.

Make me

IZ.

[Johnny M]

I can't. Bono-look-a-like.

So I think we're back to square one.

Do it. You know you can.

Please ..?

[Andrew S]

As a non-smoker I find it a bit irritating when I go somewhere where my smoking friends can't smoke and they have to go outside and I get left to "mind the table" .

Much though I find it hypocritical to enforce such legislation on public houses, I for one will p*ss myself laughing at smokers having to suffer or stand outside to smoke. I get bloody pissed off coming home stinking of smoke everytime I've been at the pub and as most of my friends are non-smokers, I have real problems getting them to go to a pub, mainly because of the smokey atmosphere. If the smoking ban makes a difference, hallelujah! Still, I'm not comfortable with people being told what the can and cannot do on their own property or businesses.

[Andrew S]

Much though I find it hypocritical to enforce such legislation on public houses, I for one will p*ss myself laughing at smokers having to suffer or stand outside to smoke.

Oh, and if this ban is enforced throughout the UK, I suspect that Eldritch will be one of the ones caught having a fly puff in the toilets when the smoke alarms go off

[Francis]

I won't to stop.

Now there's a Freudian slip if ever I've seen one.

The main reason I don't go out to pubs with my 'friends' is because none of them smokes. That's why I attend as many Heartland gatherings as I can.

It's always amazed me why any woman would smoke when it ages the skin and makes you smell and taste like an ashtray. But it's a good job some of them do, or I'd still be a virgin.

[Ed Rhombus]

Since I stopped smoking, I've jumped the ship, big style.

I don't mind smoking in pubs that much, when there is good ventilation.

But I tell you, singing in a smoke filled venue with no air con is hell. It often takes a day or two to clear the system.

[Almiche V]

I don't mind smoking in pubs - especially if it keeps children out. So if we're to have no smoking pubs, then is it a drive to make them more family-happy places by the government? Maybe they think it's one way to tackle binge drinking. Let's face it, they're mad enough.

[timsinister]

Ah, yay for a fagless Britain!

*ponders whether to make a comment that will upset young Timothy...*

You just live to annoy me, don't you? Well, at least I'm satisfying a woman...

[markfiend]

Anyone trying to stop me smoking in a pub can kiss the fattest part of my ass.

They can f*ck off. Nanny statism at its worst. They have the health warnings. We know it's bad for us. What are you supposed to do? Just stay at home and smoke there? I won't stand for smokers being made second-class citizens.

It p!sses me off when you get people -- random strangers -- can feel quite happy about stopping you in the street when you're smoking and start pretending to cough and say "don't you know what you're doing to yourself with that filthy habit?" Well, yeah, and I don't care.

I tell you what, I'm going to start hanging round McDonalds and start haranguing people coming out with the same sort of sh!t. "Ooh you disgusting fat slob! Did you not see Supersize me? God the harm you're doing to yourself with that cr@p!"

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