Smoking Ban

RE: Inflicting serious lung damage

I read an article a while ago that said more harmful particles were in the smoke that came off the end of a cigarette than what is inhaled from the cigarette by the smoker, due to the filter on the cigarette. The smoker still takes in more because they also take in from the surrounding air as well as from smoking the cigarette.

 

RE: Inflicting serious lung damage

That the pub chains and "plastic" pubs ripped out to make bigger rooms!

 

Interesting

I was in Rhythm & Booze earlier and the assistant was commenting that they've sold far more cigs today than they usually do!
Now whether that is due to an increase in customers and people were stopping in tonight and buying some booze at the same time I don't know.

 

Do you mean in the stands?

It doesn't necessarily apply there as it isn't enclosed, however the FA and FL have introduced it to the whole stadium for football.

 

In Scotland bars and pubs don't seem to have suffered...

...that much? Having lived here pre and post smoking ban the numbers of people out in pubs and bars seems to have stayed relatively the same. Bars and clubs have opened roof terraces or fenced off areas outside their entrances, offering brollies to punters and I've even seen those roadworks tents sheltering clubbers outside some clubs in Glasgow. I think the ban has been a good thing and anything that stops smoking in restaurants is a winner for me.

One type of business that has suffered are the Bingo Halls...numbers have dropped as the grannies can't sit there puffing away with there dobbers!

 

I know a lot of pubs, bars and clubs that have broken the law before then if that's the case

 

RE: In Scotland bars and pubs don't seem to have suffered...

Heard on tv that some bingo halls have set up shelters outside and there are speakers in so they can still play bingo!

 

as an ex smoker........

i will be happy not having to come home after a few pints stinking of the smoke

but i do think that it should have been that ventilated enclosed sections would be ok so thy dont have t be thrown outdside

 

Cant see a problem with it myself, it only seems fair

 

Malta have had a ban on smoking in Pubs for quite a while

except if the pub provides a separate room , with separate entrance and separate toilets and separate bar.

I loved being able to go in a pub and not come out stinking of stale smoke. If people want to smoke OK let them , but I dont , so it is only fair that I should not be forced to inhale other peoples toxins. 80% of the harmful toxins are airborne whilst only 20% are inhaled by the smoker, so therefore the other people in the room are at as great a risk as the actual smoker.

This Government has brought in some ***** laws and Regulations , but this is the Best Law EVER. (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y)

 

RE: Malta have had a ban on smoking in Pubs for quite a while

shut the **** up

 

Did you drink all your freebies at Dinnertime? nt

 

RE: Did you drink all your freebies at Dinnertime? nt

6 pints, 3 fags, aint I just a good un, 50 since I came home tho

 

If passive smoking was a genuine problem,there would be a well known industrial disease called Barmans Lung,cancer causes are often impossible to pin down,whilst I have every sympathy for Roy Castle's family,the government have shown (to my knowledge)no other cases of similar types of musician,developing this disease,perhaps Roys illness was genetic or perhaps some other factor in his past.The govt line has been just to say 'this is fact' rather than just theory.This of course,the same govt who assured us of Iraqs WMDs 45minute readiness.Surely a compromise could have been reached,with a properly filtered and ventilated smokers room.
I have been in the trade for 20years,and I can say that many,perhaps most,Pubs and Clubs in this country are just hanging on. people currently saying how great it will be to go in to smoke free pubs,may have to accept that in the near future(I hope I am wrong)the pubs they wish to visit,will no longer be there,particularly the street corner local whose main trade is Beer as opposed to the multi national owned food outlets that only give lip service to the heritage of the traditional british pub.

 

One of the most sucessful pubs in town has been smokefree since it opened

Joseph Brammhah, I know that you can smoke outside in the courtyard, but Inside its a pleasure to be in