**** runs Barnsley (the town, not the football club) http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/2,0000,1772.html
I think its a great idea. Why should non smokers have to run a gauntlet of stale tobacco smoke if they want to enter the premises
Unelected faceless bureaucrats led by a Chief Executive who I don't think even lives in the town.</p> Waste of time voting for councillors, they can do **** all. The pen-pushers rule.</p>
mmm where do you start,burden to the NHS,non smoking tax payers for one if people wish to kill themselves by smoking then fine,but let them pay for there healthcare via high taxation on cigarettes, not the non smoking taxpayers!
How about instead of taxing the smokers how about cracking down on the fat bone idle dole scroungers who are too lazy to go to the job centre to find employment. Or those who claim to be sick yet can go play football. As for a burden to the NHS theres the single mother baby poppers who drop 3 kids before they are twenty sitting at home on their fat saggy arses living off benefits not contributing a dime. What about the problems caused by binge drinking and yob culture? Dont forget this influx of foreign nationals who can use the NHS without paying or the fat cat manager inside th NHS swallowing up funding that should be spent on nurses and equipment. I read somewhere that the Barnsley NHS trust hd one manager to every full time nurse.
Personally i think you are being a bit of a jumped up lets get on the band wagon plonker. you have yet to give reasons why smokers should be banned/ made to pay higher fees fpor nhs care except for that they smoke. Which to be honest is a piss poor reason given that it can be argued smoking is a lesser evil than the current drinking culture and soon to be drug culture in the uk.