Smoking Ban Heating Up
I have just read the newsletter from the smoking club and I cant believe that MPs are now saying that patio heaters should be banned as they pollute the air as well! I think they are getting too petty against us smokers. I think that Simon Clark from Forest is right and they cant atand the thought that we may actually survive in having to smoke outside and that the idea of a smoking ban is not going to stop us.
What is going to happen in the summer months when non-smokers decide they want to sit outside and eat their food and enjoy a drink? Are we going to be sent further afield to enjoy our nicotine? We cant smoke inside pubs or restaurants and I can see us struggling to smoke outside?
When I go out in town at night with friends I have yet to find a pub in the town centre that will allow you to take your drink outside with you, (not all pubs have a garden area especially in town centres) what do we do if we all smoke are our drinks going to be looked after by someone responsible we can trust, I will not feel happy leaving my drink on a table for someone to spike my dink-potantially.
Also there is enough trouble in town at nights (especially weekends) with fights etc when people are going from one pub to the next without increasing the amount of alcohol filled people outside pubs and clubs...the police struggle to deal with the trouble now let alone when the smoking ban comes into force!
I feel our government have not thought about the logistics of their ludicrous actions but I dont suppose many (if not any) of them are likely to actually go out on the town, let their hair down and have fun, afterall they will all be using their private clubs where they can smoke til the cows come home if thats their CHOICE. We need to find a way of making them see it is not just them who have the freedom of CHOICE and that we should all be allowed freedom of CHOICE rather than being dictated to all the time, if we dont win this then we are looking at being forced further and further away from a country where we should be able to socialise when, where and with who we want to and we will end up in the dark alleys smoking....so long as a non-smoker doesnt want to use that alley!
What is going to happen in the summer months when non-smokers decide they want to sit outside and eat their food and enjoy a drink? Are we going to be sent further afield to enjoy our nicotine? We cant smoke inside pubs or restaurants and I can see us struggling to smoke outside?
When I go out in town at night with friends I have yet to find a pub in the town centre that will allow you to take your drink outside with you, (not all pubs have a garden area especially in town centres) what do we do if we all smoke are our drinks going to be looked after by someone responsible we can trust, I will not feel happy leaving my drink on a table for someone to spike my dink-potantially.
Also there is enough trouble in town at nights (especially weekends) with fights etc when people are going from one pub to the next without increasing the amount of alcohol filled people outside pubs and clubs...the police struggle to deal with the trouble now let alone when the smoking ban comes into force!
I feel our government have not thought about the logistics of their ludicrous actions but I dont suppose many (if not any) of them are likely to actually go out on the town, let their hair down and have fun, afterall they will all be using their private clubs where they can smoke til the cows come home if thats their CHOICE. We need to find a way of making them see it is not just them who have the freedom of CHOICE and that we should all be allowed freedom of CHOICE rather than being dictated to all the time, if we dont win this then we are looking at being forced further and further away from a country where we should be able to socialise when, where and with who we want to and we will end up in the dark alleys smoking....so long as a non-smoker doesnt want to use that alley!
posted by Lost, Lonely and Confused at 11:58 AM
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