Smokers can do all or any of those things too smoking is not always exclusive!

I maybe come across as sanctimonius, but when you watch your darling mother die a horrid death from lung Cancer due to smoking from the age of 14, and wished she had never started, it just makes you very angry.

She always said she was grateful neither of her girls ever smoked nor her beloved grandchildren. It was too late for her but at least this generation can be saved from the dreaded weed with the help of the ban.

hi, i think your being unfair, not all smokers didnt give a stuff about non smokers, i would go outside for a cigarette way before the ban came in and so did alot of other smokers, i have noticed that most (not all) people who have given up smoking are more anti smoking than poeple who have never smoked, i also feel this country as gone to the dogs, this is meant to be free country, you have to watch what your doing & saying, no free speech nothing,

since the ban has come in both myself & hubby have found that when we go with our children to have a meal at a pub you have to walk through the smokers due to them standing right in front of the door, this is no good to have to walk your children through the smoke, there should be a room for smokers get a bar person who smokes to serve them, lets face it who will the goverment be picking on next ummmmmmmm maybe some thing you like.....

i have been stopped smoking 3 weeks hubby 4 years but i tell you some thing i would never moan about a smoker its everyones OWN CHOICE,

 

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hi, i think your being unfair, not all smokers didnt give a stuff about non smokers, i would go outside for a cigarette way before the ban came in and so did alot of other smokers, i have noticed that most (not all) people who have given up smoking are more anti smoking than poeple who have never smoked, i also feel this country as gone to the dogs, this is meant to be free country, you have to watch what your doing & saying, no free speech nothing,

since the ban has come in both myself & hubby have found that when we go with our children to have a meal at a pub you have to walk through the smokers due to them standing right in front of the door, this is no good to have to walk your children through the smoke, there should be a room for smokers get a bar person who smokes to serve them, lets face it who will the goverment be picking on next ummmmmmmm maybe some thing you like.....

i have been stopped smoking 3 weeks hubby 4 years but i tell you some thing i would never moan about a smoker its everyones OWN CHOICE,

Can i just say , well done you, don't know why you gave up, but i'd like to think it had something to do with you lovely children. I agree with you about walking through to fog to get to the door, but thing is, short of banning all areas in and out they are going to stand by that door however much its annoying. I'd like then to move further away as when your inside it all blows in anyway its just vile.

absolute rubbish, many people have died from lung cancer and the like who never smoked or were near smokers, my grandmother lived until she was 97 and that was in a house full of smokers, there is much much worse out there and more people draining the nhs than smokers! ps smoking never broke up a family and caused the distress that alcahol does why not ban that!

Yep, why not ban that?!!!!!!! The usual old chestnut about my grandmother lived till etc etc, well, she might have lived till she was 110!

Its still a vile habit, end of.

who wants to live to 110, not too many in this era i'm sure, why dont we just stop people being allowd to live as they want to,  while wer at it,  abolish pubs clubs etc. ban stereo's in cars, curfews on everybody to be in the house by 10pm ,dictate  to us every thing we are allowd and not allowd to do!

The smoking debate will go round and round.  You will get considerate smokers and inconsiderate smokers, and considerate non-smokers and inconsiderate non-smokers.  From my experience it is the people who used to smoke who are the worst.  Sometimes they claim to be incredibly healthy and seem to completely forget that they used to smoke possibly like chimneys themselves, regardless of whether they have been smoke-free for a week or 5 years.  I say some, not all.  I do smoke, but I have always lived in a house of non-smokers (as in never smoked).  I have always gone outside to smoke so the ban doesn't really affect me or feel any different.  I have never liked people smoking in restaurants.  Before the ban came in some shopping centres banned smoking and then the eateries designated smoking areas within their establishments.  That was horrendous, and really the smoke was then condensed to a far smaller area.  There were places though that had decent filtering systems and smokers could merrily puff away without causing a smog.  Smokers want their rights and non-smokers want their rights.  Perhaps we just have to grin and bear it on both sides.  The Government certainly don't really want everyone to give up.  They get far too much revenue.

Why is it an old chestnut? Smoking may be a vile habit but to dismiss a valid point in such a terse and frankly rude manner wont change anyones mind. I must agree with the point regarding alcohol and oh the outcry there would be if you banned that!!

As a previous poster said people will always have differing views on this subject- thats what makes reading them so interesting, don't you think? 

Its an old chestnut because iv'e heard it soooooo often, as if that makes it alright.

 Look, i am generally not a rude person, in fact i am the person that gives up their seat to the old and infirm- doesn't have their car radio blarring out to annoy everone else in the vicinity, doesn't go around shouting on the mobile phone,( a quiet conversation is much more dignified) or spitting in public, as so many people do these days, as if its the norm- well it aint!  in fact i am a very considerate person if i do say so myself! ( hang on while i adjust the halo)

The reason it got terse is because i replied to a previous poster and they turned on me because i dared to disagree with them, so i guess whats good for the goose and all that.

Smokers are dying in numbers wether you agree with it or not.  But all the non smokers who say it is a great move to stop it in pubs/public places/places of work don't seem to realise that the government (especially gordons labour) will not just stand the loss of income from the sales of cigarettes (as they are highly taxed)

Therefore in one way or another all you non smokers are paying more in everyday life to cover this, You are now covering a tobacco profit that isn't there any more, so like me you are now paying a tobacco tax without even smoking!!!

I have this morning been reading all the comments on smoking and not smoking, my only feeling is what makes non-smokers rights more important than smokers rights?

Why can there not been space for smokers and space for non-smokers? 

 

I agree is time the government realised how it is killing off the pub business and let landlords decide and police smokers in a room once known as the snug.

I used to smoke also but i love this smoking ban, my neigbours smoke outside and seeing that i live above them i can't have my windows open and close up my vents to keep the smell out, ( now i have had to buy 2 of those spray things that cost me £15 a month). Which i can't afford as i am jobless at the moment.... also i get *** ends in my rain channel i have infront of my door to stop my flat from flooding, and the butts blow into my flat when theres a strong wind , which i find disgusting...

About the pubs the smokers still seem to linger at the entrances. I had an old smoking room at 1 of the places i had worked at before, and you had to walk past it to get into the normal lunch room. every time they opened the door the smoke poored out into the hall. Restraunts for instance used to have smoking/non-smoking areas but there was just a panel about 4-6 feet tall and you still got smoked out... and its never been social having seperate rooms. but some people say about pubs deciding that will mean all pubs will allow smoking because its finacially viable to do so...

My wife is asmatic and she had a coughing fit when some idiot blew smoke into her face, i said to the muppet appologise to my wife , he soon appologised and i reminded him that some people carry knifes around , and some 1 wouldn't think twice about stabbing him, as alot of people consider some 1 blowing smoke into some 1's face an insult...

I myself have a severe cough occasionally and i bring stuff up too, which is due to 3 years smoking and breathing in other peoples smoke...

Also there was an incident at a train station not far from me in kent where your not aloud to smoke (signs up as well) this woman said to a few guys that its against the law to smoke here and asked them to put them out then 1 of them threw her on the track she died there and then as she got electricuted. And instead of going home to her young child she went to the mourg at the local hospital. this person will probley be released in about 6-8 years after killing a young women. why did this idiot do it no 1 knows. they only got him because it was all caught on cctv at the station...

Yes i can say that smokers contribute heavyley to the tax in this county alone at about. £8000,000,000. thats 8 tousand million pound yearly.

 

But it doesn't concern you the invisible gases we are subjected to every day.

 C02 from vehicles are far more poisonous.

 

Do a test

Garage with 1 person and a car running

Garage with 1 person and a person smoking

 

i am sure the garage with the car will kill you first!!!

Smoking is bad for our health, yet we still drink which is just as harmful, have you seen what drinking does to your insides, looks similar to the effects of smoking

I really wish people would not judge due to their own preferences!!!
 

i have  always been anti smoking ,when the ban came in it was great .You can now go into Pubs etc and not have to breath in other peoples smoke and your clothes stay fresh longer.i would like to see introduced a spray that Shop staff can spray themselves when they return onto the Shop Floor as you can always smell a  Smoker as the Disgusting smell of tobacco stays attached to them . Staff Standing outside the Front of Food Food Outlets  is bad .How many wash there hands.