Smoking Ban in Pubs?? You're Having a Laugh !!?!


Question: Im a non smoker, who didnt care who smoked themselves to death....even in the same room as myself, I have always tolerated it (to my own detriment) but live and let live.
Now the smoking ban in public places has made a huge difference in pubs and clubs all over the land...lovely air!!!
Not so, where I live, as soon as closing time is shouted the doors are closed and out comes the ash trays......and the fags...so its ok for me to be tolerent for 30 years...but the smokers cant be tolerent back for just a few hours....well thankyou . Does anyone else have to still put up with it at their local...or is it only in my little old town?


Answers: Im a non smoker, who didnt care who smoked themselves to death....even in the same room as myself, I have always tolerated it (to my own detriment) but live and let live.
Now the smoking ban in public places has made a huge difference in pubs and clubs all over the land...lovely air!!!
Not so, where I live, as soon as closing time is shouted the doors are closed and out comes the ash trays......and the fags...so its ok for me to be tolerent for 30 years...but the smokers cant be tolerent back for just a few hours....well thankyou . Does anyone else have to still put up with it at their local...or is it only in my little old town?

I must admit, I thought it would still be ilegal for pubs to close their doors and allow everyone to light up like that. I suggest you contact your local authority's environmental health department ( contact will be entirely anonymous ) and beg the very question. I cannot believe this is legal and at best, it's extracting the proverbial.

Stop whining, its illegal for you to be in there after hours any way, so if you don't like it, leave!

That's illegal, call your local council if you want something done.

what happened 2 my rights!!!! im a smoker i go outside 2 have a *** now while im out 4 the eve, and still get moaned at by non smokers! now ur moanin bout people smokin in pubs AFTER HOURS? u shouldnt be there!!! after hours drinkin is 4 staff after they kicked the p**s heads out dont like dont stay after hours!

where you live? i miss a smoke with my pint

The problem that the 'establishments' are having with this law is not so much with the ban but the LOSS of trade as a result of it, after all it's an 'health issue' so they must deter this practice as soon as possible!.....Ya could bring it up with the 'health n' safety' officer?.......

I wish they would bring back smoking all I can smell in pubs now is farts,B O & smelly feet

its illegal to do that you should complain!

Nah nothing like that happens here

but i totally agree with your argument! It is time they gave something back!

Of course you've answered your own question.
It's "after time", and you shouldn't be there except as a nonpaying guest of the licensee.
If people pay for their ale, and I suspect you do, it isn't just the smokers who break the law.
A reasonable person, naturally, would not expect his or her drinks for free.
If you choose to stay, just reflect that you have enjoyed the imposition of your (and the government's) will on the smokers who have indulged you for several hours.
You could, of course, go home at that time. I suspect you won't be missed.

addendum: You said "as soon as closing time is shouted" - therefore it IS "after time", and I still suspect you wouldn't be missed if you took yourself out of the place.

You do not have to put up with anything and you never have done. Even before this fundamentally unjust ban you had choices. You could stay in the pub, leave the pub, go to a non smoking part of the pub (when available) go to a pub that does not allow smoking (they did exist before the ban) or refuse to patronise pubs that allow smoking until some of them see the light and cater for you. That is the way a free market is supposed to work, supply meets demand. The above shows you have always had choices.

I have been a heavy smoker for thirty five years and now because of anti smoking intolerance my social life is ruined forever. I have no choices at all.

Furthermore, the business I started prior to the ban is being severely hampered because of the ban, I work in entertainment in pubs.

Non smokers seem to think they should have a right to smoke free pubs, they should not. The very idea is ridiculous, unjust, stupid and totally contrary to the laws of the market place. If you ran a business would you be happy if I dictated what you sold or what your opening hours are? Of course not because you should decide how to run your business the same as pub owners should.

If the average anti smoker had a little more intelligence and tolerance they would have simply stopped going to smoking pubs and very quickly the market would have responded by catering for smokers and non smokers alike. We would have had smoking and non smoking pubs then everyone would be catered for. As it is we have removed a small inconvenience from non smokers and replaced it with a greater inconvenience to smokers and an even greater inconvenience to pub owners and pub entertainers. There are people who are going bankrupt because of this ban.

To practise intolerance is far more damaging to society than smoking. Do you not realise that our grandparents fought to preserve our freedom and now the the anti smoking brigade has helped Government to erode yet one more of our freedoms.

To give one example of how stupid and intolerant anti smokers are, your local allows you to have a smoke free pub all night and yet you moan because the smokers get their turn at closing time. What do you want, blood?

All anti smokers should hang their heads in shame for their utter stupidity, selfishness and intolerance.

i am a smoker. i wish i could quit but have had no success. i live in illinois and we passed that law. for starters i dont smoke in my own home. i step outside even if its below zero. its out of respect for my boyfriend and i dont want my house yellow and to smell. i work in a machine shop full of old men and smokers. we use to be able to smoke while we worked. we work 10 hour shifts and only get a 20 minute lunch. no breaks. so the guys hide inside the shop and still smoke. if i want a cigarette i sneak out the back door. the guys are always bothering me as to why i stepo outside. all the excuses like no one cares and the boss isnt here. but i look at it this way. its my discusting habit and its still a law i should go by. in january i was smoking a pack sometimes more then that a day. i have cut back to smoking less then a pack a day which is great. so i think something good came out of it. as far as places to eat and bars.. i think it shouldnt be a law. it should be the buisness owners choice. i dont much care for smoking when im eating. but a bar should let people light up i think. theres people out there who smoke only when they drink. it should be up to the owner. making it a law takes away our personal freedoms and it isnt right. next they will be telling us what vitamins to take and what cars to drive and such. thats why we live in america. we want our freedoms even if its smoking and harming our bodies, thats our right. bars here are suffering cause of this law and were a decent city of about hundred fifty thousand plus.

If you dont like it just leave the pub, its not your pub or house to say whether the owners should smoke in it.

Here it is illegal to smoke in any public building at any hour!!

A couple of bars thought they could have "smoking only" but learned that they can't!

I see that as an infringement on the rights of business owners!!

Also I nor anyone else I know go to the bars, restaurants or anywhere else we don't have to go any more. I will not spend a dime in businesses that I am not required to be in.

I now order a lot of stuff by email, more by catalogue, and never eat out any more!! If the state can declare that I cannot smoke within 300 feet of the door of a business, they don't need the taxes I would have spent either.

oh give over you moaning whine if it wasnt such a problem for you before why are you moaning about it now sure your doing something just as illegal by just sitting there in the pub at after hours umm.....





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