Smoking Poll

[Bagpuss]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-200903051623/

Got to admit, they are spot on.

Did I write that?

[sasguru]

Passive smoking causes cancer. The debate ends there for me.

Show me the evidence

[fckvwls]

Show me the evidence

You're the scientist with an unmatched understanding of statistics. Do your own research.

[EternalOptimist]

Passive smoking causes cancer. The debate ends there for me.

on the plus side, smoking cures some things , like ham and fish

[DimPrawn]

Show me the evidence

Oh here he goes.

[Drewster]

Actually, not right now, but off outside for a crafty one. Back in a mo.

Are you going to have a post potnoodle fag?

PS - I don't, never have and never will..... Smoke that is!

[Mich the Tester]

Diverting the topic, as I said would happen, the smoking ban is closing the traditional pubs at an alarming rate, leaving only the souless theme bars to thrive. All these 'smoke free' extra drinkers didn't materialise. As usual in this country those most vociferous about smoking in pubs never actually wanted to go.

Same in NL. Old pubs which were the heart and soul of towns and villages are closing down because the few anti-smoking campaigners that do actually visit them just sit around for hours with a pot of herbal tea instead of buying rounds of drinks and keeping the tills working. Now I gave up smoking a long time ago, but I'm disgusted that a landlord can't decide for himself what goes on in his own pub, which is often actually a part of his own home. That's one of the secrets of a really good pub; it's someone's home that he has kitted out for the enjoyment of the public.

My local landlord lives above his pub, which is an old railway station. In buying the building he saved a beautiful old station which would otherwise have been demolished and replaced with a nasty impersonal perspex shed, and gave it new life. He's now in real danger from the double whammy of anti-smoking regulations and an increasingly puritan attitude of government towards young people and students who like a drink or two/well alright, ten.

Hilaire Belloc said ''When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves,
for you will have lost the last of England". I think the same applies to Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as Holland and Belgium. The pub is a part of Northern European culture; at it's best it's a place where everyone is welcome and can gather for a drink and a pub game or quiz, from the local millionaire to the brickie and the local priest or vicar; all are treated as equals. Lose it and you lose the one establishment that can really bring people together to enjoy each others' company.

[Troll]

All these 'smoke free' extra drinkers didn't materialise. As usual in this country those most vociferous about smoking in pubs never actually wanted to go.

Daily Mash did a good take on that...interesting that the NHS is spending millions to persuade us to stop, while HMG is raking in the revenue from the sale of the stuff.

If the Government was serious it has within its power the means to prohibit the manufacture, distribution and retailing of toxic products, not to do so in the case of tobacco smacks of hypocrisy.

Still all you non-smokers will enjoy years of added life in your dotage, pissing your pants, stuck in front of the telly in some miserable old peoples home wondering if your family will ever visit & all the best years behind you.. just waiting for death.

[BlightyBoy]

Are you going to have a post potnoodle fag?

PS - I don't, never have and never will..... Smoke that is!

Eh?

[EternalOptimist]

Oh here he goes.

which one of the three is it today though ?

Provisional SasGuru
Continuity SasGuru
Real SasGuru