Smoking ban?

[Mailman]

Close?

Clearly, you don't worry about being an illiterate bastard.

Argueing over spelling reminds me of children fighting over who's momma dresses them more funnyier

Mailman

[The Master]

It's all irrelevant to me anyway as I have a respiratory by-pass system.

[Denny]

I am a non-smoker (and have never smoked in my life)

My father died from smoking related lung cancer.

IMHO, with all the available evidence people must be pretty stupid to smoke.

However, this is all about personal freedom, responsibility and choice.

My favourite chinese restaurant refuses to offer a non-smoking area. I have the choice to go and eat elsewhere, nobody makes me eat there but every so often the attraction of their food outways the risk of passive smoke.

My local pub (which is relatively smoke free) employs a couple of weekend bar staff who are non-smokers. Nobody makes them work there and there are plenty of other places where they could get bar work in a non-smoking environment.

Once again this is a case of the New Liebour nanny state going into overdrive.

Naturally, smoking is the House of Commons bar is going to be allowed.

Can't you get take-away at your local Chinky?

On private clubs: again evidence of the sheer hypocrisy of this farcical public place ban. Don't staff work in private clubs or do members serve themselves between puffs on their big fat cigars?

[eternalnomad]

Can't you get take-away at your local Chinky?

On private clubs: again evidence of the sheer hypocrisy of this farcical public place ban. Don't staff work in private clubs or do members serve themselves between puffs on their big fat cigars?

There are times when one requires the enjoyable social experience of "dining out" as opposed to filling ones gob in front of the tv

[bogeyman]

Argueing over spelling reminds me of children fighting over who's momma dresses them more funnyier

Mailman

No contest mate! Your mum dresses funnier, definitely...

[eternalnomad]

Please tell me you're kidding.

I am afraid not - one rule for the commons and another for the commoners

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...&icc=News&ct=5

"The only bars exempt willl be those serving MPs in the Palace of Westminster, which classes as a royal palace."

[lORD lUCAN]

Argueing over spelling reminds me of children fighting over who's momma dresses them more funnyier

Mailman

Talking of children and going back to the point!,
Im glad my son will grow up in a society where smoking
will be frowned upon. I'm trying not to be too hypocritical
as I've only given up myself 2 months ago. However, being
a non smoker its bloody hard trying to live in this smokers culture.

Norway banned smoking in public places last year, and personally
everytime I visit, I enjoyed the fact that I had to stand outside with
the other lepers. It gave me time to think more clearly about kicking the habit. Especially when its -10 and the wind is howling past your ears
You tend to think a little quicker and a little more clearly!

[lORD lUCAN]

I am afraid not - one rule for the commons and another for the commoners

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...&icc=News&ct=5

"The only bars exempt willl be those serving MPs in the Palace of Westminster, which classes as a royal palace."

They die quicker , and your point is ??

[The Master]

>> Smoking will also be banned in cinemas <<

Wow, that takes me back. Are there any cinemas where you can smoke these days? What other of you old timers can remember when every cinema seat had an ashtray on the back of it? Oh yes, and that time when a compromise was reached and you could smoke on the left hand side of the auditorium but not the right.

[eternalnomad]

They die quicker , and your point is ??

My point is very simple. The MP's have voted overwhelmingly for a law that does not apply to themselves.

Are the lives of the staff in the HOC bar of less value than the staff who work at your local "Nags Head" ?

Ultimately this whole saga isnt about smoking, its about the attrition of personal freedoms, choices and responsibilities being replaced by a centralised "Nanny knows best" government.