Smoking Ban - your opinion ! PLEASE JOIN THE GROUP?

WE are more than happy that you are very restricted as to where you can smoke

we like breathing cleaner air.

Should we allow a bunch of narrow minded people to dictate to us that they are allowed to smoke. At the end of the day passive smoking is real. I have never got drunk from passive drinking, which is why we needed a ban. I think it's great that I have the ability, finally, to go out and have a beer in a pub without smelling like an ashtray.

If it's really an issue, move somewhere where there is no smoking ban. It's quite simple really. Either that or sit in your own house and invite your fellow smokers there. At least I stay healthy and your house and people end up with the smell and health risks. It doesn't take much to put a bar in your house, and the off licence is cheaper than the pub anyway.

I think so people have go a hold of the wrong end of the stick as usuall. IT IS NOT A CIGERETTE ban, it is a smokeless zone area that means that you cannot smoke a pipe, cigars,cigerettes, clay pipe's and even bubble pipe. If it produces smoke then you can't smoke it even herbal cigarettes and a no no.I know it is not to popular with a lot of people but this is to try and reduce the hazards of smoking in confined areas. So looking at it that way yas it's a good thing but spoiling peoples plesure if you can call it a plesure killing one's self slowly then I can see the point. then why is it that the govermment make such a huge revinue from the sale of tobacco. They might just as well dan it altogether if there so concerned. and not allow it to be sold in shops etc. It's like everything else half a job. just like the euro, we are ether haveing it or we are not so why don't they make up there minds. as most of urop have now changed to the euro here we are at the back of the que once again.

It seem that you guy/gals in the UK are now getting hit with a smoking ban. We here have been living with it for a while, I do smoke and I miss going to a restaurant, having a meal and a few drinks and having a nice conversation. Now you are not allowed to smoke. So you don't stick around anymore. Also, at bars it has to be a private club to allow smoking. It sucks,

but I understand the reasoning. The whole second hand smoke situation. I just wish they would not treat us as second hand citizens. I realize it is more of a problem as there are more Europeans that smoke and enjoy their Pubs . I doubt this will go away. They keep trying to tax more, our buying cigarettes, and they won't be happy till they have banned smoking all together. Now you can't even smoke in your own car if their is a child present. Next they will be telling us that you can't even smoke in your own house.

I enjoy smoking but hate it when in the past I have been eating a nice meal and somebody on a nearby table lights up and the smoke drifts toward my table I do not mind the smoking ban personally as most of my drinking places have made provisions for smokers & smoking outside in summer is not a problem for me as for the goverment dictating what we do that is the whole point of a government to a certain point! My wife worked in a bar a few years ago and the bar had a strict employee dress code so she had to buy a new outfit for every day of the week as after a night behind the bar her clothes would stink of smoke and she had to get them dry cleaned out of her own meagre wages so in fairness to the bar staff it is a good thing and I can go for a few hours without a ciggy and pub life is not the same as it was a few years ago when I would stay in one pub for a couple of hours my friends & I tend to visit several pubs on a night out so we have plenty of time for a smoke between pubs/ bars

I used to smoke for many years but gave it up 4 years ago. When the smoking ban started in Ireland, we thought it was going to affect dramatically bars, hotels sales and so on. And it did, initially. After that, people got used to it and I have to say it is great going to a pub for a drink and not having to breathe in the smoke of others. If I go on holidays to Spain, for instance, It makes clearer it was the best thing ever to happen!

I smoke and it is so nice to go into a smoke free pub. My children can now come with us. I don't mind going outside to smoke and if the weather is bad there are 2 pubs in town which have really good shelters for smokers. HOWEVER.. someone said that the next step is to ban smoking in the street!!!! No way that would be going to far!

Yes someone has to start somewhere and who other than the gov't be authorized to implement the ban. After all not only does it feel uncomfortable and offensive to be inhaling second hand smoke it has been proven that it is detrimental to one's health.

In the community where I live in Canada one of the major employers not only banned smoking in the work area. They have it banned from even smoking in your own car so long as the vehicle is on their property.

I am a smoker.

But I live in Cali and there has been a smoking ban in bars and restaurants for 10 years (at least) here.

It's no big deal to me at all. You get used to it.

I don't smoke in my house anyway so I guess smoking indoors is pretty much a novel idea at this point.

Nor do I feel that non-smokers should have to share my bad habit.

Im a on and off smoker myself and I still can't stand 2nd hand smoke so I think it is a good idea to ban smoking in certain areas.

I am delighted with the ban. At long last I can enjoy a night out without being assailed by other peoples' second hand smoke. It is wonderful going home after a night out with my clothes smelling the same as when I went out.