smoking ban!!! whats your opinion??

Yes I agree with Munky Nutz that fair enough that we have to go outside but now some non smokers gets on their high horse about us smoking outside. I think that is a bit much.

I think the smoking ban is OK even though it is not the best for us smokers. But what I find really silly is that for example at my work we used to smoke in the courtyard. No one ever came down there as there is nothing there but airconditioning units. Now We are not allowed to smoke there anymore. Now we have to go out on the street. This is a big building. We are about 800 people. I am sure you can imagine how many smokers there are outside our building bothereing the non smokers that walks past with our smoke. Now that is just silly.

Smoking used to be allowed in the office where I worked. Smoke was always wafting by me (for over 20 years). I thought it was rude and annoying. I was just trying to do my job and I'd have smoke in my face all day.

I also noticed that smokers were non-productive. They stop working, take out their cigarette and lighter, they sit and puff on their cigarettes and keep tapping the ashes in the ashtray. Can you really type and do that at the same time? No. So they spent more time puffing and tapping than doing their work. Also, I had to get up and leave the building to get away from the smoke several times during the day, so they kept me from working as well.

I was glad when smoking was banned. And we're not allowed to eat at our desks either, so don't bring that up.

You can't drink alcohol on the job so why do people think they have a right to smoke on the job??

If it bothered you that much why did you stay in that job. Surely no money is worth the health of your ubnborn child. This is not a berration. I sympathise in a way but still believe there should be some pubs where you are allowed to smoke. You have a free will the same as everybody else. Thoiink of all these war veterans who got to the pub every day for a pint and COMPANY>>>bery important in your old age. they are atr the end of their life and they have fought for this country but now the government is saying you will have to stand out in the cold or give up smoking...(which you fought so bravely for...freedom). there should be nonsmoking pubs and smoking pubs and then people could make up their own minds. maybe they could issue licences on the premise that they stated wheter they were going to be smoking or non smoking. Eamounts of each sort. However this is just another example of nanny state. Live and let live whatever happened to that.

It's too extreme.

People will stay home and drink their beer from Sainsbury's (or wherever).

So they can smoke.

You'll find people socialising a lot more at home - where they can smoke.

If (let's say) 30% of the population smoke - or are prepared to tolerate smoking - , then why can't 30% of pubs etc allow smoking, under council-controlled licensing law similar to liquor laws.

Pubs and Bars will go out of business. People who "pop in" for a toasted cheese sandwich and an OJ will not compensate for the loss of profit for the proprietor.

We've already seen one formerly famous boxer MURDERED by attemting to stop some guys with a skinfull of booze from smoking - how many more do you want?

Bar-staff will be competing for work in a much smaller market.

The logical conclusion of the nanny-state is to ban the existence of people.

As a nurse I see smoking more or less as a prolonged act of suicide and therefore I welcome the smoking restrictions (not ban!) as they protect the health and lives of the innoncent people who dont ask for any problems.

I know many people will disagree with this, but that is the nature of addiction. They think the evidence is made up to spoil their fun or it will always affect someone else but never them and of course everyone knows someone who smoked 40 a day and lived to a ripe old age!

May i also add that as members of the public we have the right to go and work wherever we choose and why on earth should we have to go elsewhere because a group of people are choosing to smoke?!

But smoking kills you and kills the people around you. It's not worth taking the risk xx

I'm a smoker myself and think that the smoking ban is a breach of our human rights to choose where and when we do things. OK place a ban on smoking where food is made and served and in work places during work time. But when it comes to places like pubs and clubs where people go to socialise we should have the right to choose and be told what to do just like we are children.

speaking as a smoker i can understand to an extent why a smoking ban has been introduced but not to the extent it has be implemented. with the case of resterants, cafes etc totally agree with banning smoking. with the case of pubs what kind of envoroment to people expect to walk in too more so in the evenings. with asking people not to smoke at the bar and have split areas smoking and non smoking is enough. if you dont like it or worried so much about the health problems of it why go into or work in such places. think its one of those things that has good and bad things about it and the people who made put this through as law as it now stands are never going to keep everyone happy all the time.

It was quite pitiful how the smoking ban started here. Just some suburbs were banning smokers. Eventually the whole state went smoke free.

My mom smoked for 51 years and then died of lung cancer. I do not smoke myself. But I think if someone owns a bar and they want to smoke in it, then they should be allowed.

Cigarettes and booze go hand in hand. But it is nice not having smoke damaged clothes at the end of the nite.

I am completely against the ban. OK now when I go out I don't smell of other peoples fags, but I do have to smell their horrible body odours, it's enough to put me off my pint sometimes!! (Well, Almost).

My concern is that it's the thin end of the wedge. Beer and wine will be next, then we won't have to worry about the smell of smoke as there will be nowhere left to go.

I have still not seen one actual piece of hard evidence to suggest that "secondary smoking" exists. From all that I've read, it's more dangerous to your health to walk down a busy city street

I think smoking bans just show how chicken legislators are. If they think smoking is so bad, then ban the product. Make it illegal to sell.

Oh, sorry, forgot about all those taxes you are collecting from the users. Maybe you should legalize marijuana too so you can tax it.

If the product is so bad, ban it. Otherwise, except for public and government owned places, let businessmen make business decisions regarding whether or not they want to allow smoking.