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It's been here for so many years now, and frankly it isn't as stupid, as one I saw near my town, where they could not even smoke in their own balcony. Now that is stupidity. Now stop ytour crying and roll with it.
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Just wanted to report my first visit to a smoke-free railway station. Got to the station yesterday morning, and all my children had to breath in was the smell of overpriced coffee and croissant.
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We have a sign on the door of our office now stating that it is illegal to smoke inside - not that anyone ever has in the five or so years that I've been working here. It's just occurred to me that all the tobacco companies will have to have those signs on the doors to their offices too. What a splendid piece of irony.
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Irony indeed sir, oh the irony. What colour is their mind in such a smokeless air? |
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I think you meant 'palpable'. Smoking is shit. |
Do vivisectionists still make beagles smoke cigarettes? Will they have to do that outdoors?
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I admire people who don't smoke, but I have to say that some of them can be real fascists. Last Saturday I had to take shelter outside the toy shop Hamleys because it was pissing down with rain. Even though I was standing outside and the smoking ban wasn't coming into effect until the next day, one of their staff asked me if I could stop smoking because the smoke was, apparently, 'blowing towards the shop'. Fair enough, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of these days some pro-smoking activist is going to use one of these people as a human ashtray.
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People who quit smoking and don't become anti-smoking zealots are admirable. The ones who start lecturing everyone else about what a terrible habit smoking is are nowt but a pain in the arse.
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A friend alerted me to this bizarre clause in the smoking regulations. 2007 No. 765 PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND The Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007 Made 7th March 2007 Coming into force 1st July 2007 The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3, 5 and 79(3) of the Health Act 2006[1] makes the following Regulations, a draft of which was laid before Parliament in accordance with section 79(4) of that Act and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:— PART 2 Exemptions Performers 6. Where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it appropriate for a person who is taking part in that performance to smoke, the part of the premises in which that person performs is not smoke-free in relation to that person during his performance. Although I am a non-smoker, I think this law is draconian, just an excericse in further undermining people's civil rights, and would love to see musicians standing up to its stupidity by smoking on stage. So you can still do that on stage? |
I smoked for ten years, quit for four, started again during my divorce and have quite again for the past 6 months.
I fuking LOVE smoking. but I love making wild monkey love without getting winded even more. |
has anyone whinged about the smoking ban yet... bloody smoking ban.
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I remember seeing Acid Mothers Gong at the RFH a few years ago and Cotton Casino was smoking in what is a very non-smoking venue, probably to do with said 'artistic integrity'. I suspect that it'll only be a week or so before someone in some band sparks up onstage and there's a furore or some such. |
i cant imagine going to a gig and not smoking during the performance.
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Are you saying that you're so hot on stage [etc]
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actually when i think about it i dont actually smoke during performaces i like.
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Boredoms in October will rule.
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Smoking is cool. End of (apart from when your old then it just looks ugly)
I only smoke when im drunk. So this ban really pisses me off. I agree with smoking being banned in most places but Pubs and Clubs should be an exception. It breaks with the whole British dream. You go to the pub to drink, smoke, let your hair down. Not to be a health freak. If you wanna be healthy you are really in the wrong establishment. In a pub you should be able to drink, smoke and indeed as the gentleman above mentioned fart and scratch your ball hair to your heart's content. |
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That is the single saddest statement so far written on this board. |
what is "whinged"?
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It's Funny Talk for "whined." |
http://www.silsden.net/yorkshiredialect/dictionary.htm
this is how people speak where i am from. infact some of my relatives i have no clear way of knowing what they are talking about. |
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Would that be for play actors playing smokers and the likes or also for bands who are too cool not to smoke on stage? In holland the new minister for health has also sped up the smoking ban. Originally bars and the likes were given until 2011 to introduce the smoking ban but now it seems that it's already going to happen in july 2008. So after then it's no more smoking in bars, restaurants, festival tents(?), football stadiums with closed roofs(?) and even coffeeshops... although the latter will probably come up with some isolated rooms where you can smoke your marijuana but won't get served. |
ha. i'm all for the smoking ban, really.
i despise cigarettes. they smell to the high heavens and make my eyes itch and clothes stink. i don't like the idea of risking lung disease from just going out for dinner. smoke all you want at home but pleeeeeease don't make nonsmokers put up with it. p.s.- don't care what y'all british folk do but pass this shit in the u.s. |
Going to a gig is gonna be unbearable. Waiting between bands. Fuck knows how I'll cope at all.
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If only it were that easy. Seriously, this ban is gonna mean a lot of people are gonna miss a lot of support bands - and encores. Which maybe isn't such a bad thing anyway. But Shellac can definitely go fuck themselves with their 90 minute no-break sets. |
I missed a lot of support bands and encores because I couldn't stand the cloying, eye-watering, non-ventilated rooms I was standing in for upwards of four hours in the past.
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I have to say, when it comes to gigs I'm in favour of a smoking ban - even though it's a pain in the bum for me. Gig goers will never have the choice that drinkers have. The idea of a smoking venue and a non-smoking venue would only work if bands played both - which would never happen.
Pubs are a different issue. I still don't see why, so long as a pub advertises itself as a smoking establishment, they can't continue. I'll just have to get over it though, I suppose. I'm standing in the way of progress. |
It's mainly for employees. You should be able to work anywhere (including pubs) without having to breath in other people's smoke.
And smoking is just a bad habit. Just stop doing it and you'll be fine. |
yeah, smoking isn't even that good, the down sides massively outweigh the one upside, i've been smoking on and off for 11 years, i'm glad the ban is here. people who complain about it are just spoiled brats.
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your cursing is definitly English. |
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That was my point really And the people saying my comment is the single most idiotic thing on the board are clearly taking my posts too seriously. I neither believe smoking is cool or part of the 'british dream'. You cant seriously think I would say something like that straight-faced. Lighten up. |
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Cotton Casino is credited as smoking cigarettes on their hour-long version of 'Pink Lady Lemonade'. |
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threads ending in Diesel always make me laugh. I have to ask, are you intentionally funny or is this the result of some sort of condition? is my laughter inappropriate?? |
simple solution to those pissed off by the ban: stop smoking, then the ban won't apply to you. Plus, you'll have lots of extra money to spend.
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I have to breathe traffic fumes, so traffic should be banned. I'm against the loss of liberty - we've been dealing with this in NYC for several years now. If they can get away with banning smokes in bars, they can get away with requiring a total surveillance city - which is what they are doing. I honestly don't miss not smelling like smoke after coming home from a gig. But now the pols are trying to ban smoking in autos, in parks, on streets, and even in your home. Its just about making a nice healthy crop of meat for the machines. |
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There's a few bars that smell like utter shite now. Not all of them. I can't understand how these non-smoking cunts can abide it, it's fucking awful. I shouldn't, by rights, have any olfactory senses any more, let alone having them affronted by the new stench of food and sweat. |
its true that place snoe do smell of sweat and human bodies more. away with you smoking ban away with you.
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