posted April 14, 2003 09:56 AM              

i am not from london. here's a bit of information: smoking is banned from california restaurant and bars.

posted April 14, 2003 11:51 AM              

I can understand a restaurant where people are easting (even though if they actually had proper ventilation it wouldnt matter) but a club or pub? nope, thats just rediculous.

posted April 14, 2003 01:57 PM              

As far as i see it these people argue i'm being antisocial by burning a bit of a plant around them, but they're quite free to drive four-by-fours around polluting my atmosphere with total impunity.

Smoking is a social thing, its nice to go into a bar and have a fag and a pint - and as i stated before if the premises were ventilated properly there wouldnt be a problem. But nope, these fanatical health freaks have to have everything all their own way. I wonder when they'll try to ban smoking outside too.

I'm a smoker (yes, everyone falls over in shock) and you'd think from the way these people talk we all walk around scoping for someone to sit next to and then proceed to blow smoke at them for 5 minutes. It doesnt work that way, we're quite happy to go to a smoking section or just do whatever, but we arent prepared to pander to a bunch of hypocondriacs who seemingly want to sterilise their own perceptual realities of bacteria, smokers and fun in general.

It just boils down to a case of intolerance, and personal freedom. I want the personal freedom to smoke, I understand i cant smoke in places, like peoples houses, and i hardly ever spark up over a meal. But it would just be...crap, for want of a better word to go out and not be able to smoke.

I know about the cancer, but considering i'm also going to get it from strontium-90 in my bones from 20th century nuclear test firings, sitting next to a lighbulb, ultraviolet rays from our screwed ozone layer, eating bbq's or getting hit on the head by a meteor or falling off a pavement i really dont care, i just want to sit down and chuff on a bit of rolled up paper with leaves of a plant stuck in it without some self-righteous individual with a chip on both shoulders trying to tell me how to live.

posted April 14, 2003 02:02 PM            

Well, it's only been in effect in NY for 2 weeks and already the smoking ban is directly linked to to the IMMEDIATE death of a NY man.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/73386.htm

posted April 14, 2003 05:13 PM              

It is a medical FACT, and they listed all the research studies that prove it. They also listed all the medical studies the anti-smoking groups misquoted to give their argument legitimacy.

posted April 14, 2003 07:20 PM              

Yeah, apparently Bloomberg was trying to argue that smoking was a fire hazard. Not like crowding hundreds of people into a tiny bar isn't a fire hazard, like that recent story about the bar that burnt down when a fuse blew from Great White's stage stuff.

posted April 14, 2003 11:45 PM            

Yeah, cigarettes are a fire hazard. Next thing Bloomberg bans is matches.

jwhop