Sure to raise some ire
After the smoking ban, the amount of people who would continue to bang on about what a great idea it was, good step towards a healthy lifestyle, can't stand smelling like an ashtray at the end of the night, etc..

EH? You're in a _pub_ for fucks sake. It's not a gym, and unless you're stopping by for a medicinal glass of claret every now and again, hardly likely to prolong your life expectancy.

FTR: I don't smoke (any more - since looooong before the ban) but I can't quite fathom how sitting in a boozer pouring pints of wife-beater down your neck is made any healthier by the absence of smoke. You're still filling up on (very tasty and enjoyable) toxins.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 18:56, 13 replies)

You don't understand how 2 toxins is worse than 1 toxin?
Although I still agree that banging on about how bad smoking is whilst drinking in a pub is a rather moot point.
(tarbin tarbis, tarbit, tarbamus, tarbimus, tarbant, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:01, closed)

Because it's quite feasible to sit in a pub and not be drinking alcohol.
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:20, closed)

You are Stuntman Mike
..and I hereby claim my five pounds.

Valid point though. Always found it annoying / boring to be around piss-heads when sober however.
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 19:39, closed)

Precisely
I don't drink alcohol. I do, however, like pub food.

I often go into a pub to have anice meal with my girlfriend. Nowadays I go more often than before the smoking ban. Back then, it was quite common for me to walk into a pub - find that the "no-smoking" area was full - and then walk straight out again, because there was therefore nowhere I was able to sit.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 0:26, closed)

even though i smoke
i don't miss having all my clothes reeking like a tramps armpit the morning after i've been down t'pub.

as for the healthy benefits etc, couldn't give a fuck. frankly.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 19 Feb 2009, 20:05, closed)

Oddly ...
I strongly dislike smoking ...

... but somehow it just seems wrong to come home after a night out not smelling of cancerous fumes.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 13:26, closed)

I'm in favour of having separate smoking and non-smoking areas.
Also, the smoke smells a damn sight better than the multitude of sins it was covering up, which we can now smell- sweat, piss etc.
( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:07, closed)

Farts
Concert halls and pubs now smell exclusively of burgerbackfire, as someone else on this forum has already remarked.
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Thu 19 Feb 2009, 22:20, closed)

^ this
Eau de colon...
(Veni Vidi Lurki had attitude constipation on, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 0:22, closed)

I've decided


that I'm getting a colonic irrigation..

so there
(The Cats Twat, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 3:10, closed)

I'd far rather smell sweat, piss, farts etc
Tobacco smoke is the most foul smell in the whole world to me.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 20 Feb 2009, 0:25, closed)

It's the
"Oh, when the ban comes in, I'll be able to go to the pub again" crowd that pissed me off.

Where.the.fuck.are.you.then?

About 15 pubs a week are closing down and none of you 'ban happy' cnuts are anywhere to be seen.

I'm having to keep the three pubs in my village in business on my own - and it's giving me one hell of a beer gut.

So, by banning smoking in pubs, they've adversly affected my health!

Oh, the irony...
(dchurch bah, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 17:27, closed)

true
absofuckinloutley dchurch i totally agree....
(norfolkngood, Mon 23 Feb 2009, 19:11, closed)