Militant Non-Smokers
You force smokers outside pubs.

Then, at the first sign of sunshine, you take up all the tables in beer garden!

I felt like going up and saying "Excuse me, this is the smoking area"
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:24, 10 replies)

It's not the smoking area
It's the beer garden.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:27, closed)

Smokers need to understand...
... precisely how foul and disgusting the smell of smoke is, to a non-smoker. It is extremely rude to smoke in the presence of a non-smoker without asking.

If all smokers had been polite, always asking anyone in the vicinity: "Excuse me - would anyone object if I smoked?" - and then paying attention to the responses - then there would have been no need for a legal ban on it.

Sadly, the majority of smokers are either unable or simply unwilling to understand exactly HOW vile it is for a non-smoker to have to breathe in those fumes.

I'm not trying to insult smokers here. I'm just having a go at those who have no consideration for other people around them. And no.. don't come up with answers like "but give me a break - I'm in a pub. If you don't want to breathe smoke then don't come in here" (before the ban). Wrong. Non-smokers enjoy going into pubs too. A lot more now, in fact, since the ban.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:34, closed)

^^^There's been a ban for almost 12 months
and non-smokers are still whining. Just goes to show, some people are never satisfied.
(MrC. Having the most boring username on b3ta since 2004, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:38, closed)

Sorry Eurosong...
"If all smokers had been polite, always asking anyone in the vicinity: "Excuse me - would anyone object if I smoked?" - and then paying attention to the responses - then there would have been no need for a legal ban on it."

That is nonsense. The government want to do everything BUT the one the one thing they should do which is an outright tobbaco ban.
It's nothing to do with how polite smokers are. We are just hated full stop.

I appreciate that many people find smoking disgusting, and I am actually a considerate smoker, despite my fecitious comment above.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:41, closed)

I quit smoking
Mostly because it was too expensive a habit to keep up, not because I wanted to. I enjoyed smoking, it made me feel great and I learned some useful skills (skinning up immediately springs to mind). I used to be able to continue to get my fix at the pub by sitting with my friends who still did smoke.

Then the ban put everyone of us (still had to get my fix somehow) outside in the cold and rain and sleet and snow, but we held strong. And when the sun came, out came the non-smokers, who jumped on us for smoking outside at the table next to them.

FUCK YOU

You wanna be smoke free, go back inside, the outside world belongs to us.
(UncleChuckles "Cthulhu fhtagn", Wed 7 May 2008, 15:48, closed)

"Excuse me, this is the smoking area"
say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it!
(Mr.Dog was in love again on, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:55, closed)

HAve a click.
As the Americans say "Damn right!" Bet they'd complain if you went inside for a smoke though even though they're taking up the smoking area.
(Teran Thinks Pogonophobia is funny, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:58, closed)

mr c
i beleive the origional whinge was posted by a smoker.
(magictorch, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:59, closed)

as a non-militant non-smoker...
I hate the smoking ban. I pity my poor nicotine addicted mates having to go outside last year in one of the shittiest summers of the decade, and now smokers being made to feel uncomfortable cos suddenly everyone's outside...

Pubs should smell of smoke. Fact.
(freakybumblebee, Wed 7 May 2008, 17:02, closed)

I love the smoking ban
Used to get asthma otherwise. So fuck off, I don't want asthma.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Wed 7 May 2008, 21:12, closed)