As an addition to the previous...
What's everyone's opinion on the smoking ban? Ok, so it's old news now but it still bugs me that the smell of sweat in clubs and gigs has now reached overpowering levels. At least that uniformly blanketing smell of fags covered it up. I get particularly annoyed because the pool table in my local is right next to the bogs and nothing puts you off a pint of bitter like the smell of stale piss.
(Dok Zombie Cash, gash, pie and mash., Tue 25 Mar 2008, 0:55, 8 replies)

stale piss
....and sick, and farts, and sweat, and...

nice. also you can see people in clubs a lot better without all the smoke. not so good.
(Samara Morgan is a small blue thing, like a marble or an eye, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 1:22, closed)

I'd suggest a change in venue.

(Big Spoon Baby Balloon hides in corners, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 2:04, closed)

Everytime that I want a fag in a pub
I get a little bit sad inside these days. I have rose tinted views of people leaping around, smiling and handing out fags to the chillun. Like a scene from fantasia or something.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 10:08, closed)

in my local
There are only 4 'regulars' that don't smoke, all the barstaff do, the owners do, virtually all of the customers do.

In the first few months of the ban there was an average of about 3 people in the pub at any one time, everyone else was outside.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 12:36, closed)

The ban
I think the ban is a good thing, yes there are some downsides in terms of smell but at least I'm not gonna worry about the ills of passive smoking!
These people who are whining about having to go outside? Good! You should have to go outside, you social lepers. I don't run around expelling harmful fumes near you so why should I have to put up with yours?
It's also a bonus that most pubs and clubs look cleaner and brighter without the patina of spent smoke on the walls.
So yes, The ban is a good thing, given the choice i'd prefer cigs to be banned full stop, they serve no actual purpose other than to kill, there is no medicinal applications of smoking, unlike alcohol in which small amounts do have health benefits.
Rant over
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 13:59, closed)

fuckarma
They do actually have lots of social uses, they kill 100,000 a year, so smokers die a long slow and painful death, rather than have various joints broken and replaced, go mad and then die a long slow painful death.

smokers die younger, so all smokers should be congratulated on trying to reduce the pensions crisis by killing themselves

the NHS spends more on terminally ill old people than terminally ill smokers

TAX tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax

hundreds of billions of pounds of reasons why the government hasn't just banned them years ago
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 14:37, closed)

fuckarma
you, sir, are a nazi cunt
(firestormviper!!1 approaching god through cigarettes, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 22:56, closed)

^^
Smoker by any chance Pancreas?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Wed 26 Mar 2008, 9:15, closed)