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[sweet_blindness]

Dear the smoking ban

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[sweet_blindness]

LIES!

[biggster]

Does this mean you aren't quitting then?

Hooray! Don't let those bastards win!

It was oh-so-sweet being able to smoke in pubs etc. while I was in Reading last week. We'll just have to start holidaying in Spain regularly, Feef.

My gran LOVES to complain about smoking right now - she's even claimed that she can smell her next-door neighboor's smoke SEEPING THROUGH THE WALLS! And this is a woman who lost her sense of smell YEARS ago! My mum challenged her on it the other day, asking whether or not my Gramps used to smoke in the house back in the day, and she said that yes he did, but it wasn't an issue then because 'there wasn't such a big thing about it'!!! BLOODY SCARE-MONGERING MEDIA!!!

I'm going for a fag.

[sweet_blindness]

At least one person agrees with me. I knew I could rely on you, Smoky Joe. I planned to quit, but then I realised I didn't want to. Plus I woke up on Sunday and lit up and then went 'aw shit, failed already' and scrapped the whole idea.

Parts of Canada still allow smoking. We should make the canadian take us there. It's probably the mountainous parts with no pubs though.

(Between you and me, I'd take that first cigarette with the first cold pint over fresh smelling clothes anyway)

[beattiedee]

I went to the pub last night for my regular monday night quiz, and I tell you what it was MARVO. I came home and the clothes I usually have to wash after only 4 hours work could be folded neatly ready for a new wear. My washing machine My beautiful hair didn't smell like an ashtray. My friends who do smoke had half as many fags as usual, which is great, because I lost my mum to lung cancer and I'd really prefer it if my friends didn't die like that too and if they cut down, or even stop then there is a better chance they won't.

I really wish the government would enforce me to stop eating so much, or stop drinking so much, or make me exercise because my own willpower is clearly lacking in that I know this stuff is bad for me and might kill me, but I carry on the same regardless.

[beattiedee]

ooh some of my reply got lost! I was waffling on about washing machine carbon footprints etc.

[sweet_blindness]

It's only a matter of time before the government does regulate what we can and can't eat/drink. Them and Gillian McKeith, poking us with sticks of rough justice and shouting 'Run, Piggy!'

My main problem is the way it has been decided - without a democratic, public vote, as I believe it should have been. Or they could enforce it in some pubs and not others - that way, as with drinking too much, if I want to do something that shaves years off my life, I can decide, as an adult, to do so, but not around people who don't want to be around it.

[beattiedee]

Ah, but you're wrong, there has been a democratic public vote, it is called a general election, and when they announced the possibility of a smoking ban coming up in parliament you should have used your rights to approach your voted in representative and ask him to voice your side of the argument.

Maybe you did do that, but clearly not enough people did to be the majority that are needed to persuade the MPs its a bad idea.

[coolbluereason]

sorry, i hate smoking. i know it sucks that you can't do what you want and smoke when you want to smoke, but in the same way it sucks that i can't smell smoke when i don't want to.

[sweet_blindness]

But there is a third way! There should be smoking pubs and non-smoking pubs. Then no one infringes on anyone elses freedoms. If you have both smoking and non-smoking friends you do a pub crawl that goes non-smoking, smoking, etc. It could all be so simple!

[sweet_blindness]

I agree! People who don't like smokers never complain when they're in the pub, and I wouldn't smoke in front of people who teld me they didn't like it. However, they can sit in the family zone and bitch amongst themselves.