Roll on the 10th December Smokefree bars

[Joni]

I dont smoke.... but smoke does not bother me, maybe its because I worked in smokey clubs night after night.... dunno, maybe its because I grew up with a smoker, but it does not bother me, but hey.... thats just me! :spudwhat:

[Juan]

I personally hate smoking, I grew up with parents who smoked like chimneys and still suffer with breathing problems even now, use three inhalers twice a day at the age of 43

Hate going out to a bar and then come home with sore throat and itchy eyes.... not to mention the stink on our clothes, really doesn't help with the lurve thing

Went out last sat to a tribute night to the two local racers who died during the Manx, this took place in the newly refurbished Villa Marina complex which is a non smoking building, just so nice, no smell to take home, wot a pleasant change...

All I need now is a ban on smoking at work....

Juan

[Blakamin]

shit.... I've been smoking constanly since i was 10.... was started by an older family member at 8.... gave up once when i was 13 for about 2 months...(got expelled and thus belted)
I actually enjoy smoking... only smoke rollies, only about 12 a day.... (unless i'm at the pub or a party) take my butts with me when I visit non-smokers (dare ya to find one of mine in ya garden, Paul in NZ) ... only smoke outside....(unless at aforementioned pub) and generally think of other people!
just looks like i wont go to pubs no more... they are gunna lose some $$$, let me tell ya

[Gen]

I am a smoker, have been since I was eighteen and I am now 22 and I have manners when it comes to where, and when I smoke.

I move away from my parents if we are at a function because they dislike it so much.

If I am in the company of complete non smokers I will either wait to go outside to have a ciggarette, or I will choose not to at all.



I always go outside to smoke and will keep my butts with my pack, not in other people's gardens etc.

I don't smoke in my own house, and I don't smoke in anyone else's unless they do so themselves. And I have found that I still prefer to go outside, I actually hate the smell of smoke inside a house.

I don't like the smell on my fingers, and I did stop for two months last year, but I was uni student and the stress at the time made it difficult not to start again.

Please don't place all smokers under the same blame, and to be quite frank, why is it so socially acceptable to be a drunk and stink of booze??

Is it because people view alcohol as less damaging? I guess it's a choice of poisons now isn't it?

It will be a pity, convienience wise, to not be able to have a beer with a ciggarette, but I am not going to cry over the new law.

Obviously people like me have lesser needs and are lesser people for being addicted to something so many people hate.

Perhaps I should become a drunk instead?? (muses).

[jrandom]

I am a smoker... I don't smoke in my own house, and I don't smoke in anyone else's unless they do so themselves...

Please don't place all smokers under the same blame, and to be quite frank, why is it so socially acceptable to be a drunk and stink of booze??

Getting drunk may be more socially acceptable than smoking, but it shouldn't be. And that's not the issue at stake here, anyway.

The main problem is, of course, that drinking booze doesn't give liver cancer to those within a 10 metre radius of you. And that's why there's a law against smoking in bars and restaurants; we *know* that if there were no law, there'd be more money to be made. That's why we legislate these things - sometimes a totally free market does not come up with the best situation possible.

Obviously people like me have lesser needs and are lesser people for being addicted to something so many people hate.

Nobody's saying that smokers are lesser people. But the law's there as an abridgement of pure capitalism (let 'em pay for what they want and do it where they please, etc) for the same reason that laws against child labour, and laws against employee exploitation and anti-union practises are in place. They don't promote absolute maximum economic efficiency, but they *do* increase the total sum of human health and happiness.

And that's why I'm not crying about the fact that you'll have to smoke and drink at home from now on.

[Yamahamaman]

just looks like i wont go to pubs no more...

Two negatives make a positive - in other words it is most likely that you will continue to go to pubs.

[Skyryder]

I could not agree more!

We walk out of places where we can't eat in peace.

Paul N

Ditto to that. My wife and I have been known to leave without paying. Once go into an argument with the restuarant manager over this very issue. We were half way through a meal when these clowns next to us lit up their cigars. All were completely pissed and rowdy. Asked the manager to ask them to stop smoking he refused so we up and left. Was sorley tempted to piss all over them.

Skyryder

[Blakamin]

Two negatives make a positive - in other words it is most likely that you will continue to go to pubs.

Sorry, I should rephrase that for the grammar police....
I wont go to pubs....
funny thing is, the only time I've been to pubs in the last year was a xmas do, bucks party, going away party and to live... havent actually "been to the pub" since xmas 2002 (???) when I worked in the hospitality industry and we'd go for a beer after work with the crew. so it really doesnt bother me...
It does however bother lots of our clients....

[Skyryder]

I'm glad you're so open-minded. Next time you're up in Auckland, let me know, and I'll pop over to your restaurant table and wank off into your wine glass.

And I will be right behind. Smokers believe that they have the right to pollute the air and as such other people. Now I could live with that if they would allow me to piss all over them. After all said and done their smoke is the by product of their pleasure, when I am drinking my piss is the by product of my pleasure.

Skyryder

[6Chris6]

Whats all this namby-pamby shit about?
You non-smokin pricks should be paying the tax on my smokes if your breathing it in so much.
They're my carcenogeny thingamees and if anyones gonna get lung cancer it should be me, after all i've paid good money for it!
So anyway i think it's a good thing so we don't share our smokes with these whinging, self righteus, my-bodies-a-temple type arseholes, they bore the shit outta me anyway

Lots of love
Chris

[Vagabond]

Whats all this namby-pamby shit about?
You non-smokin pricks should be paying the tax on my smokes if your breathing it in so much.
They're my carcenogeny thingamees and if anyones gonna get lung cancer it should be me, after all i've paid good money for it!
So anyway i think it's a good thing so we don't share our smokes with these whinging, self righteus, my-bodies-a-temple type arseholes, they bore the shit outta me anyway

Lots of love
Chris

Well said mate ! 2 non smokers

Next they'll want motorcycling banned, because thats a hazardous occupation !!

[White trash]

Whats all this namby-pamby shit about?
You non-smokin pricks should be paying the tax on my smokes if your breathing it in so much.
They're my carcenogeny thingamees and if anyones gonna get lung cancer it should be me, after all i've paid good money for it!
So anyway i think it's a good thing so we don't share our smokes with these whinging, self righteus, my-bodies-a-temple type arseholes, they bore the shit outta me anyway

Lots of love
Chris

I am laughing my fucken arse off! That has got to be the alltime funniest posts I've ever read. Well done that man.

[Paul in NZ]

Whats all this namby-pamby shit about?
You non-smokin pricks should be paying the tax on my smokes if your breathing it in so much.
They're my carcenogeny thingamees and if anyones gonna get lung cancer it should be me, after all i've paid good money for it!
So anyway i think it's a good thing so we don't share our smokes with these whinging, self righteus, my-bodies-a-temple type arseholes, they bore the shit outta me anyway

Lots of love
Chris

Yeah yeah we bore you!

(yawn)

Go visit my mate Nick (bloody nice guy) currently recovering from a bloody lung transplant because of fuggin' smoking. 5 minutes with him will change your mind I can assure you!

Smokers are all so bloody staunch until faced with the reality of the grim reaper and a slow lingering painful death and then the whinging, weeping and the law suits start.

Paul N

My body is a temple to beer

[White trash]

We were discussing this (among other things) breifly on Thursday night at the pool hall.

One of our highly (heh heh) regarded crew commented that after Dec 10, he'll be sitting upstairs watching the pool table all by himself. Go to ROQM and 90% of the patrons smoke. Playing pool and drinking beer while enjoying a couple'a packs is what I and many others do on a Thursday night. If I have to go outside and down to the street (and leave my drink inside) for a smoke, I'll simply stop going.

I agree that people have a right not to inhale S/H smoke, I beleive resteraunts and cafes should be totally smoke free. I think bars should either be able to choose or have designated smoking and non smoking areas.

I'm sure that the extremely nice staff at ROQM just chomping at the bit to find work after December the 10th because the joint is closed down.

[Blakamin]

Smokers are all so bloody staunch until faced with the reality of the grim reaper and a slow lingering painful death and then the whinging, weeping and the law suits start.

Paul N

My body is a temple to beer

Jeez Paul, you could never bore me!!!... that said, I watched my step-mothers father die of emphysema after smoking all his life..(lotsa years as a POW) and that, amazingly, never changed my view on smoking.... was 14 at the time

my body's a temple too... tryin to get the temple in the shape of buddha