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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: es-jay on June 19, 2007, 11:26:22 AM
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the thread title is pretty self explanatory, so, do you smoke?
with the smoking ban coming into place in England i thought i would get the opinions of the Dub. the ban means you can get a fine just for lighting up a cigarette in a pub, or in the workplace. personally it is going to affect me, a lot. i seem to be in one of my local pubs every other night smoking... so come July 1st are we just supposed to stop?
the ban will probably make me quit (after several months of weening myself off) but i feel like its another example of the government telling us what we can and cant do. i certainly will miss lighting up a cig and drinking a pint...
i do understand the health risks, but when you think in comparison alcohol abuse can do damage aswell. but, well everyone loves alcohol.
so, what are your views. esp, people in the UK
smoke of choice:
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I understand why they shouldn't do it but I don't have a problem wit it. We have it here, you can't smoke in restaurants and shit, you have to go outside and I think that's how it should be becuz I'm sure nobody wants to eat while there's smoke all up on their food. Ya know what I'm sayin'?
Yes, they used to have smoking or non smoking sections but be for real, smoke travels.
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i understand what your saying, but when it comes to gettin pissed you want a cig with your beer. i dont wanna be stood outside all the time...
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we need it, just because someone wants to kill themselves doesnt mean i should have to die with them
and with alcohol i have the choice of drinking, second hand smoke i dont have the option of not breathing in
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It's been like that in Cali...some states still allow it though. I agree, it's stupid to keep smoking out of clubs and bars (pubs)...But restaurants, and shit like that, I understand...you pretty much can't smoke anywhere indoors nowadays. They even banned smoking on the beach a few years back...
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As for your choice of smokes, try this one...
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Yeah, bars is different. But I'm wit it for restaurants.
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oh yeh i agree with resteraunts, but pubs and bars are a different story.
@NIK nice stash, but you cant get away with smoking weed in a pub... a cig compliments a beer more than a joint.
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a cig compliments a beer more than a joint.
:nawty:
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It's been like that in Cali...some states still allow it though. I agree, it's stupid to keep smoking out of clubs and bars (pubs)...But restaurants, and shit like that, I understand...you pretty much can't smoke anywhere indoors nowadays. They even banned smoking on the beach a few years back...
cali got lotta indoor smokin places nah? clubs, bars, resturants, poolhalls
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It's been like that in Cali...some states still allow it though. I agree, it's stupid to keep smoking out of clubs and bars (pubs)...But restaurants, and shit like that, I understand...you pretty much can't smoke anywhere indoors nowadays. They even banned smoking on the beach a few years back...
cali got lotta indoor smokin places nah? clubs, bars, resturants, poolhalls
No...You can't smoke in any of those.
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They just passed a smoking ban here 2 months ago. No restaurants, bars, etc. Can't smoke within 20 feet of any business entrance / window. I'm not a smoker so it's all good to me. It is kinda weird going to a bar and not have that haze, but I do like comin out not stinkin like smoke. Plus that shit burns my eyes and stuffs me up anyway. The older I've gotten the less I like smoke anyway.
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It's been like that in Cali...some states still allow it though. I agree, it's stupid to keep smoking out of clubs and bars (pubs)...But restaurants, and shit like that, I understand...you pretty much can't smoke anywhere indoors nowadays. They even banned smoking on the beach a few years back...
cali got lotta indoor smokin places nah? clubs, bars, resturants, poolhalls
it aint legal but you can find places where they dont enforce the law. usually old ass family owned bars and pool halls
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English Smoking Ban surely?
I have mixed feelings about this, smokey atmospheres and pubs go together. But then I don't smoke so I don't really care and it is nice not to go home stinking of the shit.
Smokers make a bigger deal of it than it is, you're not being banned from smoking your being banned from blowing the stuff in the faces of people who probably prefer not being in contact with it.
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One more thing I do think in regards to smoking in pubs, is that they should have been allowed to make the choice themselves. The majority wouldn't ban it but that would be their choice, as privately owned premises surely they should have that choice. But then you get people saying it's not fair on those working in the pubs so who knows.
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I dont care since i dont smoke. I would rather if the entire club wasnt fishbowled with cigerette smoke.
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Yeah Wa's been like that for a while, can't smoke in public buildings
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Here in Belgium they passed a smoking ban in January: all restaurants which have an income higher than a certain amount are not allowed to have smoking zones in their diner anymore. Pretty stupid law since quite a lot of restaurants are under than amount and thus people can still smoke there.
They should ban smoking from ALL restaurants. And I presume that every smoker understands why non-smokers hate it when someone lights one up while other people are still eating.
But, I do understand that smokers don't like the idea of a ban in pubs/bars. The government indeed tells you what to do. I don't have a problem with it myself though going into a bar where smoking is prohibited since I don't smoke myself.
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As for your choice of smokes, try this one...
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Shit, how much weed would that be?
There has been a smoking ban in New Zealand for over a year now, I'm not quite sure. Alot of people were against it at first, but since then, people got used to the idea. The casino is never full, and half the clubbers will be out in the cold puffing away. At my old job, smokers had to go across the road, but because my boss was a smoker herself, she allowed them to enjoy their ciggys at the regular spot, the front entrance, lol.
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Don't casino's have their own rules? They don't get told what to do by states, word?
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Don't casino's have their own rules? They don't get told what to do by states, word?
yeah the indian owned ones
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It's been like that in Cali...some states still allow it though. I agree, it's stupid to keep smoking out of clubs and bars (pubs)...But restaurants, and shit like that, I understand...you pretty much can't smoke anywhere indoors nowadays. They even banned smoking on the beach a few years back...
cali got lotta indoor smokin places nah? clubs, bars, resturants, poolhalls
No...You can't smoke in any of those.
Actually, the law is that, you must have less than 7 employees, and they all have to have a stake in ownership. If the place fits all those requirements, you make smoke in the place.
In California THANK GOD, we can still smoke in Indian casinos as an earlier posted stated.
Here in Los Feliz, there used to be a place called Pros, a billiard place. You could smoke in there (and this is way after the ban was in effect) and that law was the precise reason.
Most clubs and bars I go to have an outdoor smoking lounge anyway. The bars aren't stupid. However, that's here in California, the weather is awesome most of the time.
I've been to England, and man, when it get's cold, it would be pretty rough trying to smoke without getting frostbite.
My sympathies ES Jay...
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^lol, al lot of bars have places out back to smoke, when it hits winter there will be umbrellas up with heaters on. i'm gonna try cut down though, i smoke way too much at the moment.
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look i dont give a fuck about any smoker, that shit stinks and his bad for health even for non smokers.
so fuck everyone that smokes, youre just retarded and shouldnt have started that crap
just die from it or stop or smoke in your house, not where im at
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Already had it here for about a year and the one thing you notice straight away in clubs in the smell of shite and BO which now are more apparent now there is no smoke.
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Already had it here for about a year and the one thing you notice straight away in clubs in the smell of shite and BO which now are more apparent now there is no smoke.
Oh shit, Preach On Brother... that's straight up!
Went to a hip hop rave back in '99 (back when they still had hip hop raves out in San Bernadino here in Cali) It was a huge complex, and the entrance was in the trance part of the club; MAN! :o the stench of 200 kids dancing in hot sweaty, stuffy wherehouse/club thingy was AWFUL! The whole place reeked of a giant onion sandwich.
Thank God the hip hop part was outside where there was major weed and nicotine being smoked.
That was the first and only time in my life when a smell actually knocked me back.
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Yeah Wa's been like that for a while, can't smoke in public buildings
yeah but they gonna ban it in public too, in the streets, parks, beaches etc,
i totaly agree with restaurants, places of work etc etcas its too confined and smells
clubs / pubs i think is a bad idea, you arent gonna go make your way thru a crowd after waiting in line getting a drink then do it all again at least twice just to go out for one smoke