Smoking Ban in Public - Yes or No?

[Crisspy Fiver]

I have been looking at the sky news poll asking if smoking should be banned in public. I think this is a bit wide spread and have deciced to ask about pubs and restaurants as this is probably the heart of the argument currently.

I am an ex smoker so no attacking me please. Just curious to your thoughts.

I thought I had posted this but it seems to not have gone through. If this is a double post let me know and I will delete.

Thanks

Jamie

[Dr Stevil]

People aren't going to stop smoking so they need somewhere to do it, my personal view would be to have smoking in pubs but ban it in restaurants and on the streets/shopping centres etc

As an ex-smoker I hate walking behind someone who's smoking in the street because I can't choose not to use the street, but I can choose to go into (or not) a pub where there's smoking. And people smoking when others are eating is really f***ing inconsiderate

[Simon A]

I feel that Pubs should be forced by law to have a properly ventilated non smoking section.
That way the smokers can indulge their addiction and I can choose if I'm going to put up with it. At the moment the few pubs round here that have non smoking sections, turn them into smoking areas at 7pm.

Simon A

[Juz]

<font color='#32CD32'>I agree totally with Steve - that seems like a reasonable solution.

I'd expand it to say that a pub that serves food, counts as a restaurant.

Juz

[FOX]

<font color='#348781'>As a non-smoker my main gripe is stinking of someone else’s stale smoke after an evening out. I enjoy a night out in a pub but being a non-smoker I really have no option than to suffer other peoples smoke. I don't know of any local pub where the staff will enforce a no smoking area and on the whole these areas just don't work on a busy night.

The NHS or Govt could always dish out rebreathers to non-smokers! I'll have that nice black one at the show (he's says showing his complete ignorance!)

[Fathoms Down]

I went to San Francisco on business shortly after California banned smoking in bars and resteraunts. There was a lot of negative comments about loss of business that banning smoking would bring and how it would isolate smokers but I found the opposite happening. Smokers would go outside into a small area with other smokers, have a ciggy and a chat and then go in to have their drinks or food.

I'm a big beliver that people should be free to do what they want (within reason) without laws that affect their personal habits too much but, as a non smoker, it was really nice to have a night out without dodging smoke all night and stinking in the morning.

[MATTBIN]

My daughter smokes but only when she goes into pubs/clubs as she says her brain is trained into that and its very difficult to break the association. I'll take her word for it, being a non-smoker, so a ban on Pub/Club/Restaurant smoking would really cheer me up, I doubt if she's alone in this brain-washed state.
Personally I dis-like the morning after stink too if I've been down the pub with a few others who do smoke, strange how so many divers DO smoke. Evil addiction.

Matt

[JAG]

<font color='#000080'>My twopenneth worth..

Ban in all public places. If people want to smoke then that's their choice which I fully respect. My objection is to public places where a no-smoking section is 2 feet from a smoking section. Because there's a sign smoke won't cross the boundary??

When someone gets of a commuter train at Fenchurch St and immediately lights a fag and I get a facefull of their life ending nectar, it seriously hacks me off! &nbsp; Stubbing the offending cancer stick out in their eyes would be lenient.

Apologies for the rant but losing both parents to smoking related illnesses and seeing how it destroys people has made me very touchy on the subject.

Before I get hammered for this, please remember this is my opinion, we're all entitled one.

Rant officially over &nbsp; &nbsp;

All the best,

Ian

[Sean]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (gityerkneedahn @ Mar. 29 2004,13:04)]As a non-smoker my main gripe is stinking of someone else’s stale smoke after an evening out. I enjoy a night out in a pub but being a non-smoker I really have no option than to suffer other peoples smoke.

Agree I hate getting back home and everything stinks of smoke..

[jlwarlow]

<font color='#008080'>Ban in public areas. I always hear the argument of freedom of choice, but none smokers don't get the choice of not breathing exhaled smoke. I know a few people will say yes they do, don't walk/go to places where people smoke - but then that wouldn't be my choice would it? I would be excluded from places because of a smokers choice to light up.

I do however think there should be places for smokers, I worked in a company that was none-smoking so customers/workers had to go outside to smoke. They left their but ends all over the place which made the entrance unisightly. My previous job had a smokers room with ventilation, there were ashtrays there to keep the place tidy and the smokers where happy and warm. As an added benefit the company didn't have people loitering around the entrance puffing away! I just wish pubs / restaurants had the same thing, in my experience the smoking/none smoking areas are divided by an invisible wall that smoke has no problem in passing though - I've also on occasion found the none smoking section full and would either have to go elsewhere or sit in the smoking section hoping that I wasn't near a chain smoker.

Just my 2p worth