View Poll Results: Ban smoking?
Yes! Ban it!
86
68.25%
No, Lets be reasonable...
11
8.73%
Seperate smoking/non smoking areas
28
22.22%
I don't care!
1
0.79%
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POLL: Banning smoking
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From: Surrey/London borders.
Originally Posted by SiPie
Eh... hello 
Someone please post up stats of alchohol related unprovoked attacks where someone is bottled in the face or worse due to no action other than probably looking at someone the wrong way
Then the drink drive stats, domestic abuse, days off work with hangovers.... both are surely equally as bad.... but that's getting a bit off topic ... again
Yes smoking should be banned in public.... simply to respect the rights of those that don't want their air polluted. Those that do want to pollute their air with cancer inducing fumes should do it in their own bloody space
Someone please post up stats of alchohol related unprovoked attacks where someone is bottled in the face or worse due to no action other than probably looking at someone the wrong way
Then the drink drive stats, domestic abuse, days off work with hangovers.... both are surely equally as bad.... but that's getting a bit off topic ... again
Yes smoking should be banned in public.... simply to respect the rights of those that don't want their air polluted. Those that do want to pollute their air with cancer inducing fumes should do it in their own bloody space
No one's saying otherwise but this thread is about smoking. I'd be all for banning alcohol other than in licensed premises.
But as said before drinking doesn't cause a health hazard to those around you as smoking does. It's the person who can't handle thier alcohol that is the problem.
We are living in a nanny state, but someone needs to tell the govenment that common sense has to take priority!
I believe that it's the nanny state attitude that has dragged the country down! As if we are unable to make choices, as if we can't be trusted, as it we can take take some responsibility! And all because IMHO the UK has gone mad with trying too hard to be PC!
Don't smack/punish children - Look to the nearest Nova to see the consequences!
Soft sentencing from courts - Look at the crime statistics
Soft govenment policy - Look at the outcry about asylum seekers
Hard policy on drivers - Increased costs in petrol, road tax, insurance, increase in cameras, use of police time, etc.
Public services stretched to their limits - due to underfunding from the govenment
Yes, there are things that we like that will kill us, be it smoking, drinking, drugs, bungee jumping, driving quickly, gambling, whatever!
But FFS, let people make a choice, but please let us take responsibility for our lives!
I believe that it's the nanny state attitude that has dragged the country down! As if we are unable to make choices, as if we can't be trusted, as it we can take take some responsibility! And all because IMHO the UK has gone mad with trying too hard to be PC!
Don't smack/punish children - Look to the nearest Nova to see the consequences!
Soft sentencing from courts - Look at the crime statistics
Soft govenment policy - Look at the outcry about asylum seekers
Hard policy on drivers - Increased costs in petrol, road tax, insurance, increase in cameras, use of police time, etc.
Public services stretched to their limits - due to underfunding from the govenment
Yes, there are things that we like that will kill us, be it smoking, drinking, drugs, bungee jumping, driving quickly, gambling, whatever!
But FFS, let people make a choice, but please let us take responsibility for our lives!
Originally Posted by CarolineA
Just a quick clarification... is this poll looking at whether we ban smoking in all workplaces (like the Ireland ruling) or banning smoking altogether?
As I understand the Irish ruling people are still able to smoke outside. The ruling was brought in to make the workplace a safer place, not to make smoking illegal.
As I understand the Irish ruling people are still able to smoke outside. The ruling was brought in to make the workplace a safer place, not to make smoking illegal.
Some day I'm going to marry that girl!
Hurray, all you smokers can still huddle outside your offices!!!
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The reason I didn't go to this year's Scoobyball was because of the smoke last year. I'm amazed there are so many anti-smokers on Scoobynet, given that Andy and I seemed to be the only non-smokers there.
It was such a refreshing change when I went to California a few years ago to go to a nightclub and be able to breathe.
It was such a refreshing change when I went to California a few years ago to go to a nightclub and be able to breathe.
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