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jshell Jun 30, 2007 21:42:22
Replying to Brik

Had it at home in Scotland for ages now!

The pubs and clubs are as busy as always, none of the scare-stories turned out true: businesses closed, people on the dole, collapse of traditional way of life!

The worst thing is though, that pubs and clubs smell bad! Smoke used to mask it, but not anymore...still not worth repealling the ban.

I get to taste my food now, my clothes don't stink in the morning when I get up and go through to the living room where they're chucked over a chair and I don't get the same sore, raspy throat that I did when surrounded by smokers.

There is a new thing called 'Smirting' though, when the people who still smoke huddle together outside and share a lighter/match/fag, they get to chat and flirt, having the common ground of smoking...

C common era
common era Jul 1, 2007 13:45:14
Replying to jshell

As a smoker myself, I am in total support of the ban. I think it is well overdue and in many respects England is behind on this. Yes, people will grumble initially, but in a year or so nobody will notice any more.

You should not be able to smoke anywhere that is a workplace for someone else. The last Premier of Alberta, Ralph Klein (arrogant Conservative smoker) said in reponse to this when Alberta was debating a ban that these people could always get a job in a place where you can't smoke. But for many, who live in small towns etc. this simply isn't an option.

Anything that can be done to assist people to quit and more importantly to prevent people starting in the first place should be done.

Always remember that smoking is a priviledge not a right.

F FourWinds
FourWinds Jul 4, 2007 06:17:45
Replying to jshell

jshell wrote:
There is a new thing called 'Smirting' though, when the people who still smoke huddle together outside and share a lighter/match/fag, they get to chat and flirt, having the common ground of smoking...
Smoking is no longer an anti-social habit. In fact it's very social. You meet and talk to all kinds of folks that you'd never have spoken to in the past.

I read a small article that, in Ireland, there have been a significant number of marriages that started out with a chance meeting at the communal ashtray.

S shanshee_allures
shanshee_allures Jul 4, 2007 07:23:25
Replying to jshell

jshell wrote:
There is a new thing called 'Smirting' though, when the people who still smoke huddle together outside and share a lighter/match/fag, they get to chat and flirt, having the common ground of smoking...
Hehe I wondered how/when they would contextualise this as some 'sub-culture'.
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