UK Bans Smoking in Pubs

Post by **Sloth** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:36 pm

It's The End of the World as We Know It, And I Feel Shitty

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics ... 99,00.html

Post by **Sloth** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:37 pm

God forbid we be unhealthy down the pub while we drink ourselves into oblivion.

Post by **Sloth** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:39 pm

It's all in the name of passive smoke damage to lungs.

God knows we all hate overly smoky pubs, but why in the fuck don't we put proper ventilation in smoking pubs?

People have always been free to have smoke-free pubs. Why does the government have to ruin it for everyone?

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:05 am

I hate to say it but I don't mind the idea of non-smoking pubs. I've divorced myself finally from cigarettes to the point that if someone's smoking around me I don't like it, and even though I have had the odd cig in the deepest drunkenness here and there, I don't think it's too much to ask that a person step outside. It won't kill a person to be outside. Just my two cents.

Post by **Sloth** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:18 pm

Where does it stop?

When we will not be allowed to drink in pubs?

Apparently McCutcheon won't mind anymore, but I sure will.

Post by **Sloth** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:21 pm

The point is:

It should be up to the patron of the establishment, not the fucking nazi Fourth Reich on a bad trip government.

marky · Post by **marky** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:49 pm

I admit the idea of not being allowed to drink in pubs does amuse me. Pubs where people try to bring in some cheap malt liquor in paper bags, stash a bottle of vodka in their coats, only to get caught by the "bartender" who serves Kool-Aid and promptly thrown out on their arse for drinking an alcoholic beverage in a pub.

Maybe what we need is "smoking pubs", by that I mean, you're not allowed to drink in these places, but the bartender serves cigarettes, and anyone not smoking is just plain uncool.

Post by **Sloth** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:30 am

I find smoking sexy and granola breath repulsive.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:16 pm

hmmmm I haven't witnessed that thus far.... Eitherway though, I'm a dancer and thus I smoke. It doesn't bother me though... smoking here is too damn expensive for me at the moment (a week and a half without a smoke... woo go me!)

tragic pixie · Post by **tragic pixie** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:18 pm

damn that was me...

Post by **mccutcheon** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:20 pm

how goes it? fall in love with the city or a boy or agirl or drink or pub or band or pair of shoes?

martino · Post by **martino** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:39 pm

here's a joke, everybody (but it is true!).

i just got back from a few days in dublin. they introduced a smoking ban there this year. i drank some guinness but not enough. the guinness was good for me and i did not miss the cigs because i was there with daughter, and she hates smoke. somehow non-smoking bars seemed stranger in new york a year ago than they do in dublin now. maybe i am just getting used to it...

last night i went to an irish pub here in frankfurt germany and had a guinness. it tasted swell but not as good as in dublin. i said this to the bartender:

"i hate to use the word ironic but it is ironic, isn't it?, i just got back from dublin where i couldn't smoke in a pub, and here i am in an irish pub in germany, drinking guinness and smoking. strange, wouldn't you say?", and the bartender shrugged,

"how would i know, i'm canadian".

Post by **mccutcheon** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:41 pm

Welcome back. And yes, Guinness in Ireland is the best in the world.

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