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(Message started by: Baz on Jul 1^st, 2007, 8:53pm)

Title: New Smoking Laws
Post by Baz on Jul 1^st, 2007, 8:53pm

In line with the new government legislation, fordscorpio.co.uk is now a non-smoking website. Please extinguish all cigarettes before continuing any further!! ;D

http://www.nottokids.ca/ntkbeta/Images/Retail/No%20Smoking.jpg

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Matt on Jul 1^st, 2007, 9:37pm

lol nice one baz

but ive been thinking (quick all run for cover)

as smoking in doors in all public places is now banned, and you can only smoke outside in designated areas, and who would wanna go out side in the weather we've been having lol, so whats to stop you, lets say, parking an old coach/bus etc.. in your pub car park and using that as a smoking room, ur indoors kind of,

just a though and im sure some one will be along any second and tell me to go hide in my car ;D :P

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by TiberiuS on Jul 1^st, 2007, 9:59pm

If it's cloudy, does the oustide get classed as a closed room? :-/

I mean, with all this climate change going on, we can't have smokers polluting our environment and melting the polar ice caps ::)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by jonnycab on Jul 1^st, 2007, 11:40pm

on 07/01/07 at 21:59:48, TiberiuS wrote:

I mean, with all this climate change going on, we can't have smokers polluting our environment and melting the polar ice caps ::)

What....like cars, lorries & buses do ;)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Baz on Jul 2^nd, 2007, 8:15am

I think the main grey area with these shelters and things is that once they start to be used as a smoking place, someone has to clean them which automatically makes that someones place of work and thus makes it a non-smoking area!!

I stopped 4 years ago and I really am the disgruntled ex-smoker. I hate it with a passion.... even though my wife and my 21 year old son still smoke!!

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by ghia-x on Jul 2^nd, 2007, 2:38pm

Hi all. We all went up to the club lastnight & you could see :o the bar from where we sat :D. Mind you I did notice some empty seats, NOT because of the smoking ban. But they were all in the enterance, (under cover) blocking the way in/out, so we now have a MAJOR FIRE HAZARD now ???
This has happened because the club is to TIGHT to previde shelters }{.

Law state's that shelter can ONLY have 50% of coverage. Won't cost much.

I should'nt worry it'll be closed soon }{ }{.

Ghia-x

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by pat on Jul 2^nd, 2007, 7:59pm

There's smoke coming out of my computer.
Come on - who's disobeying the directive?! >:(

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by TRACEYS_LIMO on Jul 6^th, 2007, 10:54pm

the smoking ban i think is good, and i smoke :( it is easy to say give up but you try it. mind you i dont drink, just dont like the taste of most drink, mind you it wont take long for the none smokers to follow the smokers outside, they will not want to miss anything. when we are out i do by a round, the last time i bought a pint of lager and lime for my self it cost 51 pence ::)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Baz on Jul 7^th, 2007, 11:23am

Tracey.... I would disagree with you on one point

I was a smoker; at least 40 a day and I gave up after 3 weeks on patches about 4 years ago. Why you ask? because my little lad said to me one day "you stink daddy... don't pick me up!" ... worked for me ;D

Mind you I was talking to a lady the other day who gave up for 12 years then started again last month!! how daft was that

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by TiberiuS on Jul 7^th, 2007, 8:39pm

Well, Afghanistan gets the Taliban, we get the Toblerone enforced Smokingban...

...Both are severe forms of law enforced by a draconian regime so little difference between the two :-/

Speaking of the esteemed Taliban, where's our own rebel fighter of similar name got to lately? ;D

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Big_Green_Tank on Jul 9^th, 2007, 1:56pm

Yawn and go to sleep if you like.
But I actually read the exemption clauses to the Smoking Ban the other week and discovered something interesting.

A licensed Tobacconist can allow people to sample smoke tobacco on his/her premises as long as there are ample signs warning that the area is not smoke free and that any door that joins onto a public area or the outside is "Self Shutting".

So why has no-one applied for a drinking license in a Tobacconists yet?

I gave up over 20 years ago, but I do think the new law allthough it does some good is very Draconian.
So what happens when they finally want to ban Chewing gum or Alcoholic drinks?

Bob

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by pat on Jul 9^th, 2007, 6:27pm

Don't worry, Bob, there's plenty of time before that happens - at least tomorrow. ;D

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Baz on Jul 11^th, 2007, 9:15am

There is apparently a problem in Stoke with the smoking ban. The Council didn't apply for the necessary rights to enfrce it (or something like that) so according to one landlord, the smokers took their ashtrays back inside and are still smoking in the pub..... for now!!

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by big_neil on Jul 11^th, 2007, 5:11pm

me an er indoors went to a 65th party tother night and we both simultaneously said when we got home"makes a change our clothes not stinking of fags"i,ve not got a problem with people smoking but i do object when someone puffs a fag between courses when they are eating with me at my table. i cant see how any one struggles to stop smoking , i smoked about 30 a day, then one day in 1975 they put up the price of fags in the budget and i said thats it no more,very easy. the following year my dad died of lung cancer thro smoking and that made me even more determined to not start again. listen to dell boy "you know it makes sense".

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by pat on Jul 11^th, 2007, 8:34pm

Wasn't that Barbara Castle when she brought in the seat belt laws?

And remember what a stink THAT caused.

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by wayne on Jul 12^th, 2007, 7:52pm

Our local council is advertising for three 'enforcement officers'...
Made me wonder how the law is enfoced in prisons?...
I hope said enforcement officers visit places like the Scrubs & Winson Green., not just the easy targets like pubs.
Mind you, our nearest nick is Sudbury, and they can go out when they please anyway! ::)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Big_Green_Tank on Jul 16^th, 2007, 3:40pm

Wasn't Prisons one of the exemptions?
Probably to avoid country wide prison riots (Not enough SAS about to send in as riot breakers)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by wayne on Jul 16^th, 2007, 7:01pm

Exempt ???

I should've guessed!!!

So old Joe in the corner, who fought in the war can't have a pint and a roll up but the scrote who mugged him for his pension can have a smoke whilst on his playstation, in between table-tennis and pool... I'm not starting a for & against debate again... that discussion ran it's course. I just can't help but shake my head and think 'summat aint right'.. ::)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by pat on Jul 17^th, 2007, 7:56pm

Wayne wrote "the scrote who mugged him for his pension can..."

As the House of Commons bar is, I believe, also exempt, can I just ask - you do mean a criminal and not his MP don't you ?

What do you mean," is there a difference ?" {} ;D

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by jg on Jul 18^th, 2007, 4:08pm

This smoking law is interesting, Fareham, the law there comes into effect in 9 days time.

Why, because the local Council could not come to a decision on whether to bring it in or not, the Vote was hung, there seems to be a very big LOOP HOLE.

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by jonnycab on Jul 18^th, 2007, 4:18pm

Made me laugh on hearing recently that some nightclubs & pubs etc are having to pump sweet smelling odours through their ventilation systems now to try & cover the stench of stale beer & body odour ::).....the smoke always did the job before ;)

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Big_Green_Tank on Jul 18^th, 2007, 4:24pm

on 07/18/07 at 16:18:54, jonnycab wrote:

Apparently that was a problem that was noticed in Ireland and Scotland, but as usual not taken into consideration when bringing No Smoking in to England

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by petehull on Jul 18^th, 2007, 4:37pm

}{ }{ }{ Typical....

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Kjetil S on Jul 18^th, 2007, 7:43pm

on 07/18/07 at 16:18:54, jonnycab wrote:

Maybe a stretch, but soap and water have worked for our local student pub }{ }{ }{

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by Big_Green_Tank on Jul 18^th, 2007, 8:52pm

on 07/18/07 at 19:43:42, Kjetil S wrote:

Maybe a stretch, but soap and water have worked for our local student pub }{ }{ }{

I like it }{ }{ }{ }{ }{

Title: Re: New Smoking Laws
Post by jg on Jul 18^th, 2007, 9:16pm

on 07/18/07 at 16:18:54, jonnycab wrote:

Cannot wait to come home from a night club smelling like a cheap hooker
::) [] ;D The wife would kill me {}