10 years ago today

col8

col8

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The smoking in public places ban came into force, at the time I was a smoker and it pissed me right off. I felt I was persecuted by the government...

10 years on I reckon they got it right..... The only down side is sitting outside a pub having a beer and theres loads of people smoking :29:

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There was uproar at the time: accepted now though it has been a major part of independent pub closures
 
TEN? Goodness me... how time flies.

Great thing to have done. Dirty smelly habit, one that I never acquired and didn't want it pushed on me by those who did!
 
The Fear - 3/7/2017 17:09

TEN? Goodness me... how time flies.

Great thing to have done. Dirty smelly habit, one that I never acquired and didn't want it pushed on me by those who did!
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When I think back to sitting on a bus full of people smoking, parents smoking and ultimate its no wonder I was smoking was it. Sat in the cinema with clouds of smoke from cigarettes and pipes. These days I think even smokers would walk out.
 
I remember people smoking on planes with the non and smokers separated by a curtain.

WTF!!. Smoking in a pressurised environment 30,000 feet in the air. It's a health and safety minefield.

Great decision to ban. Hopefully many have given up meaning they don't become ill require Nhs treatment which in turn means money can be used elsewhere. My father in law died at 56 because of smoking. Detest it.
 
It was banned in 2004 in Ireland.
Interesting though how things change. We moved from Redditch to Dublin in 1979 and for the first several years after that if you travelled by train there would be ONE non-smoking compartment. (And there'd usually be at least one person who'd light up and would then almost invariably take the hump if you asked them to desist.)
 
kefkat - 2/7/2017 23:35

There was uproar at the time: accepted now though it has been a major part of independent pub closures
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Part, but major?, I doubt it. The main reason is that tinned fizz is readily available in every supermarket, every convenience store and every corner shop you can shake a stick at. Moving away from independent pubs, but 'tied pubs', were the owners, Punch Taverns for instance, squeeze the tenant landlord for ever increasing rents..... all due to the said tenant landlord actually making a success of his 'business', so automatically, rent goes up.

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