This smoking ban is brilliant.

Panda

Might not be a popular opinion but i'd say the vast majority of people on boards are not smokers.

For people like me here are the pros and cons of this ban.
Pros:
1)Stink is gone.
2)Stink from clothes is gone.
3)Ashtrays are gone. (more room for beer on the table.)
4)Stink from hair/skin is gone.
5)Lack of burning sensation in the eyes is gone.

Cons:
1)Much harder to get away with farting. Kinda have to leave the general area. There was actually a glade plug-in air freshner in a pub i was in at the weekend more than likely for this reason.
2)People who stink of sweat.
3)Groups tend to get broken into the smokers/nonsmokers and the ones who are trying to give up and wont shut their trap about it.

anything to add?

Stark

There's a regular smokers club forming outside the doors of pubs, all the smokers are raving about the atmosphere. Non-smokers meanwhile are left inside (where it's warm ).

In a busy pub, there's way more traffic with people bumping into you, you now have the people going to the bar for drink and the people going outside to smoke.

Kalina

I think it's brilliant too. I was in the Trinity Rooms in Limerick on Saturday night, the place was so fresh with no smoke and my hair didn't reek when I got home.
Absoultely excellent!

Stark

I don't have to worry about wearing contact lenses
Now all I have to worry about is the smell of other people's spilt drink on my clothes in the morning

Auburn

Originally posted by Panda
Cons:
1)Much harder to get away with farting. Kinda have to leave the general area. There was actually a glade plug-in air freshner in a pub i was in at the weekend more than likely for this reason.

lol!!

I'm a smoker myself so I'd have to say:

I like a relaxing smoke, like after a meal or with a pint. The ban makes this more difficult for me, therefore giving me an extra push to try giving them up. (I want to give up *)

* well maybe I don't....... I dunno...... I have no willpower

Paulw

Thankfully my group of friends are non-smokers too, so we're all enjoying it more (yes, some reformed smokers in the group). It's so nice to have a few pints and not stink of smoke. Also, the pub seems to have more life. The stale air is gone, and it's better.

Fair play to the govt.

It's also good to hear that the pubs in Dublin have suffered no ill effects on the first weekend, and the new law is working well.

BendiBus

I found it really hard to get used to the smell of beer in the pub on Friday night!

Sleepy

I've never seen Dubliners as friendly as the smokers you meet outside the pub. We all seem to be secretly thrilled about the ban. Must be something to do with the Irish psyche: we love to have something to grumble and feel opressed about!:D

Bigggest con (and I'm a smoker) is that you can smell the stench of the carpets in pubs and clubs that the cigarette smoke hid for so many years!

rymus

was in a pub yesterday after a bike run and I must say I forgot completely about the ban. When I finally woke up though I noticed just how clear and tangy the air was with the pungent odour of bikers farts and bad breath.

Ban methane from pubs in Spring 2005 I say... ban those filthy phantom pharters for good!

(would there then be dedicated farting areas of pubs?)

BendiBus

You should be drinking in proper pubs with wood or stone floors. :cool:

ixoy

Originally posted by Sleepy
I've never seen Dubliners as friendly as the smokers you meet outside the pub. We all seem to be secretly thrilled about the ban. Must be something to do with the Irish psyche: we love to have something to grumble and feel opressed about!:D

Actually yeah I noticed that people who would never normally have met, were all chatting to one another as they smoked in their little groups. It seemed rather sociable in an odd way. It seems to be going down very well in the city centre of Dublin and I can't say I noticed any difference in crowd numbers on either Thursday or Friday night.

Stark

I've never seen Dubliners as friendly as the smokers you meet outside the pub. We all seem to be secretly thrilled about the ban. Must be something to do with the Irish psyche: we love to have something to grumble and feel opressed about!

Sign a petition to have England conquer us again! That should get us all united

Sleepy

It was the same in Galway at the weekend as well. Maybe that's why we keep electing gob****es: so that we've something to complain about!

Sleepy

Originally posted by k.oriordan
Sign a petition to have England conquer us again! That should get us all united

Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.:cool:

T.G Catter

ah yes i can see it now, babies with poor respitory systems...

Panda

Originally posted by Sleepy
I've never seen Dubliners as friendly as the smokers you meet outside the pub. We all seem to be secretly thrilled about the ban. Must be something to do with the Irish psyche: we love to have something to grumble and feel opressed about!:D

Bigggest con (and I'm a smoker) is that you can smell the stench of the carpets in pubs and clubs that the cigarette smoke hid for so many years!

I'd say the novelty of it might wear off soon enough though.
It's gonna be hard to explain to the european tourists though....

Sleepy

They'll all just think that Dublin is one giant Red Light district! :P

Mossy Monk

i must actually go to a pub to see what difference this ban has made. i am hearing different views from both smokers and non/exsmokers

herbie747

Smoking is more of a lower class habit, and I don't tend to mingle with that type of crowd anyway....y'know - the curry eaters!

KlodaX

Pro: those nice people who serve us alcohol have less chance of dying
Pro: I can go outside to smoke something a little stronger without being obvious


observation: Its like in secondary school where all the smokers hung around the sheds and the non-smokers on the benches.


Con: Publicans have to update there establishments with outside shelter, and when the winter kicks in, heat... you know those beergarden lantern heater thingys ... otherwise they may loose customers.

SprostonGreen

I have to say that I think its brilliant also. Definitely love not having my streaming and my clothes stinking. I was in the Bleeding Horse on Friday, they have a smoking section outside with heating under umbrellas.

All my smoker mates said that it had a great atmosphere.

Lump

I'm only back in Ireland this evening, went in to the Poitin (sp?) stil this evening, MAN IT WAS ACE, I walked in the door and I could actually smell perfume that three lovely ladies to my left were wearing. I could smell the beer roasting on the spit.... How can people be against it?


John

smoke.me.a.kipper

i like it. im smoking a hell of alot less, about 10-15 a night instead of close to 40. its all good.

Red Alert

what will the smokers want next, a special outdoor giant TV screen for the big games?

TheSonOfBattles

Originally posted by Panda
Groups tend to get broken into the smokers/nonsmokers and the ones who are delighted about the smoking ban and wont shut their trap about it.

Fixed.

By the way, i'm not a smoker. I just think the smug self satisfaction some mongs get from the ban is pathetic. I personally could care less either way, as I don't mind having a smell that WASHES OFF my clothes easily as the price for good conversation with my friends. The whole thing makes not one bit of differance in my life.

TCamen

It seems to be going down very well in the city centre of Dublin and I can't say I noticed any difference in crowd numbers on either Thursday or Friday night.

Was out last Tuesday & Friday nights. Tuesday in Metropolitan seemed quieter than usual at first, but it got busier later on, back to it's normal levels.
Friday night in town, it was funny seeing all the smokers out on the streets. At first I was thinking "Jeez look at the queues for there", but then I remembered :rolleyes:

Definitely a big plus waking up the next day without smokey clothes, or sore eyes/throat from the smoke.
I likes it!

Bard

Originally posted by Red Alert
what will the smokers want next, a special outdoor giant TV screen for the big games?

Yes. And shur why not?

Make the beer garden more fun!

In the hotel I work in, they now have three large TV's in our outdoor area (since the ban came in), on which the smokers (or whoever) can watch whatever sport happens to be on. We also use a camera trained on the stage inside to show our live bands on the TV's outside.

Mossy Monk

what hotel is this

sounds pretty decent

Cabaal

Originally posted by ixoy
Actually yeah I noticed that people who would never normally have met, were all chatting to one another as they smoked in their little groups. It seemed rather sociable in an odd way.

I was out Sat night at a birthday party and I gota say I've noticed its seemed to make a new social group of people.
Surely its a good thing for these random people to meet and get chatting outside the pub

Now they can get half cancer smoke and half fresh air so they'll have a few more years added to there life.

There's a pub down here in Waterford that has signs on all the windows with "Don't Vote Fianna Fail" with a no-smoking sign on it.
I think its very bad form and I will not be going to that pub for the near future.

Originally posted by TCamen
At first I was thinking "Jeez look at the queues for there", but then I remembered :rolleyes:

lol, I thought the exact same on Sunday night, the street was really busy loads of people out chatting and stuff
I'm still finding the smoking ban kinda sureal.

Funny thing is, what will happen to all the "cool kids" in schools around that country that have taken up smoking now they'll have to use there pocket money to get themselfs off it so they can enjoy watching matches etc in pubs when they get older

Should be very interesting to see how the ban affects smoking thrends in schools for both boys & girls.

Bard

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
what hotel is this

sounds pretty decent

It's the Old Mill in Julianstown - lovely place. They just installed electric heaters in the outdoor area there today... already have gas heaters there.

The Guinness is gorgeous there