The smoking ban!

red_ice · 28-03-2004 03:59PM #1

So here it is, our last day of being able to smoke in a pub! How do you think its gonna hold out?

I bet the pubs will lose loads of costomers and the price of drink will rise!

Karoma · 28-03-2004 04:00PM

*plays the world's smallest violin*

bizmark · 28-03-2004 04:02PM

YEP its a true pitty smokers cant kill the rest of us with their habbit

red_ice · 28-03-2004 04:06PM

ohh i cant wait to see this post blossom within the next week

byte · 28-03-2004 04:07PM

Maybe booze will get cheaper in an effort to get people back into pubs? :rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight · 28-03-2004 04:37PM

Two chances - but just maybe...

kaimera · 28-03-2004 04:54PM

Originally posted by red_ice
So here it is, our last day of being able to smoke in a pub! How do you think its gonna hold out?

I bet the pubs will lose loads of costomers and the price of drink will rise!

you dick...the price IS going up around June. Guinness were stopped from increasing the price at the beginning of March and they put it back till around June.

Regardles of the smoking ban, beer IS going up.

Apparently there is a 2 week grace period where publicans wont be fined for people smoking.

personally...I cant wait but I'm also glad i dont have to work tomorrow. By the time I get back this friday, it should have calmed down.

alleepally · 28-03-2004 05:00PM

Front of Sunday Indo today

"Guinness offers free drink to lure smokers back to pubs"

apparantly they are offering 10,000 free pints if you sign up on their website. Big advertising campaign kicking off soon called "Here's to the pub"

Indeed, here's to the pub and the 30% of ye (including me) who are told to fcuk off outside for half the night to smoke.

PHB · 28-03-2004 05:19PM

Sucks to be a smoker doesn't it

Take it

Doodee · 28-03-2004 05:59PM

yup, ya hear non smokers complain about poluting their air.
What about the polution caused by your constant whinging.

Let the smokers smoke.

Mercury_Tilt · 28-03-2004 06:08PM

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dazberry · 28-03-2004 06:30PM

Just give up pubs - that's what I'm doing. Well I'm actually giving up drinking - but I'm not disposed to paying a small fortune for soft drinks in a bar.

But the irony of all this is that the wonders of the smoking ban will fall into insignificance over the next number of years - me/thinks of smart cards and monthly drinking quotas. The ground work has been laid.

D.

EKRIUQ · 28-03-2004 06:43PM

glad the bans coming in about bloody time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

red_ice · 28-03-2004 07:04PM

i think its funny that there will be another side to this ban. More people will be drinking at home and the poeple in the groups that have these parties will be the smokers. Where will the croud head to when the smokers refuse to go out?

house parties! yay, where everyone can smoke what they like, when they like.

next of all you will want a ban on private smoking too.

Maybe the reason that drink is going up around june is influenced by the smoking ban and this was planned with it in mind Kaimera... you fucking muppet.

Nuttzz · 28-03-2004 07:05PM

smoke 'em if ya got 'em!!!

Capt'n Midnight · 28-03-2004 07:15PM

Me forcasts beer gardens will open early this year..
Also now's the time to buy shares in patio heaters and unbrella companies

Woden · 28-03-2004 07:31PM

so if a work place is outdoors the ban does not apply is it?

Capt'n Midnight · 28-03-2004 07:46PM

Only applies to enclosed workplaces - no I don't know the exact legal definition of enclosed, AFAIK fields are enclosed.

Pepe LeFrits · 28-03-2004 08:03PM

Depends on group circles i suppose, **** all people i know smoke, so if those who do decide to be huffy little bitches and not go to the pub, then they'll be having a lot of quiet evenings

hurrah for the ban

I am MAN · 28-03-2004 09:06PM

Inconsiderate smoking scum!

Bungalow Bill · 28-03-2004 09:08PM

I for one am glad of this ban. Non-smokers hate you blowing your cancer into our faces. How you think that this isn't ignorant i'll never know.

DMT · 28-03-2004 10:00PM

One hour to go....

Just imagine, if the clocks hadn't gone forward last night, there's be two hours to go....

strawberry · 28-03-2004 10:59PM

I'll never have to shampoo my hair three times to get rid of the smell of smoke ever again - *bliss*

kiffer · 28-03-2004 11:04PM

I, for one, wellcome our smoke free overlords!

SMOKING BAN NOW IN EFFECT!
he he he he, I cant wait to go to work.

flywheel · 28-03-2004 11:11PM

it's great - looking forward to a nice evening out not having to deal with other people's smoke...

red_ice · 28-03-2004 11:20PM

yippie i cant wait to go into the college students union and get told not to smoke

They will recieve a swift middle finger, a brisk comment somewhere along the lines of 'fuck off!' and alot of smoke blown in their face.

Then naturally the non smokers will whine - but then again, the smokers outnumber em, so they will go elsewhere and we will have the free pool tables, tables tennis, table football, jukebox and couches all to ourselves

Happens every year in my college

dod · 28-03-2004 11:27PM

In the pub tonight, they were giving away for free all their cigars etc. from the Cigar box, I presume on the basis that they can't sell them in the bar now that smoking in the bar is prohibited.

I am loath, for any reason, to congratulate the current disgraceful excuse for a government for anything, but all credit to Minister Martin. Well done on bringing this ban in.

Civilian_Target · 28-03-2004 11:28PM

When I come home at easter, I can enjoy a night where no asshole in the dance floor will burn me, and when I wake up in the morning will smell solely of beer, and not of smoke as well

Renton · 28-03-2004 11:36PM

****it, its grand, smokings a disgusting fúcking habit.

I'd hope the prices of beer will drop in an effort to bring people into pubs, and I'd also hope that hangovers will decrease since people wont be smoking as many smokes.

****it it also means if you have to go outside for a smoke, you can pre-roll a few spliffs, its far easier to get away with smoking a joint outdoors.

den

eirebhoy · 28-03-2004 11:40PM

Anyone got any stories of people refusing to put out their smoke or something along those lines?

alleepally · 28-03-2004 11:41PM

"yippie i cant wait to go into the college students union and get told not to smoke

They will recieve a swift middle finger, a brisk comment somewhere along the lines of '**** off!' and alot of smoke blown in their face."

Fair play to you red_ice!! I like your style!

The smoking ban!

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