The smoking ban!

kiffer · 29-03-2004 01:06PM

Originally posted by alleepally
Originally posted by red_ice
["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!

Yes indeed! and remember people, Fairs Fair! so when I spray you in the face with a can of fart gas in responce, we'll be even and oh, how we will laugh!

Mercury_Tilt · 29-03-2004 01:50PM

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rymus · 29-03-2004 02:02PM

Originally posted by red_ice
next of all you will want a ban on private smoking too.

*sigh* If only... if only

Dustaz · 29-03-2004 02:25PM

Originally posted by rymus
*sigh* If only... if only

Why? What do you care what other people do when it doesnt affect you?

rubadub · 29-03-2004 02:33PM

me heart bleeds for them,
my lungs used to too

rymus · 29-03-2004 02:35PM

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people killing themselves if it's what they want to do.
I live with three smokers and it's not the nicest thing to come home in the evening to a house that smells like the inside of the worlds biggest ashtray, only to spend the entire evening wading around in clouds of smoke as I make my way around the house. It's rather like being in a pub... well, a pre-ban pub without the booze anyway.

I may buy myself an expensive gasmask in the coming months.

Kalina · 29-03-2004 03:04PM

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
The unfortunate side effect of this smoking ban is that given the fact that most of the populace of Dublin don’t seem to wash themselves or their clothes...their acrid smell will be come more apparent.

Food for thought really.

Ah crap Merc, never thought of that!!

Still, looking forward to a smoke-free drinking environment.

Ste.phen · 29-03-2004 03:26PM

On a similar note to what Mercury_tilt said:
Just imagine what the PUBS are going to smell like?

I mean most pubs used to be covered in a thick layer of smoke, and that was a pretty bad smell, but imagine what the smokey smell was hiding!

Jafar · 29-03-2004 05:12PM

Me forcasts beer gardens will open early this year.

Ever tried to find a beer garden in Dublin? This is a good side effect....more beer gardens....yay!!!

aidan_walsh · 29-03-2004 05:18PM

I'm tending to agree with Des Ekin in yesterdays Sunday World... They'll all be back in the pub again come Friday. sure they're smokers... No willpower...

red_ice · 29-03-2004 05:23PM

Originally posted by Jafar
Ever tried to find a beer garden in Dublin? This is a good side effect....more beer gardens....yay!!!

The auld dubliner has one. At least i think its the auld dubliner... its the one down from the music center on the corner - they have a back area which is usually packed in the summer. Nice place that, good fun and you always meet a good cround in there. Its been about 3 years since ive been in there. Nice place beacsue there is a bouncer at every entrance

Id say thats gonna get some business during the summer

Ancient1 · 29-03-2004 07:07PM

You can smoke herbal cigarettes - see today's Irish Times.

seanybiker · 30-03-2004 12:55AM

Inconsiderate smoking scum!

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Towards anti-social,solo,solo

Well if thats what you think. keep it to yourself.

Supposedly Guinness arte offering free pints but ould michael martin might be stopping them doing that to. we just cant think.

seanybiker · 30-03-2004 12:59AM

red_ice 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.

I'm beginning to like you a lot. go on the smokers.

BlitzKrieg · 30-03-2004 03:46AM

I dont get how people can see a banning of beer etc is gonna come from this. The majority ruled in favour of this and as you can see from alot of posters there is alot of support how the hell do you think martin gonna get a beer restriction when he wont get the support he is getting now. There is a much larger gap between the smoking population and drinking population...

BKtje · 30-03-2004 04:00AM

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

and ill laugh when they chuck you out. I have no time for law breakers

neXus9 · 30-03-2004 04:24AM

Originally posted by B-K-DzR
and ill laugh when they chuck you out. I have no time for law breakers

Yeah, it would be quite hilarious.

rubadub · 30-03-2004 02:11PM

Originally posted by BlitzKrieg
There is a much larger gap between the smoking population and drinking population...

more importantly is that drinking doesnt harm people in their workplace. some doctor was on rte news last night saying he doesnt mind people smoking at home but they should be informed of the risks and have the right to smoke as long as it doesnt harm others. pity he didnt speak up about all other drugs.

BuffyBot · 30-03-2004 05:09PM

more importantly is that drinking doesnt harm people in their workplace.

They just do harm in other places. On the roads, in their homes, in hospitals where drunken gobsh*ites abuse the staff every day of the week..the list goes on.

kiffer · 30-03-2004 05:29PM

I guess this would be a bad time to state that all the bad things that alcohol causes are baned in there own right...

Drink Driving, drunk and disorderly, lude(sp?) behavior, vomiting on people at ATMs, assalt and so on.
now we've baned the things that smoking does, harms the health of the people who work in areas which ware till now smoke filled.

that is the only comparison with I can see right now with a ban on alcohol.

whats the wiccan thing?
do as you will, but do no harm?

drink as much as you like but if you punch some ones lights out you're going to get charged with assalt. (or rather should be)
smoke but not where you're going to harm others.

sounds totaly reasonable to me (as a non smoker who wont get the jitters after not smoking for a few hours...) but to a smoker (who is anti the ban) this seems like a crazy statment... why?

eirebhoy · 30-03-2004 06:30PM

Originally posted by kiffer
I guess this would be a bad time to state that all the bad things that alcohol causes are baned in there own right...

Drink Driving, drunk and disorderly, lude(sp?) behavior, vomiting on people at ATMs, assalt and so on.
now we've baned the things that smoking does, harms the health of the people who work in areas which ware till now smoke filled.

exactly. Well said.

The smoking ban!

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