Smoking Ban finally to arrive in England?!

WhiteWashMan · 09-10-2005 06:58PM

so you dont think that the majority of the population are in favour of it then?

from what i have read and seen, the majority of people in the UK would be in favour of an all out ban from smoking in pubs.
In fact, wetherspoons currently operates around 60 (i think) smoke free pubs around the UK,a nd plans to make all of them smoke free over the next 2 years.

but im not sure why you would use a word like fascist. that would assume that there was a stong control of social control through terror or censorship. i hardly think the smoking ban is either terror inducing, or a form of censorship. i mean, you can smoke outside? besides, if its popular, im thinking it is then in the majority, and fascism is generally regarded as centralisation of authority under a dictator!

so im still unsure what your point about the toilets and the cars is?

Dizzyblabla · 09-10-2005 07:03PM

Mossy Monk wrote:

if you cared to look at the thread title. finally to arrive.
that sounds like someone who has been looking forward to it happening, i asked what difference does it make to someone in Cork

I take it you never go abroad on holls? Like I said, even in Birmingham 2 weeks ago, I still went outside to smoke. I think the smoking ban is great, and I didn't like the smoky atmosphere in the pub when I was over in England. I'm sure it won't be the last time I visit England, so yes, they finally brought out the smoking ban.

Gunther_Gloop · 09-10-2005 07:11PM

I'm sure nobody wants to get back into discussing the pros and cons of the smoking ban. I know I hate to even consider the thing.
My point is to shed light on the fact that not everybody in the country is at all content with it as is. There's not much point in me saying anything more.

I don't agree with your narrow definition and application of the term 'fascism' by the way, but that's for another day and forum.

nesf · 09-10-2005 07:17PM

Gunther_Gloop wrote:

My point is to shed light on the fact that not everybody in the country is at all content with it as is. There's not much point in me saying anything more.

I don't think people were saying that everyone was content, just that people had accepted the ban and were obeying it. That there wasn't a mass ignoring of the ban that some people had predicted.

Smoking Ban finally to arrive in England?!

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