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Smoking in Pubs after hours

Jumboman

I was in a pub (which I wont name unless I'm given permission to) in camden street in dublin last night when it got closing time the barmaid shut the main door into the pub and starting handing out ashtrays then half the pub started smoking.

This was a shock to me I have not been in a pub were people were smoking since the smoking ban was bought in. It made me remember what the horrible smell of tobacco was like which I was forced to inhale.

I woundn't mind so much if this pub had a special room for smokers but this was in the main bar and it was impossible for non smokers to avoid breathing in the smoke.

What I'd like to know does this happen in a lot of pubs were they let people smoke after hours ? or maybe I just went unlucky to have gone to a very dodgy establishment ?

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Ranchu

mauzo! wrote: »

I was 12 when the smoking ban came in and I vaguely remember people smoking in restaurants but never planes or pubs.

Smoking in work was the best.

brummytom

Jumboman wrote: »

How was I breaking the law, simply for ordering a pint ? I assumed everything was above board untill half the pub started smoking.

You assumed everything was above board after they've locked the doors, and presumably drawn the curtains aswell?

Smoking in a pub is standard practice during a lock in.

Jesus, when did people get so precious? One night in a smoky pub won't kill you.

FloatingVoter

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Speaking of lock ins my Dad has a story about a certain candidate in the 1990 Presidential holding court one night in a local bar in my hometown.

The Guards decided to play a prank on their new recruit fresh out of Templemore so they sent him down to the pub to clear them out, every FF'er in a hundred mile radius was in the bar. The Kid walks in and tries to break up the party, cue hysterical laughter and the candidate telling the kid to be on his way or he'd have him transferred to the Aran Islands in the morning.

That would have been Pee Flynn (wouldn't have been able to hurt a fly at that time). The original urban legend has either Charlie Haughey or Brian Lenihan Snr. in the starring role. If there is a grain of truth behind it - it would have been Haughey, the snivelling malicious git.

wow sierra

Magaggie wrote: »

Jeebus. :eek:
Although it was 2004 so yeh, there are adults now who were only kids then.

Christ, that's probably the best example ever of something that makes me feel old...

CHRIST ME TOO

Ah the good old days when you couldn't see from one end of the bar to the other for the smoke and your clothes from the night reeked of smoke in the morning.

Agree with most posters here - if the bar is legally closed and you're there late then you can have no complaints about the smoking. Like the OP I don't like it and it takes away a bit from the enjoyment of an old lock in - but not enough to make me leave

F1ngers

Christ, the next generation of drinkers are sissies, if they are anything like the OP.

OP is a sissie.

Jumboman

F1ngers wrote: »

Christ, the next generation of drinkers are sissies, if they are anything like the OP.

OP is a sissie.

I'm sissie because I don't want to get lung cancer ?

Pixelbastardo

Skip to 1 minute in OP.

Mince Pie

Jumboman wrote: »

I'm sissie because I don't want to get lung cancer ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1pfiJr6kjc

What about liver failure? Jaysis, leave the fecking pub if you have a problem! NO ONE forced you to stay and pollute your precious lungs!

Lux23

I think in that situation, I would put ashtrays in one area of the bar and let the smokers congregate there. Smoking all over the pub should only happen when things get really out of control.

But yea, the OP is seriously sheltered if he doesn't understand the rules of a lock in!

Strumms

Jumboman wrote: »

I'm sissie because I don't want to get lung cancer ?

Like I said old bean... I'm no fan of smoking and I can in some way appreciate where you are coming from.. However in the course of you illegally (yes that's right) necking your last pint in the presence of some people who had just lit up... It won't be the life or death of you... It also won't have been a nice experience but so is the way of the lock in. You may be inexperienced as to the machinations of the curtains being drawn, the lights being turned down, a request for hush and the patter if you will of ashtrays, dusty from retirement and immediately out of place thrust upon counter and table as it goes... But it is what it is and the price in a moment for the thrill of the illicit jar. Now man up will you.

brummytom

Jumboman wrote: »

I'm sissie because I don't want to get lung cancer ?

If you're in lock-ins enough to worry about getting lung cancer, your lungs are the least of your worries.

The Dagda

Jumboman wrote: »

How was I breaking the law, simply for ordering a pint ? I assumed everything was above board untill half the pub started smoking.

Hand back your man badge. It's wasted on you. "Jumboman"?! :rolleyes:

SpaceTime

It's actually a really seriously dodgy legal position.
There would still be people cleaning etc after closing time, and it would still probably be considered a workplace.

Apart from being fined, they could be opening themselves up to being sued by employees too as it's basically a consider health and safety issue i.e. exposure to noxious smoke.

Frynge

All I'll say jumbo man is don't ever sit across from Colin Farrell in a restaurant.

B.A._Baracus

I actually deleted my reply from a few minutes ago... lol. I was nicely putting what a "lock in" is to Jumbo... then I started to read the replies and this thread is mad :pac:

Now I can't make heads or tails where he is coming from. lol. DUDE IT'S A LOCK-IN!!!!! :pac:

HelenV

O.A.P wrote: »

The law bit stopped after they locked the doors and you were happy enough breaking that one ?

Well said.

B.A._Baracus

SpaceTime wrote: »

It's actually a really seriously dodgy legal position.
There would still be people cleaning etc after closing time, and it would still probably be considered a workplace.

Apart from being fined, they could be opening themselves up to being sued by employees too as it's basically a consider health and safety issue i.e. exposure to noxious smoke.

Wish I could post images in After Hours. This really calls for a Professor Farnsworth "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme.

Johro

Well you shoulda called the cops. Rightaway.

Mince Pie

Tell ya what though, it properly warms the cockles to see the good folk of AH come together and agree for a change. So for that OP I doff my hat to you.

Now get out, yer barred!!!!

wazky

Where is the clip of Todd and Rod doing "smokers are jokers, smokers are jokers!!"

I'm disappointed with you people.

_Redzer_

There shouldn't be such things as lock-ins. Everything should be open far, far later like many other non-grannyish European countries.

Still, lock-ins are great craic. You should never pass one up or complain about one. They're special occurrences!

HelenV

Johro wrote: »

Well you shoulda called the cops. Rightaway.

When I was a kid we had a name for people like that - tell tale tattles ...

And I'm an ex-smoker but for crying out loud - if you don't like the smoke - get out of the pub

Filmer Paradise

OP, speaking as an ex-smoker myself..........

This country needs more people like you!

To emigrate!

front to_the_back 88

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Wish I could post images in After Hours. This really calls for a Professor Farnsworth "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYueb_rJdNQ

there ya go, just dont click play

omen80

Talk about a first world problem!
If this is the first time you've seen smoke in a pub since the ban came in then you're not doing too bad.

Johro

HelenV wrote: »

When I was a kid we had a name for people like that - tell tale tattles ...

And I'm an ex-smoker but for crying out loud - if you don't like the smoke - get out of the pub

I didn't think I had to explain it was a joke.

Muise...

Well OP, as a Minister once said to a Garda interrupting a lock-in, "do you want a pint, or a transfer to the Aran Islands?"

JonEBGud

People who smoke don't do it on purpose to piss non smokers off.
I was born in the fifties.
Going to a cinema,everyone on the screen was smoking and a lot of the folks watching were smoking too,even going to a persons house was O.K.
to light up a cigarette.
Times have changed.
I was in hospital in 1976 and had an ashtray on my bedside locker.
Also on the buses them days you could smoke too.
Restaurants also had smoking or non smoking.
So to me smoking in pubs after hours if you are a non smoker is a
non issue.
Just go home.

[Deleted User]

Just get up and leave at closing time the next time if it bothers you that much.

A barman being sound and letting you stay for drinks after closing and you complain about smoking?

Nerd

Plazaman

I was in the same situation as the OP once.

I was forced to watch porn. I had the Angelus on the telly then all of a sudden the people beside me popped in a porn DVD (Dr Fist was the name of it I believe) and pressed play.

I was morto at being violated like that and was trying to leave except I had to show them how to work the remote control and I was in charge of cooking the pizzas as my oven is tricky enough to operate.