Where did people tap their ash before the smoking ban?

jimgoose · 16-04-2015 01:55PM

Egginacup wrote: »

The lounge-girl from the pub used to come round and just walk past the queue, in behind the counter and plop a full Guinness beside him, no words spoken, and then just scurry off out again. Respect!

Ah, an Ancient Master! :pac:

hardCopy · 16-04-2015 02:36PM

Egginacup wrote: »

Utter myth.

When I used to go to the pub during the smoking years and someone stank of B.O. or farted, you could damn well smell it.

When the smoking ban came in and I went to the pub and it was crowded I couldn't smell, all of a sudden, a thousand farts, feet and armpits.

Cigarette smoke doesn't make these smells somehow disappear or mask them in anyway.

I don't hear any cock and bull stories of when the ban came in somehow women were passing out from the onslaught of aftershave fumes or men's eyes were watering from the overwhelming aroma of ladies' perfume.

Load of bollocks

Not a myth.

I worked in a pub when the ban came in the difference in smell was massive.

Pretty much the same stink you always got first thing on a Sunday morning but most punters never had to experience it before the ban.

Boom_Bap · 16-04-2015 02:39PM

I used to work in a newsagents and every night I had to clean the ash out of the newspaper area that was in front of the till and along where people queued. They just used it (the area with most fire loving paper) as the ash tray and to throw thier butts in.

KungPao · 16-04-2015 02:42PM

I remember working in a big retailer back in the early '00s and before the ban we had to smoke in the canteen...never outside near the doors! Then the opposite was true.

I remember choosing to dine in BK rather than MCD's, as they had a smoking area for a good while after MCD's banned it.

I was never a dirty smoker though, always looked for a tray. I didn't just drop ash and butts everywhere.

I don't smoke any more, but I have fond memories of supping a pint and puffing away in a pub. Good times, but so happy to be off the fags.

wmpdd3 · 16-04-2015 02:45PM

Our office moved into an old civil service office in the late 1990s. We had to clear out the offices before the office fit out arrived. There were 30 desks and a reception, we stock piled 30 phones ready for collection and 50 ash trays. I asked my boss what did he want me to do with them, he said just wash and keep the Waterford Crystal ones and bin the others.

Even then it seemed really weird.

wmpdd3 · 16-04-2015 02:46PM

hardCopy wrote: »

Not a myth.

I worked in a pub when the ban came in the difference in smell was massive.

Pretty much the same stink you always got first thing on a Sunday morning but most punters never had to experience it before the ban.

Massive whiff of Jayes Fluid in the pubs as I remember.

ThisRegard · 16-04-2015 03:00PM

KungPao wrote: »

I remember working in a big retailer back in the early '00s and before the ban we had to smoke in the canteen...never outside near the doors! Then the opposite was true.

Specific to that place though. From the early 90s to the smoking ban I never once worked in a place that allowed smoking on the premises, no matter where it was.

bjork · 16-04-2015 03:03PM

I remember smoking on an airplane with a few beers. They're used to be little ashtrays built in to the arm of the seat, just like at the cinema. They have new seats not though, but they still have the little light.

Simon2015 · 16-04-2015 04:38PM

There are still some pubs that let people smoke after hours.

I don't know how they are not closed down.

16-04-2015 04:47PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

There are still some pubs that let people smoke after hours.

I don't know how they are not closed down.

A lot of the time the Gardaí are among the customers frequenting these places.

bjork · 16-04-2015 04:48PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

There are still some pubs that let people smoke after hours.

I don't know how they are not closed down.

The narks haven't found them yet...

2smiggy · 16-04-2015 04:51PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

There are still some pubs that let people smoke after hours.

I don't know how they are not closed down.

for opening after hours , or for smoking in the pub after hours ?

eviltwin · 16-04-2015 04:52PM

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Now, I'm quite naive on this subject, as I would've only been 7 or 8 when the ban was introduced, and never really took any notice. Obviously, in a bar or restaurant, they simply would have tapped it in an ash tray. But what about the likes of shops, where someone isn't stationary? Were people generally allowed smoke in them? Were there ash trays all over the place? Did people simply tap their ash on the floor? I'm genuinely curious about this.

Thanks OP, now I feel really really old

:(

Simon2015 · 16-04-2015 04:53PM

2smiggy wrote: »

for opening after hours , or for smoking in the pub after hours ?

They let people smoke inside the pub once they shut the doors at around midnight.

ScumLord · 16-04-2015 04:53PM

Short people with hoodies made for a convenient mobile ashtray.

Simon2015 · 16-04-2015 04:54PM

bjork wrote: »

The narks haven't found them yet...

When I was in a pub after hours and people beside me started smoking I just walked out.

I could of rated on the pub owner but I'm not the sort of person that would rat on someone.

denhaagenite · 16-04-2015 04:59PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

When I was in a pub after hours and people beside me started smoking I just walked out.

I could of rated on the pub owner but I'm not the sort of person that would rat on someone.

I'm so relieved.

BrokenArrows · 16-04-2015 05:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Does anyone remember the biggest side-effect of the smoking ban in pubs and clubs?

You could actually smell the places, once the smell of smoke was gone. And they stank to high heavens. The smell of sweat, of the toilets, of farts, and of incredibly bad B.O. The first few weeks were horrible.

Worked in a night club at the time. All the carpets had to be ripped up and wooden floors put down.
The smell was unreal.

artanevilla · 16-04-2015 05:12PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

They let people smoke inside the pub once they shut the doors at around midnight.

Well it would look a bit suspicious a load of people hanging around smoking outside a closed pub.

Turtyturd · 16-04-2015 05:23PM

Simon2015 wrote: »

There are still some pubs that let people smoke after hours.

I don't know how they are not closed down.

The Oasis in Cabra used to allow it for a while after the ban. I think the customers stopped snorting coke and rolling joints in plain view as a compromise. Dunno what it's like these days.

somesoldiers · 16-04-2015 05:23PM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Or the fcukwits who use e-cigs on buses or GP's waiting rooms.

Some fool that works in my wife's office used to go round with sucking an e-fag because they hadn't got a policy on it, When they got one he would walk about with it anyway just not sucking on it. Sad that they have to make policies for common sense.

I constantly see people smoking walking around Connolly Station despite the numerous announcements including one dude in an Irish Rail uniform yesterday, unfortunately I was on a train and couldn't get close enough to snap a picture. Would have loved to tweet them that

somesoldiers · 16-04-2015 05:24PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

The Oasis in Cabra used to allow it for a while after the ban. I think the customers stopped snorting coke and rolling joints in plain view as a compromise. Dunno what it's like these days.

I was in a Cabra pub last year with a mate that lives up that way and they had ashtrays everywhere, it was like the smoking ban never happened....and bullet holes mind

thesandeman · 16-04-2015 05:28PM

artanevilla wrote: »

Well it would look a bit suspicious a load of people hanging around smoking outside a closed pub.

That happened at a pub out in the sticks in Galway. The landlady used to stay open half the night but strictly enforced the smoking ban. The Guards passed up one night and found about thirty people standing outside in the rain smoking.

Egginacup · 16-04-2015 05:57PM

hardCopy wrote: »

Not a myth.

I worked in a pub when the ban came in the difference in smell was massive.

Pretty much the same stink you always got first thing on a Sunday morning but most punters never had to experience it before the ban.

So have the stinking bastards from back then just all of a sudden washed their pits, feet, and stopped farting because I don't experience these foul odours from any pub now.

2Bints1Joe · 16-04-2015 05:58PM

Tapping the Leslie so to speak

steamengine · 16-04-2015 06:17PM

The best of the whole lot was the top of a double decker bus on a cold wet day with all the windows shut and fogged up. Nearly everybody smoked on the upper deck and you could hardly see down the length of the bus, the smoke was so thick. The stink of tobacco smoke clung to your clothes afterwards.

In those days you were'nt a proper smoker unless at least three of your fingers were stained brown from the nicotine.

volchitsa · 16-04-2015 06:25PM

steamengine wrote: »

In those days you were'nt a proper smoker unless at least three of your fingers were stained brown from the nicotine.

Now there's something you just don't see anymore, do you? I forgotten that. When I was a kid, pretty much all the adult males I knew had nicotine-stained fingers. It seemed to be considered perfectly normal, part of being an adult almost. My uncle's red beard (he had brown hair) provoked far more reaction and discussion.

Buona Fortuna · 16-04-2015 06:25PM

Back in the day - if you went to see the Doc he smoked during the exam. If you were old enough (or nearly) he'd offer you one.

Lovely fella. He had a bit of a pot belly so he'd never talk about weight or anything like that, mostly he'd be concerned about how my 21 y/o aunt who lived with us was.

It did seem a simpler time back then. Unhealthy,yes. We all knew the dirty old basket just wanted to shag my aunt but ....

Halcyon days

Lisha · 16-04-2015 06:34PM

Civilised People, who did but want to litter, used to tap the fag ashes into their Palm and then rub the ash onto their trouser leg.

16-04-2015 06:35PM

Egginacup wrote: »

So have the stinking bastards from back then just all of a sudden washed their pits, feet, and stopped farting because I don't experience these foul odours from any pub now.

As mentioned already, a lot of pubs would have torn up their carpets, done a whole retrofit, and improved on a lot of other factors.

Where did people tap their ash before the smoking ban?

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