Banning smoking in bars

[Justin]

Im so happy about this!!!! The final decision is supposed to be made next week..committee is said to have voted 14 to 1 in favor of banning smoking in bars here in Pittsburgh!

I hate smelling like cigarettes when I get home from going out....especially if its a formal affair cause then you have to get your suit fucking dry cleaned after just one night!

YAY FOR BANNING!

[Schmeltz]

I don't know what I love more about banning smoking in public places: how much more pleasant it is to go to a bar, or how funny it is to watch smokers shivering in the freezing cold while they keep their habit up.

[Lyman Zerga]

dont more people die of passive smoking than active smoking?

well yeah they should ban it here too
sitting in a room with smokers will give me a hour long headache and that for free!

[Justin]

girls that ask for a lighter at the bar = automatic ignore!


I also just "love" it when someone is beside you and holds the cigarette like 2 inches from you with smoke going in your face!!!:mad:

[ggirlballa]

i always kinda hold my breath in when a smoker passes me by then exhale when they're gone i just can't stand inhaling that smoke....

[Bob]

i actually really like second hand smoke. i love the smell, i won't lie.

i don't like how you smell after smoking, though. when it gets on your clothes and skin and it's with you until you bathe, that i hate. but when the smoke's in the air, that i like.

i think i'm gonna get a pipe, i like smoke, but i hate smoking. well i like smoking, but i don't want to smoke.

[Lyman Zerga]

i actually really like second hand smoke. i love the smell, i won't lie.


i like the smell too though im not a fan of the headache it will give me nor of my hypochondriac side that cant stop thinking of cancer, i wont lie.

ive never used a cigarette lighter in my whole fucking life, i wont lie.

[Gareth]

they did that here a while ago, at first people thought they could notice the smell of body odour and farts etc more due to the absence of that smokey smell.

[HEIRESS]

pffffft they did that here about 4.5 years ago

JE JE

[Rock]

Even when I smoked on the regular I wish public places would be smoke free....but unfortunately, Virginia is a tobacco state so its never gonna happen.

chuch.

[befsquire]

i think the bars should be able to choose.

[Kerrbear]

I don't smoke cigarettes, and smoky bars are gross, but I have to admit that a whiff of smoke on a guy just really turns me on. It's like the smell of trouble.

[zorra_chiflada]

yeah, they banned it here a while ago. it makes it sooooo much better.

[Yeti]

I was a pack a day Marlboro Red smoker (I quit over a month ago and will never light up a cig again). I lived in Richmond, Va home to Phillip Morris Corp. Needless to say you could smoke in pubs. Then I moved to South Florida where it was banned. Now, I am in Texas where they allow smoking in bars. I can remember the days of smoking in the workplace. Today it would be wild seeing people at their desks with ashtrays and lighting up.
I must say that I agree with Beth that it should be the right of an establishment to choose. Why not? If you hate smoke just do not go in that particular business. I mean I don't see Jerry Falwell hanging out in the strip club although he probably surfs the internet for his porn fix. Now that I am a person who wants to fill his lungs with clean air and not chemicals I really hate walking through smoke filled areas. I realize it is just something I will have to deal with because I have friends that smoke. Anyway, legislating behavior and taking away rights has never been big on my list. I say bring back the hookers and wisdom weed.

[befsquire]

I don't smoke cigarettes, and smoky bars are gross, but I have to admit that a whiff of smoke on a guy just really turns me on. It's like the smell of trouble.
you should smell dredlocks.

[jabumbo]

although i am sure that i will like this, being that the smell of smoke drives me absolutely insane...i kind of think places like bars should be able to choose if they want this or not.

[kate]

i'd be pissed if they did that here. i like to smoke when i drink. the two go hand in hand for a lot of people. actually at applebee's, there is one section of the bar that you're not allowed to smoke in because it's near the non-smoking section i suppose. it's funny though because you're not allowed to smoke at the tables in that section, but you can go sit at the barstools which are less than 3 feet away. wtf

[Dorothy Wood]

smoking stinks! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNcIgA4H20)


when the full ban goes into effect here, Ima have an easier time quitting. I do think that bars should be able to choose though.

[kate]

mmm this thread is reminding me how much i love smoking. i've been thinking about starting up again. ugh

[Yeti]

i'd be pissed if they did that here. i like to smoke when i drink. the two go hand in hand for a lot of people. actually at applebee's, there is one section of the bar that you're not allowed to smoke in because it's near the non-smoking section i suppose. it's funny though because you're not allowed to smoke at the tables in that section, but you can go sit at the barstools which are less than 3 feet away. wtf

Applebee's food is more dangerous than Newports.

[Dorothy Wood]

smoking stinks! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNcIgA4H20)




YOU GUYS WATCH THAT OKAY!

[Bob]

YOU GUYS WATCH THAT OKAY!

i did, and i haven't smoked a cigarette since

[Dorothy Wood]

i did, and i haven't smoked a cigarette since

good, because YOU ARE PRETTY LITTLE GIRL, but you won't be for much longer! save your fucking life, loser

[kate]

i'm gonna show that video to joe and i bet it'll make him finally quit! he'll be so upset to know he's not gonna be a pretty little girl any longer :(

[Nivvie]

I'm glad they did that here, for the sake of the people who work in bars and pubs. Many owners said they should be able to decide what happens on their premises, but there's not a lot of jobs up here, and people will continue to work in smoky atmospheres because they have to, and at least the ban meant they don't.

[Schmeltz]

It isn't really a cut-and-dried "choice" if it's let up to the industry itself; every bar will continue to allow smoking because if they don't all their smoking customers will stop going there and start going to bars that do allow smoking. Bars that make choices in favour of healthier lifestyles and more pleasant atmospheres will actually lose business.

It sounds like an infringement of rights, but it's nothing more than a promotion of a healthier and more socially conscious lifestyle. And it certainly hasn't hurt the hospitality industry like many restaurant/bar owners up here predicted it would.

[The Notorious LOL]

Minneapolis banned it in 2004, St Paul didnt...so naturally everyone went to St Paul to drink.



several of the bars in the big gay ass mall went out of business after the smoking ban.

[roosta]

Ireland was the first country to do this nationwide..and after a few teething problems its now universally accepted. Even hard core pro-smokers now accept that going out is far more enjoyable, plus they have their gay little meetings in the smoking areas where they talk about us non-smoking nerds.

Seriosuly, going to a bar/club is waaaay more enjoyable now.

[discopants]

I'm rather pissed off about smiking gets all the focus, its all too conveniant. Dont get me wrong, it obviously casues cancer and smells annoys the fuck out of me, but most people complaing I bet are ruining their liver with booze. I can smell a lot of hypocrisy. The simple fact is that more people are affected by alcohol- how many have been beaten up by a guy who's had one too many to smoke and if you go into Casualty on a Friday night, what percebtage of the morons are bunging up the NHS because they've fallen down a set of stairs? I know that smokers fill up their set of places as well and that really pisses me off its just that all the criticism you get in this country is so selective. Phew, had to get that off my chest.

[fucktopgirl]

i think is good, the air is more breathable!

[Nivvie]

I'm rather pissed off about smiking gets all the focus, its all too conveniant. Dont get me wrong, it obviously casues cancer and smells annoys the fuck out of me, but most people complaing I bet are ruining their liver with booze. I can smell a lot of hypocrisy. The simple fact is that more people are affected by alcohol- how many have been beaten up by a guy who's had one too many to smoke and if you go into Casualty on a Friday night, what percebtage of the morons are bunging up the NHS because they've fallen down a set of stairs? I know that smokers fill up their set of places as well and that really pisses me off its just that all the criticism you get in this country is so selective. Phew, had to get that off my chest.


While I agree you have a point (and it's only every drunks that have got violent in casualty or puked on me), smoking costs the way NHS more than alcohol, as you can easily spend £30,000 of tax payers money on a smoker in trouble, but each drunk generally just gets thrown out after a couple of hours, or less. Plus, liver problems are usually quick killers, and it really can be all over for a heavy drinker within a couple of months of getting a weird belly pain, and there really isn't much you can do for them.

The police, on the other hand, if it weren't for drunks and alcohol related violence and driving, etc, would have soooo much more time and money. As would social services. And there be less broken glass, puke and blood on the streets, and teen pregnancies.
And annoying people.

Yes, let's ban alcohol in bars next, have ourselves some Tizer fuelled high jinks.

[na§tee]

haha, tizer. the poor man's soft drink.

[discopants]

Iron Bru surely is the drink of the Gods. Its made from iron girders doncha know? In Scotland, so it must be hard, like the fizzy drink version of Taggart.

[Otis Driftwood]

If people want to non-smoke in my flat I send them to the balcony.
And yes, let the barkeep choose. It is his place after all, don't tell him what to do there. Have non-smoker and smoker bars, no problem.

[Nivvie]

And yes, let the barkeep choose. It is his place after all, don't tell him what to do there. Have non-smoker and smoker bars, no problem.

But the staff! The minimum wage bar maids and men! Smoking is banned in most workplaces, why not theirs? What if there is no other work available and their benefits will be cut unless they take the job? Isn't bad enough that people vomit in their cleavages and break bottles on their heads?

[Otis Driftwood]

Well, if they work in a non-smoking bar, no prob here. Now, if they smoked themselves, what would they do? Go outside and leave the patrons with the Glen Fiddich and all that expensive alcohol. That'd ruin the barkeep and presto, no more bars. Worse than armageddon.