5 years on: do you miss smoking in pubs?

[Lamp]

Well, almost 5 years. Summer 2007

 

[old.Tohtori]

During the winter, i miss the combination of drink&smoke. During summer, not so much as you can take your drinksy outside.

Just the smoking? Not that bothered.

 

[soze]

As a no smoker no. As a single guy I hate having to follow a girl outside into smoke hell or risk losing her though

 

[old.Tohtori]

As a no smoker no. As a single guy I hate having to follow a girl outside into smoke hell or risk losing her though

Pro-tip; if the girl is interested, then going out for a smoke, or you going out for a smoke won't "lose" her

 

[Lamp]

unless she doesn't like smokers ofc...

 

[soze]

Pro-tip; if the girl is interested, then going out for a smoke, or you going out for a smoke won't "lose" her

I am not taking any chances!

More than once I have been chatting to a girl and lost her to her friends while she is out side smoking lol

 

[Raven]

No and I am a smoker.

It's quite nice to sit in the pub with nice clean air. We have lock ins sometimes when the ashtrays come out and everyone lights up. It's amazing how nasty it gets.

 

[old.user4556]

It's been superb, I'm surprised it was every allowed.

 

[Ch3tan]

Not just pubs, work places, restaurants, all much better without smoking inside.

 

[Billargh]

Thank fuck, I definitely wouldn't have kept up with pub work had the ban not been introduced. Social reasons, thank fuck again, it smells like shit.

 

[TdC]

as a former smoker I can only say I'm uber pleased, and my smoking friends can go fuck themselves. still, for some strange reason it seems that every single woman everywhere smokes (oh see what I did there) and I'm to old, cynical and jaded to follow them outside just to be social unless they bribe me with beer. and then maybe. maybe.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I miss no smoking in clubs as it basically made smoking a spliff at a rave impossible. But then I'm an old bastard and rarely do the latter any more

 

[Access Denied]

It's certainly made the atmosphere in pubs more breathable. However, as a smoker I will avoid any pub that doesn't have some sort of shelter outside. A lot of pubs complained that the smoking ban forced away trade, I'm not certain it forced away trade so much as stopped the smoke making people so thirsty.

 

[Raven]

It depends on the pub I suppose. It hasn't affected my local. The nearest pub is in the next village, 1 mile or so. the people in the nearest village all sleep with their sisters and such and the pub is terrible. The next nearest pub to that is about 4 miles give or take and who wants to walk 4 miles for a pint!?!

 

[old.user4556]

The down side is that you smell a lot more in the way of farts and bad BO.

 

[Wij]

Smoking in pubs was nice. Fuck everyone

 

[fettoken]

I agree with Wij. It was nice, the certain atmosphere created by the clouds of smoke covering the place.

 

[TdC]

The down side is that you smell a lot more in the way of farts and bad BO.

meh, imo you smelled that just as badly before the ban :-p

 

[Olgaline]

Holy than thou' ex-smoker = No

 

[Punishment]

Nope i always preferred smoking outside tbh

 

[Moriath]

only bad thing for smokers (as i was once) is that now they deem cars as a place of work if you hire / rent / company car them and supposed to be no smoking .. was so boring drving up the motorway without a cig tbh

 

[TdC]

ugh! even when I still smoked, in cars was deffo a no-no

 

[Mabs]

i dont spend a lot of time in pubs, but it was still , as i said at the time, fucking pathetic

but then people are so rude and ignorant nowadays they need it. i dont smoke much any more, just occasionally. but then when i was a smoker, i wouldnt smoke next to someone eating in a pub, or i would ask them first. And same in a bar, you dont smoke at the bar, and if the pub is packed and people said "oh do you mind not smoking on the table next to us" was yea np
but it got forced onto us cos people aint got no fucking manners any more

So yea i miss the choice , and i miss the smell, ie not smelling of piss and dead people aka "aroma de wetherspoons" but im sure some people are happy
cant wait till they ban alcohol from pubs due to "health concerns"

 

[old.Tohtori]

I can't agree with that Mabs, they would've forced it onto us even with manners like the Master of Manners from Manchester.

Thing about it was though, it was a choice to go into pubs knowing that there's smoke, but people wanted that stuff out because they didn't like it and as such, it was indeed a forced issue and in a certain amount, removal of freedom.

I'm very careful about my smoking, keeping distance, try to hide it from kids if they are around outside/(etc all the malarky of a decent person), but that didn't matter when people want to use "health issues" as a crowbar to make their world more like THEIR world.

EDIT: Forgot to add that no, i don't mind it, but as said before, i do miss it

In other words; whatever makes the sissyboys happy

 

[Laddey]

Not 1 bit. I eat out alot and i don't miss the smell.

Smoking outside the clubs is a social gathering. Even people who dont smoke come to the smoking areas

 

[Talivar]

They had to remove it 100%, the cost to the NHS and other Healthcares for smokers has far far exceeded what is made in tax off cigerretes, so they had to change their stance and go anti-smoking, and once they did that they had to then ban this now evil stuff from their public places ( which also helps reduce cost of passive smokers on NHS). And to answer the question yes it has made pubs much much better cus now i only risk dieing from the alchohol and not smoke AND alchohol

 

[old.Tohtori]

Yeah, the amount of public place passivesmoke deaths, or smoking and driving issues, or kicking someones teeth in because you had one too many smokes is really bad.

 

[Ch3tan]

I still laugh at the "they forced it on us" arguments, clearly the majority don't miss it one bit.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I still laugh at the "they forced it on us" arguments, clearly the majority don't miss it one bit.

there's a difference in minding and missing.

 

[Talivar]

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/13/is-secondhand-smoke-really-that-risky/