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how would beckyboo feel suddenly becoming a criminal for having a smoke? pretty much how i feel having my smoke i would imagine.
Thats a bit of a strange attitude to take, seeing as most of the population don't smoke anyway. Maybe it should be the other way round, if you really want to smoke then don't go in, that simple.
Roughly half the people who smoke for most of their life, will die from it, they know it but they can't give it up. Many thousands of people who don't smoke will develope illnesess and/or die because of it.
I personally think that if the government don't ban it, then all the people who have ever had to work or breathe in a smokey atmosphere should sue those who smoke and those who don't provide proper ventilation damages and get them charged with assault. I'm talking about the bastards who sit in the no smoking areas, the tossers who breathe out at you or over the bar.
I think I stand to make a tidy profit from them as well.
Smoking smells and tastes vile, but I remain skeptical of the dangers of "passive smoking".
In a bar well thats different for me and I would think many smokers. When I socialise and have a few drinks then I smoke, if a bar was no smoking and it was fully enforced then i would not visit that pub. Now how many other smokers would follow suit ? If they cant smoke they wont drink there which in effect will lose them trade.
As ive said previously, in new York since the smoking ban was introduced bars have reported takings down up to 50% during peak times, meaning that the bar staff no longer have jobs and that bars are closing.
There arent that many non-smokers who refuse to set foot in bars because of the smoking issue. certainly not as many as there are smokers.
You couldn't take your buisness anywhere else but an off licence.
And as for making smoking an illegal, underground activity, I disagree. Every smoker I have ever spoken to has said they would quit if they were able, why would they risk a fine or imprisonment, for something that they agree tastes disgusting, that they know they will probably die from if it is made illegal?
I challenge anyone to find someone who loves smoking so much that they would goto such lengths to have a smoke.
But surely if smoking is as addictive as everyone claims, then people will HAVE to turn to the black market because they are addicted, and cannot do without the cigarattes?
He he he he
- Every smoker wants to quit, show me a smoker who deosn't want to stop. Show me a smoker who has never woken up and said 'jesus, my mouth tastes like shit...I really will give up' but in most cases they just don't. I couldn't...for years i thought I wanted to...but did I really want to? Perhaps I thought I would be losing out on something by not smoking. Somehow the clever trap got me. And every time I made an attampt some 'friend' of mine would say 'go on, have one...one won't hurt' as they waggled a fag in front of my face...and why...because they were scared, scared that I might be successful, they couldn't let me be successful because then they would look unsuccessful because deep down they reall wanted to give up too, except they would bang on about their freedom and choice and their right to make up their own mind to smoke, to be allowed to keep smoking, even though they knew it was killing them, even though they kept waking up and thinking 'jesus, my mouth tastes like shit...I really will give up this time' then they would say 'yeah, but I only smoke a few a day, and infact I only smoke when i'm out with my mates so i'm not really a smoker, I could give up if I wanted to but I like the taste, I'd miss the fag with my pint, I'm only harming myself, and anyway I smoke so little I'm not really even harming myself'....etc etc etc
smoking is a trick...its piss easy to give up, it has nothing to do with willpower, or addiction....only fear stops people from giving up!!
honestly - believe me - its true!!
Byny that bullshit. If smoking was that easy to quit do you think i would sit here and waste my money ? Would I have candles burning in my house day and night to get rid of that stale smoke smell ?
Smoking is not easy to stop and I applaud anyone who can, they deserve a pat on the back. But as I say just because you found it easy to stop dont try to make everyone think we will all find it that easy.
On that point I completely agree with you. Seperate, strongly enforced smoking and non-smoking areas are the answer. But I also think it important to ban people from smoking at a cafe, resteraunt or bar if they are sitting at an outside table at certain times. Between 7am and 7pm smoking should be banned in this respect to protect young children from passive smoking.
sorry but i'm back in the seventies ...complaigning and campaigningg against the powers that be havin g made cannabis illegal! how much control are we going to have to have over each other in our ever more fearful society.
maybe we can be allowed to smoke anything we like in our own homes ...and that way we might slowly fade from society with our beards and hopelesness s. discarded to a bygone age ...but no ...make us all into scriminalsd.
How do you know how id react ?
Ive tried to stop smoking and couldn't. Ive tried patches and they irritated me and I was riving at the spot where the patch was, my arm bright red and went all spotty.
If smoking was that easy then I would stop now, but smoking is not that easy to stop when you have smoked as long as i have.
the next step was looking in the local phone box AND finding two fag ends to re rtoll ....that is nicotine addiction.
how come i beat heroin addiction but cannot for the life of me beat nicotine?
Good stuff like Arsenic, Formaldehyde, etc...
Got a light?
Ahhhhhh so much better, thanks!
Its good to see that someone has listened to Allen Carr's advice.
His book isnt bullshit Becky, you really ought to read it.
You mean like the ban on brown stops people shooting up?
do these people know anything about the real world? there is already a thriving black market in tobacco cos of our overpriced poison. every villain and smuggler in the land must be rubbing their hands with glee! the government isn't there to protect us from every risk in life. it would seem the government are often there to make sure organised crime and a few plucky individuals always have the most lucrative earners going well sown up!
agree with this control over smokers and you are supporting crime and terrorism ...simple as that.
Same goes for the cliff. Although obviously I would make some effort to try and talk he/she out of it.
But if they were just doing it because they werent looking where they were going then I'd stop them and slap them about the face a bit for good measure.
I do think making more places non-smoking would help and more effort put into helping people come off.
Never heard of him
Whowhere if they were banned then I would get them from somewhere. If I got caught Id have to face the consequnses just like millions of other people.
surely addiction is a medical problem and not a criminal one?
Ah I know what we are getting at here
Yes, its a medical problem not criminal. However if I do something illegal then I have to face the consequenses if im caught.