Capital Summertime Ball 2024

[Jono]

What do you think, should it be banned?

[DC]

I am sick of coming back from the pub and haing my clothes smell. But i dont thin the extraction works well in my local. So when you look at the bar and you see the smoke, it's like a beam of it. And it's frightening that you breathe that in.

They should build pubs like they did years ago with the lounge, bar and the smoke room.

[Ema]

Yeah i hate it,alot of my mates smoke and when ive been hanging around with them i come back home with my clothes stinking of it,and my mum starts to suspect i smoke.

[michaelRJ]

It should be banned, i can't stand smoking in public places, i can't stand smoking.

[Serin]

Do people think a public smoking ban will encourage smokers to stop?

If exhaust pipes on cars are allowed to damage our health surely smokers can too? Should we be making efforts to introduce electric cars/environmentally-friendly cars that won't damage our health or the health of the environment?

Do we have a right to stop people entering public places because they smoke? Is this not discrimination?

I don't smoke. I don't like it. But I think the government should be concentrating elsewhere on preventing damage to our health before we get to smokers.

[Jono]

I went to my mum's 50th birthday party and I was told I had to get a new outfit for it, so I did and it ended up stinking of cigarette smoke from the function room. Smokers can smoke all they like, that's fine by me, it's their problem. But when it comes to the pub, I don't want to have to be breathing the smoke in (I have an allergy which can be set off by stuff like smoke amongst lots of other things) and I'd like to think we've moved on from the 1930's fashion.

[DC]

I don't smoke. I don't like it. But I think the government should be concentrating elsewhere on preventing damage to our health before we get to smokers.

Go in the pub by me and say that.

Electric cars get you down the street and stop. But there is a new 4x4 that has an electric motor and and engine. The Engine for high speeds and the electric motor for city driving.

[matt_32510]

Most bars in Brighton have a no smoking area, so why don't they just stick with that half the pub non-smoking the other half smoking, pleases everyone then.

[Ema]

yeah it doesnt help us asmatics my coughing go's mental and its set off by people smoking.although im not asmatic anymore it still does affect me.

[matt_32510]

thats why you split the bar into 2 sections ;-)

[Ema]

thats why you split the bar into 2 sections ;-)

Yeah,although in restaurents not all of it is non smoking although some restaurents are making it all non smoking some are still letting smokers in.

[matt_32510]

Now i agree with banning smoking in restraunts as that is sisgusting having smoke hovering around your food.

[Ema]

yeah i cant stand it i wouldnt be able to eat around smokers.

[Serin]

If the bill is passed, we still have to wait until summer 2007 before the ban comes into effect and the ban, as I understand, isn't a full ban insofar as smoking is prohibited in every public arena but is banned only in pubs where food is served, workplaces, cafes and restaurants so there will still be areas where smokers are legally allowed to smoke.

[Jono]

You'd have thought they'd have done it before the 24 hour law came into place.

[callum]

o.k here comes my rant....... in mny local the landlord has a two year old daughter and a wife that is littereally going to give birth tomorrow! ban it to save them! i also come home in an awful smell of smoke! but i don't smoke so it effects me by giving me a saw throat. any way it will give the locals something to do having to walk across the road to the bus shelter!

[DC]

If the bill is passed, we still have to wait until summer 2007.

I'll be dead by then if that pub keeps that up.

[Viv]

Yes, it should be banned. Smoking is one of the most disgusting, money-wasting activities on earth.... love to all on website. !!!! Have nice weekend.

[John]

I wonder how this would work in halifax. As some might know my 2nd job is in a bar (Jaks to precise) and at least 75% of the people who drink in there also smoke. After 5hrs of working in there my clothes, hair, hands and things all stink of second hand smoke. If this is all going onto, and lingering, on my clothes, the same must be happening to my lungs. I'm not a smoker but for the sake of extra cash i put myself at risk of illness that smokers get, lung problems, heart problems etc etc. The ban would benefit the workers of bars and clubs and pubs who almost every night breathe the smoke in providing a service to people. So thats why i support it. BUT i cant see it working well. Drugs are illegal so what stops people from dealing them in clubs. Nothing. People still deal drugs in clubs as much as they ever have done. Smokers will find ways around this. Every law as a loop hole and it wont be long before smokers find the loop hole in this law

[Jono]

Okay, let's turn the tables... who has smoked on here? And are you addicted?

[Mr_Quincy]

i smoke when i got out sometimes. i dont think it should be banned

[Ema]

no i havent and no im not addicted.

[John]

But if its your choice to smoke and polute your body why inflict it on others? I've just got home from the Colliseum reeking of smoke. I'd LOVE a day when i can come home and smell smoke free

[Yamsy]

As a smoker myself, I don't think it should be totaly banned but at the same time I do think that non smokers shouldn't have to breathe our smoke...So I think that seperate bars in all pubs is the way forward.

[Viv]

Yes. Without question