Comments on: What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have A Site About Everything and Nothing Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:39:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: kevin bradley http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4380 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:03:57 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4380 if they decide that meat is bad of us or they going yo ban that when will it stop who decide if england should be smoke free the people or the govement if they decide that meat is bad of us or they going yo ban that
when will it stop
who decide if england should be smoke free the people or the govement

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4256 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:10:08 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4256 Rod, Whilst enroute to the Maldives some years ago I spent the first half of the trip listening to adverts for our refuelling stop at Bahrain International Airport-World's Greatest Duty Free (apparently) My abiding memory of that was a room on the second floor next to the toilets for smokers. The room was packed and you literally couldn't see inside for the amount of smoke-I couldn't believe it-instant cancer! How anyone could have set foot in there is beyond me, saying that I went in the toilets and that took some stomaching believe me. LB Rod,
Whilst enroute to the Maldives some years ago I spent the first half of the trip listening to adverts for our refuelling stop at Bahrain International Airport-World’s Greatest Duty Free (apparently) My abiding memory of that was a room on the second floor next to the toilets for smokers. The room was packed and you literally couldn’t see inside for the amount of smoke-I couldn’t believe it-instant cancer! How anyone could have set foot in there is beyond me, saying that I went in the toilets and that took some stomaching believe me.
LB

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4255 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:20:14 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4255 ARB <i>Whatever happened to “Freedom of choice”!!! I think thats long gone</i> If you were to have predicted how things would be in this country today during the Cold War people would have laughed at you. Not even those behind the Iron Curtain were monitored as heavily. CC cameras absolutely everywhere Biometric ID cards on the way Huge databases of you private information on file Satellite tracking of your car Your movements can be tracked via your mobile etc etc Incredible ! ARB
Whatever happened to “Freedom of choice”!!!
I think thats long gone

If you were to have predicted how things would be in this country today during the Cold War people would have laughed at you.
Not even those behind the Iron Curtain were monitored as heavily.

CC cameras absolutely everywhere
Biometric ID cards on the way
Huge databases of you private information on file
Satellite tracking of your car
Your movements can be tracked via your mobile etc etc

Incredible !

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4254 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:17:00 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4254 Jordan, the nanny state ! We are surounded by it and it gets worse. Education is the answer, so long as people know the risks, and if they then accept the consequences, that is all a government should do. If something is wrong then it should be illegal, if not illegal then it should be allowed for consenting adults. Smoking bars with proper ventilation would provide no health risks from residual smoke. If a business wishes to run such a premises and people wish to frequent it then that should be their business. RC Jordan,
the nanny state ! We are surounded by it and it gets worse.
Education is the answer, so long as people know the risks, and if they then accept the consequences, that is all a government should do.

If something is wrong then it should be illegal, if not illegal then it should be allowed for consenting adults.
Smoking bars with proper ventilation would provide no health risks from residual smoke. If a business wishes to run such a premises and people wish to frequent it then that should be their business.

RC

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4253 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:12:28 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4253 Chris, thanks for the comment, much appreciated. I don't believe the a free country gives me the right to harm others though I do believe if like minded people wish to gather in an area and harm themselves then that should be their choice. I do indeed remember smoking in the cinema, I also remember not going anymore when they stopped it. I don't resent it nor do I think I have the right to blow smoke at someone in a cinema, all I know is I stopped going. I see both sides of the argument hence my question as to the effect rather than railing against the ban. I feel sure that it will be accepted and a new generation will not even think about it, much like wearing seat belts in cars. Thank sagain Chris Regardds Rod Chris,
thanks for the comment, much appreciated.
I don’t believe the a free country gives me the right to harm others though I do believe if like minded people wish to gather in an area and harm themselves then that should be their choice.

I do indeed remember smoking in the cinema, I also remember not going anymore when they stopped it. I don’t resent it nor do I think I have the right to blow smoke at someone in a cinema, all I know is I stopped going.
I see both sides of the argument hence my question as to the effect rather than railing against the ban.

I feel sure that it will be accepted and a new generation will not even think about it, much like wearing seat belts in cars.
Thank sagain Chris
Regardds
Rod

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4252 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:35:17 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4252 Hello Jordan, <b>work for nothing</b> I know this one too well, sadly so do most other people I speak to. Bring Back<b>“Freedom of choice”</b>For the People !. I think i may get into Politics. It can not be that difficult can it, well not looking at some of the bright-sparks that stick leaflets through my letter box. I am off for a smoke, well I still can. Hello Jordan,
work for nothing
I know this one too well, sadly so do most other people I speak to.

Bring Back“Freedom of choice”For the People !.
I think i may get into Politics. It can not be that difficult can it, well not looking at some of the bright-sparks that stick leaflets through my letter box.

I am off for a smoke, well I still can.

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Jordan http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4251 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:22:04 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4251 Hi RB You are right on that one! Still it's nice to know that we still pay through the nose for everything and work for nothing, to have our so called extinct "Freedom of Choice" Hi RB

You are right on that one!

Still it’s nice to know that we still pay through the nose for everything and work for nothing, to have our so called extinct “Freedom of Choice”

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4250 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:50:44 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4250 Hello Jordan, <i>Whatever happened to “Freedom of choice”!!!</i> I think thats long gone, along with anything else the hard working people of this country once had. Hello Jordan,
Whatever happened to “Freedom of choice”!!!
I think thats long gone, along with anything else the hard working people of this country once had.

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: Jordan http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4248 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:50:38 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4248 Hi Have the goverment not thought about how much money they are going to lose with people giving up?!! All that extra tax they get out of people, still i guess they will put it on something else! Whatever happened to "Freedom of choice"!!! GRRRRRRRRRRR goverment GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Jordan Hi

Have the goverment not thought about how much money they are going to lose with people giving up?!!
All that extra tax they get out of people, still i guess they will put it on something else!
Whatever happened to “Freedom of choice”!!!
GRRRRRRRRRRR goverment GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Jordan

]]> Comment on What Effect Will the UK Smoking Ban Have ? by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4247 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:43:02 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/what-effect-will-the-uk-smoking-ban-have#comment-4247 No Smoking = No Drinking - These two go together in my book, you can not have one without the other. I wonder what they will ban next ?. No Smoking = No Drinking - These two go together in my book, you can not have one without the other.
I wonder what they will ban next ?.

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