Since March 26, 2006, a smoking ban is in force throughout Scotland in all public places. This includes pubs, bars and clubs. Earlier this week, the results of a health survey of bar staff were announced, and surprise surprise: the health of the staff interviewed and examined had improved vastly. Personally, I have always been reluctant to go into a pub or such like, as you end up coming out smelling like a smoker yourself. I need a full change of clothes, and at the very least a shower. I cannot contemplate sitting in a restaurant eating food in a smoky environment. I have never smoked, as I was violently sick after spending 6 hours in the company of my grandfather (passed on these many years) who smoked cigars non-stop.
I'm with you! I am glad where I live there is no smoking in resturants. I do have to still suffer if I go into a club or bar though. So I don't go. I have been in a couple of states where it was banned in bars and everyone is outside on the curb smoking!It is strange to see.
ReplyDeleteI smoke but I wouldn't dream of smoking in a restaurant and I don't like people smoking if I'm in a car, too small a space to breathe! I can't bare the smell of cigars or pipes. Jeannette xx
ReplyDeleteI agree, I used to hate going to a restaurant and coming home smelling like an old ashtray. I applied for a job in a bookmakers and on the application form there was a warning for non-smokers that the shops were smoking areas. Needless to say I didn`t get the job, nor would I have taken it. My health came first.
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That was one thing my state did RIGHT was to ban smoking in public places. The city I live in did it before it was a statewide law. All of the business owners had a FIT...saying customers would just go to the next town over where they could light up. They assumed everyone smoked!! Turned out nobody suffered...and it ended up a law here in California!
ReplyDeleteSo when I go out of state and see people lighting up in restaurants it makes me sick.....and I'm a casual smoker, too!
Have a good day Guido.
Pam
We have so many bans on the smoking issue here too...I love the ban...saving more lives by not smoking is what it is all about...take care!
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I am allergic to cigar smoke, and don't like cigarrette smoke, either. Across the river from us, in Louisville, KY, they passed an ordinance 9 months ago to make most public places smoke-free. The only exceptions were some bars and restaurants who's sales were made up of a certain percentage from alcohol sales, and they had to install special air filtering equipment. Now, 9 months later, they've passed another ordinance that ALL bars and restaurants are smoke-free, which is fine with me. But they exempted one place -- Churchill Downs. I guess they're afraid the city will lose too much revenue to the off-track-betting places across the river in Indiana if they made Churchill Downs smoke free. The restaurant and bar owners who now have to be smoke free AND wasted money on their new air filtering equipment are livid! I heard some restaurant owners on talk radio last week arguing that non-smokers who have worked for them for years are fine with working in a smoking environment and can leave and work somewhere else if they want; their choice. Lovely, huh? Personally I wouldn't mind if smoking were made illegal, but that's not going to happen. I'm glad they did that study to show the improvement in the health of the restaurant workers since the smoking ban. Significant!
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I am naturally in favor of non-smoking in bars. Smoking used to be so heavy in one where I played pool, that my eyes would sting, and I would feel like I was about to suffocate, and I would only be in there an hour. I thought everyone who worked there or hung out for hours was in great danger from cigarettes, plus they would all usually be smoking very heavily. I did not smoke. My dad as well as my companion both died of lung ailments related to smoking. Now if we could just control our injesting of fattening food! Snack machines everywhere! Gerry
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