I did and that's why I went for the stronger stuff. I think you missed my names in the reply. I'm sorry I did, but as a pipe smoker I have no knowledge at all about cigarette "tobacco", if that's what it aspires to be. Come to me oh Condors, Borkum Riffs, Balkan Sobranies, Dunhill Nightcaps of the world! :p
oooerrr. You've just reminded me of Sobranie Cocktails & Black Russians. I feel sick just thinking about them. All that money to buy, absolutely foul... but look! They're a funny colour. :mellow: The test of a real smoker: Still available, still make little flashing lights appear in front of the eyes.... The good old days:
It was always going to. Up here pubs outside the major cities have never been more than half full since the ban came in, and now the nicotine nazis are even trying to have smoking outside pubs banned. Some of us warned the ban was only the opening salvo in a never-ending war.
Went on a pub crawl around Bath yesterday. it tookme awhile to realize what was different. I didn't stink like an ash tray, it was great. When I got home I didn't need a shower or put my clothes in the wash because thay stank of fags as in the old days. I know the ban started ages ago but I don't get out much nowadays. Smokers at work are forced to use the old bike shed . Ha , ha!!! I don't care if any of you smokers feel agreived by this law but I've been waiting for it for over 20 years. I love the ban, smokers get stuffed! Go and smoke your vile fags away from me.
When I got home I didn't need a shower or put my clothes in the wash because ...you are a girlish lightweight and a thimble of Malibu hardly counts as a pub-crawl?
...you are a girlish lightweight and a thimble of Malibu hardly counts as a pub-crawl? That's a much politer response than the one I was going to post.
...you are a girlish lightweight and a thimble of Malibu hardly counts as a pub-crawl? Yeah but I bet I'd spend less money than you getting pissed.
Oi! I take umbrage at Owen being referred to as 'girlish'! We are not claiming Mr D. I knoe many a fine country lass who could drink you under the table my boy. As to the ban, i love it. I can now wholeheartedly accept any invitations from friends for anight out as I know i am not going to have a full on hayfever attack in whatever dive they wish to drink in that night. heaven. I have no trouble with smokers outside, it is my choice if i join them or not. Besides some of the pubs round here have created a better outside area than indoors. And I can always sit up wind of the druggies.
We have a smoking hut at work, but in order to make it 'compliant' with the law, they've taken all the windows out. So now the winds howls through as it acts as a wind tunnel. Plus the rain doesn't help (but atleast it's got a roof). What I'm saying is that in pubs and clubs, fair enough. But to take the windows out of a smoking hut is taking things in my opinion, a little bit too far. If people don't want to stand in there on their breaks, they don't have to. We have a nice canteen with vending machines e.t.c They took the windows out so that it's not an 'enclosed space'. But my argument is that unlike pubs/clubs, the only people in there are smokers. Madness.
When I got home I didn't need a shower or put my clothes in the wash because thay stank of fags as in the old days. Surely an overreaction reminiscent of paranoia?:wow: I do that after I've mucked the horses out....
Not at all. For those of us who do not smoke, and have a mild to serious reaction to the stench, soon as we get in we change and put our clothes in the washer to get rid of any lingering stink (and my god it can stink for weeks afterwards otherwise). That lingering scent of cigarette smoke can have precisely the same effect as the initial exposure. I have had a reaction to 6 week old cigarette smoke caught in a jumper after I forgot to wash it. Believe me Gordy, for some of us it is an under reaction
I don't actually smoke either, Kit. I used to have a reaction to Elastoplast when I was a kid, but my parents didn't campaign to have the stuff banned. I now feel the same way about the "perfume" Poison, but wouldn't dream of reacting to the smell the same way some non-smokers do to tobacco. I don't do the "my way or else" stuff.
Neither do I, but when it is a highly addictive drug then i take an interest. And yes i have the same reaction to Poison. And the liberal amounts of Lynx my brothers seem to use.
I grew up with a smoker and had asthma, treated by medication, until I went to college and wasn't around it anymore and I quit myself. I started smoking after the onset of the disease and then realized one night what a mistake I was making, and quit cold turkey and haven't smoked since. I haven't taken anything to treat the problem since 1988 (four years later) and have only had attacks since when I have been in the presence of cigarette smoke. Yes, I am a firefighter. I wear SCBA anytime I am around, or think I will be around, smoke. Interestingly enough, my father quit smoking two years after I started college and one year before I did.
