Good To See The Taffs Showing The Way...

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-35756856
My only criticism is that it appears to be voluntary and as we know that smokers are very selfish people it will get ignored. I applaud the intent though.

[retrocop]

Wot no frying up my laver bread on an open fire anymore? :-(

[Togo]

//Thirty-five pupils from Broad Haven Primary School will launch the 12-month trial, to highlight children taking up smoking in Wales.//

I thought for a second that the kids were being taken to the beach for a ciggy.

By the way fags are banned on Brighton beach.

[RATTER15]

retrocop, "laver bread" I think I'm right in saying that it is only available and eaten in South Wales and North Devon. I tried it a couple of times when I lived in North Devon, not a great lover though.


"By the way fags are banned on Brighton beach." That's not nice Togo!!

[ToraToraTora]

think it was dropped at Brighton:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35112169

[retrocop]

Togo
Surely not fags! Do you mean cigarettes?

[mikey4444]

Its a very small beach. But quite how this can be made compulsory, without some Council official standing on duty on the beach all day long is not clear.

But perhaps smoking will be reduced with this measure, so perhaps its worth a try.

[Buenchico]

The first non-smoking beach in the UK was in Bournemouth in 1994. (There are numerous references to it on the internet, including here: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-smokers-last-gasp-1538510.html ).

Oddly though, nobody seems to have told the current Bournemouth councillors, who were still debating whether to introduce one last year!
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/13508210.Should_there_be_a_non_smoking_area_on_Bournemouth_beach_/

[Baldric]

Togo, Lol!

(But I thought they said on BBC B'fast this morning that the Brighton Beach smoking ban failed to get voted in.)

[hc4361]

I'd be more impressed if the ban applied the neighbouring, larger, busier beach that is Broad Haven

[Togo]

Does it mean that no barbeques are allowed? They make a lot of smoke.

[Svejk]

ToraToraTora
/// as we know that smokers are very selfish people ///

The irony. Anything Tora doesn't like must be banned. No doubt if something Tora enjoyed was banned, he'd be 'spitting feathers' about big brother/nanny government.

[webbo3]

According to this its a trial and its not compulsory, so its not a ban then.

http://home.bt.com/news/news-extra/beach-becomes-first-in-wales-to-ban-smoking-but-anyone-who-breaks-it-wont-be-fined-11364045097230


From the article.

The use of e-cigarettes is also forbidden as part of a year-long smoking ban at Little Haven in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, also thought to be the first of its kind in the UK.

But there’s one catch to the trial, which came into effect on Wednesday – National No Smoking Day: It’s only voluntary and anyone who breaks it can’t be fined.

Because of this, several smokers have labelled it “stupid” and “pointless”.


Dave.

[ToraToraTora]

Svejk, It was necessary to legislate to stop smokers gassing their own children, to me that is a clear indication of selfishness.

[hc4361]

SOME smokers, TTT. I know smokers who never let their children even see them smoking

[Togo]

I'm one hc. Never smoked in a car never smoked in the house. Still don't. Used to smoke in the pub not now, funny enough it isn't packed with non smokers though. Where are they? By the way my son took up smoking and is currently trying to quit, my daughter didn't, became a doctor and never lectures us. Where will the non smokers be when they have banned smoking outside? Why, sat at their keyboards, looking for another 'cause'.

[Togo]

TTT the parents gassing their own children are the same ones who stuff them with burgers, crisps, chips, and cola.

[hc4361]

Togo, SOME non-smokers. :)

I went to the pub as a smoker, I went to the pub when I stopped smoking in 94 and I still go to the pub now smoking is banned. And much nicer it is now, too

[Togo]

Lol hc. Don't be smug though. I gave up for 10 years. Still, I haven't been knocked down by a bus.

[hc4361]

Nor me, Togo. But I do admit to doing a little dance and totting up my saving every budget day. If I were still smoking I would be spending over £3000 a year! That's scary, especially as my wife stopped smoking at the same time - a joint saving of over £6k a year.

*happy dance*

[hc4361]

I calculated that wrong, we both smoked 40 B&H a day. At today's prices that is over £32 a day, £12k a year. Flabbergasted