Smoking in Corrie

[horseshoes]

Just something we were wondering about.... given that Corrie is a "set" and that set is a workplace, how do they get round the smoking laws especially as so much of it goes on in the programme?

[4getmenot]

they use 'fake' fags.

[horseshoes]

Ooh do yo think so 4getmenot ? They look pretty real to me.

[dotty.]

they smoke all the time on George Gently and it looks very real, they even smoke in the autopsy room whilst looking at a corpse! Grissam would have a fit!

[horseshoes]

I watched something recently (I think it was an old film) and there was a GP smoking at his surgery desk! I remember in the 60s our GP used to make his calls smoking a fag.

[sherrardk]

You can smoke on a set but not in rehersals - http://en.wikipedia.o...Exemptions_to_the_law

[anneasquith]

yes, when i was young you could hardly see the gp for the thick smoke. and nearly everyone in the waiting room were smoking...................ah the good old days.

[horseshoes]

That's the answer then. So if the smoking cast members have rehearsed all day without a fag, by the time they film they smoke like mad things! I know the actress who plays Deirdre LOVES her fags.

[4getmenot]

well they cant be looking fake can they. There are many actors that dont even smoke in real life but their characters do

[boxtops]

I went to see a consultant one time and he was smoking a pipe - it was not nice.

I watched an old war film recently and you could barely see them in the War Office, smoke wreathing everywhere! I still remember it in the pictures where the smoke would wreath up through the beam of the projector.

[anneasquith]

upstairs on a bus, you needed a gas mask

[4getmenot]

yes sonny you can smoke fake fags in a pub

[4getmenot]

exactly they wouldnt so you are very likely to get kicked out

[horseshoes]

Now that we are on the smoking subject, how do you all feel about it? It used to puzzle me that in some cafes and restaurants the smokers would be shoved to the back of the room and the non-smokers got the window seats. Wouldn;t it have been more sensible to give the window seats to to the smokers. PS I gave up about 8 years ago so I've been on both sides of the fence.

[tastymorsel]

Had a blo0ke 'smoking' one of those fake thingys in the p-ub the other day and you can tell it's not real because there is no smokey smell from them and also the 'smoke'disappears almost immediately.I also gave up smoking over 10 years ago and get fed up when out with friends who do smoke with having to hang around outside in the cold with them while they have a fag or get left on my own in the bar.Why can't there be separate rooms for smokers and then at least you can join them in comfort