Ukip Conference: Smoking Ban 'more Harmful' Than Pit Closures (!)

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34363074

Really ?

What....the smoking ban is worst that mass unemployment in coal producing areas ?

Is any wonder that UKIP is seen as mad as a box of frogs ?

The mind boggles !

( TTT is going to love this ! )

[mikey4444]

I knew you'd love this thread TTT !

[Jackdaw33]

TTT's virulent attacks on smokers sit strangely at odds with his right-wing libertarian views on most other topics.

[mikey4444]

Jack....the disgust for smoking goes straight across all political borders I guess. But if I think about smoking these days, an image of Farage seems to appear !

( although he is said to like a pint of Real Ale, so perhaps he isn't all bad !

[ToraToraTora]

If attack smokers whenever possible jackdaw because they inflict their filth on the rest of us without any sort of regret, then they whine when their house is put in order for them. I don't care what anyone does as long as they do not force it on others. I like a pint but I don't go around forcing it down the throats of children.

[EDDIE51]

Pub closures are due to supermarkets selling beer for under £1 a pint and a bottle of wine for the price of a glass of wine in the pub. Very little to do with the smoking ban. The ban actually increased pub use when people no longer had to sit in a fog of smoke.

[Svejk]

^Nonsense

[Togo]

I would bet that not one of you have worked 'down the mine'. I have. Just about every man who worked down there took snuff and chewing tobacco, called black twist, or black pigtail, with him. Most sat and had a ciggy before they even had a bath, after coming back up. I didn't smoke then, but could recognise that it was a social habit as much as anything. I also feel that they who insist on telling us what they believe is good for us are usually the least fitted to do so.

[ichkeria]

The first two pubs in our town to introduce smoking bans (well ahead of the legislation) saw no decrease in their clientele, although I couldn't say for sure if the number of customers actually went up.
But despite my mistyping above, this chap from UKIP is not talking about pub closures is he? Whether or not they were caused by smoking bans. He's talking about people going home with a bottle of wine and a six pack instead of going to the pub, which admittedly if it were done on a large enough scale would lead to closures and maybe in the odd case actually has done. But either way, comparison with the effects of communities of pit closures, or large factories etc, is ludicrous. Even if you go as far as saying that such things might have their upside, Because surely there is an upside to people not smoking in public in confined spaces (!)