What Is Your Attitude Towards Smoking?

[Nameless14]

To me it smells terrible and I try to avoid it and those who do it while they are smoking. I don't do it myself but I'm ok with others doing it, as it's their choice.

[ummmm]

Pubs are way better now with the smoking ban. Even smokers don't want to breath in others peoples smoke. The pubs I go in have really nice smoking areas. Non smokers have the choice to come out with us.

What makes me laugh....you walk into a pub and it looks pretty quiet until you go to the smoking area.

[ummmm]

And another thing, getting rid of packs of 10 was a bad idea. I know it's to discourage young people but I used to buy packs of 10...now I can only buy packs of 20 and I find I smoke more.

[waterboatman]

As an ex smoker I think it should be banned in all public places.

[ummmm]

Like in the street?

[waterboatman]

Yes. The smoke does drift.

[10ClarionSt]

This OP is the perfect topic to bring out all the precious, saintly, pontificating AB'ers. Of which there are many. I don't care at all about smokers. I don't believe that passive smoking is harmful to health and no-one can name one single person whose bad health has been cause by passive smoking. If you can, go ahead. Name one person whose poor health has been caused by passive smoking as stated by a doctor or health specialist. You won't find one. I've said this before on here and I'll say it again. In 1949, a govt survey showed that 81% of men and 62% of women were smokers. If you are a baby-boomer, like me, you will have been carried through pregnancy in all that passive smoke and possibly your mothers smoking. You were then born into a world where smoking was everywhere; at home; relatives; public transport; leisure facilities. You were born into a world of rationing and austerity. You were born into a world of heavy winter smogs and pollution. Lots of us were born into slum dwellings like in Ancoats, Mcr, at the time. Now, we are told that we were the "Lucky Generation" and we will live longer than any generation before, and become a burden on the Health Service. How can anyone reconcile the history to the hysteria that surrounds smoking today? It don't stack up yer' onor.

[Spicerack]

^You tell em, Clarion.

[ToraToraTora]

I've always hated smoking, my mum died of lung cancer and she was always trying to give up everyone else in my family smoked, I hated it but it seemed normal. When the ban came in in 2007 I was elated with it.

[ToraToraTora]

10CS - Roy Castle.

[hc4361]

I've never understood why smokers think it is preferable to smoke in the kitchen rather than the rest of the house.
Same with feeding dogs and cats. The kitchen is last place I want such activities taking place, even when I was a heavy smoker.

[hereIam]

I don't allow smoking in my house and I quite happily feed my dog in the kitchen.

[pixie374]

TTT, has there been any evidence for Roy Castle? (I don't know). I know he believed it himself, but never saw any proof.

[10ClarionSt]

Ah, yes. Roy Castle. HE said it was passive smoking that caused is his ill-health. No-one else said it. But because HE said it, and he was a popular entertainer, it must be true, right? He was a nice man. It must be true. No-one could, or can, prove it. Why was he the only one amongst all those club-land people? What about other performers and audiences? People are gullible when someone like him makes a statement. No proof. Just hysteria. Isn't anyone going to reply to my "Baby boomer" correlation?

[ToraToraTora]

Roy Castle died of lung cancer, he was a non smoker.

[Calicogirl]

That in itself though isn't proof of anything, he could have got lung cancer for a variety of reasons, not just because of passive smoking. x

[Spicerack]

Babies get lung cancer, ttt.

I answered your post, clarion. Don't I count?

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Castle#Illness_and_death

[hc4361]

Have you got a link to show that babies get lung cancer? I can't find anything online to support that and China's youngest ever lung cancer patient was 8 years old.

[Grandpappy]

Smoke more! The more they smoke the less tax I pay so 'just get on with it' and enjoy!

[Spicerack]

Not really. Just thought it was a well known fact.
Cancer is a rogue gene, innit. Anyone can get it anywhere, anytime.
Wales had the smoking ban before England. Was it the same year as Baldric's link says.