What Do You Think About Smoking??

its banned in all public places here in ireland, ie pubs, shops, offices etc. Its hilarious to see groups of smokers huddled together outside pubs in the pouring rain.

smoking should be banned! period. spear a though to the thousands of kids that have to go to hospital because of breathing secondhand smoke from their parents!

and dont even get me started about smokers in pubs and buses. 😡

@ Snowman,

OK I understand what you mean. But here in Belgium people are complaining they can’t bring their kids to the pub because it’s full of smoke. Kids?! They should be in bed by then. When I’m in a pub, I know it’s better for my lungs if I stayed out; but, hence the reason why I don’t LIVE in the pub. If you go twice a week to café, drink some beers and smoke some cigarettes, that’s gonna shorten your life anyway. So let the pubs be pubs, there are other things the gov’t should worry about. If people want to open a smoke-free pub, that’s fine for me, but that’s not up to the gov’t to decide. What’s next, won’t you be allowed to be drunk?

Cheese, meat, or tobacco…?;)

Flood.™

DCFLY, Benson and Hedges are £4.67, The majority are between £4.00 and £5.25 for 20.

WOW!!! a weeks wages!!

dave

DCFLY, Benson and Hedges are £4.67, The majority are between £4.00 and £5.25 for 20.

I packed up smoking about 8 years ago, had i not I might’ve been dead by now. I was breathless, pains in my legs and arms (arteries furring up I was told) and had a hacking cough.
Ive now got a clean bill of health …………….the last packet I bought cost me £2.45 for 20………..how much are they now??

dave

Filthy habit, waste of money and dangerous to your health. I smoke rollups by the way.

Actually I don’t really like the current trend of prohibiting cigarettes in all pubs. I don’t smoke myself, but in pubs people should have the opportunity to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. I already think the gov’t warned enough.

Fine as long as people who DON’T want to smoke have the ‘opportunity’ of enjoying a drink without having their lungs filled with smoke and their clothes and hair reeking of a 3-day old ashtray.
It works well as long as the two are kept apart.
I have no problem with peple smoking, none at all, as long as they don’t pollute non-smokers’ environement. I have very little respect (call it none) for selfish *@#=~ who smoke on buses for instance.

I like cigarettes and the smokers.
They pay a lot of taxes (Marlboro’s cost 5€ here now) and therefore non-smokers pay LESS taxes.

Keep on smoking folks ….

I’m surprised that you would say something like this. If it’s a joke, it’s not in fantastic taste. If it’s what you really think, it’s odd because you are normally quite sensible.
Did you stop to think how mluch money smokers cost the state in health-care because of smoking-related diseases and deaths?
Keep on smoking? Until what? Sorry Hand, I don’t think this is a light-hearted topic…

One last word: if you would like to kick the habit, I recommand Allen Carr’s books/video/clinics. He has branches in a lot of countries around the world and has devised a method to stop smoking. No will power necessary, no fuss, no bother. He destroys almost all of modern societies’s clichés about tabacco. Even if you are not a smoker, I highly recommand his books, especially “The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently”, which contains wonderful insights into his take on life (It really opened my eyes).
Best of all, he is a ex-chain smoker. So he is not like people who have never smoked and pretend they know it all and he doesn’t lecture you as in “Oh, it’s sooo bad for you; you should stop, you naughty person”.

If people are so fond of killing themselves why take ciggerets?? Just take poison and be done with.

Filthy habit, waste of money and a public nuisance.

I couldn’t of put it better

Don’t forget to stick your chin out…;)

Flood.™

If not ciggies try cigars…or Monica’s as i call them!

Im quite happy to say I never got hooked on cigarettes even though Ive tried them, although I dont really hold in the smoke in my lungs the same way serious smokers do. I feel very sorry for people who are addicted to cigarettes as I think its really a nasty habit to smoke all day. I wish they would do more genetic engineering with tobaco plants as Im convinced that genetic engineering will bring castastrofic damage onto some type of species, Id like that species that gets wiped out to be the tobaco plant. Smoking has been decreasing greatly in the US, its sad to see it increasingly used here in Mexico by the youth.

Actually I don’t really like the current trend of prohibiting cigarettes in all pubs. I don’t smoke myself, but in pubs people should have the opportunity to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. I already think the gov’t warned enough.

Thank God I do not waste my lungs on filthy smoke!

I like cigarettes and the smokers.
They pay a lot of taxes (Marlboro’s cost 5€ here now) and therefore non-smokers pay LESS taxes.

Keep on smoking folks …. 🙂

Ban them, but then the Gov’t would loose out on a lot of revenue

I don´t smoke and I think the cigarettes should cost more and more.

As a vascular surgeon, who earns his life fixing bad things done by the habbit of smoking, I would certainly work less if people smoked less, but the society as a whole would benefit.

In my country, cigarettes are not so expensive as in the UK (I talked to people who lived there, and many of them quit when living there, because of the price). Even so, problems with smuggling and false brands (brought from Paraguay) are increasing. 🙁

I smoke Benson & Hedges Gold (unless I am poor which is when I smoke Green Rizlas with Golden Virginia). I smoke about 20 per day, have done for two years. I think it is really really stupid and really really expensive. An increase in the price would make me cut down I suppose, but then it depends on the size of the increase.