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[GorillaGal]

niki- don't say that in the USA, you are apt to get beat up.

[orokliniservices]

funny thing is, these places put up non smoking areas but still allow smokers to sit and smoke in those sections.. what's the point!!

[miltiades]

Have you noticed how smoking has become the "third world habit " as the tobacco giants faced with decreasing numbers of Western world smokers are concentrating their efforts in the third world.
I have a suggestion that should Cyprus unite , a new national anthem in full praise of smoking should be adopted.

[Niki]

niki- don't say that in the USA, you are apt to get beat up.

Oh, I just got it!!! Bit slow.

Could be interpreted differently!

[DUNCAN]

I would dearly like to find out what the law really is now about smoking in Bars and Restaurants. I was in my usual pub over Easter and sitting in the non smoking area. A family came in and sat next to us whereupon the man proceeded to start smoking. I pointed out the "no smoking"signs and he went to the landlord to complain. To my astonishment the landlord then came over and asked if I really objected to the man smoking. I said I did and he went on to ask other people if they objected. Fortunately they said they did too and that was the end of the matter. During this incident I told the landlord that it was illegal to smoke in this area and he should not be asking us to "overlook" it. He told me it was not illegal in a ventilated pub. There was no ventilation to speak of in that pub and subsequent visits there have made it quite clear that he has no intention of stopping people smoking in the designated no smoking area. Does anyone know what authority should be policing this act?

[G.Man]

just report to police, they will raid, £1000 fine for landlord... he will get the message

[Sotos]

I agree with the ban. But I wonder how big the designated smoking areas can be? If the 90% of customers of a bar are smokers can that bar have 90% smoking area and 10% non-smoking?

[miltiades]

Smoking should not only be banned in public places but also in offices and workplaces . Citizens going about their daily work in offices or factories must be protected by the Government ,, no one has a right to poison my atmosphere , in fact if it was up to me a packet of cancer sticks would cost 100.00 plus 30 days community work starting with picking up cigarettes buds from public places , sea front areas and elsewhere. I was a smoker for 38 years , gave up 8 years ago . I served 38 years as a prisoner of this nasty profoundly smelly addiction. I enforced my poisonous fumes on to my wife , a non smoker all her life , and onto my two children. It was an absolute disgrace and I have repented , rather late somehow.

[DUNCAN]

Good for you! I have never smoked and have had many -"set-to's" with people smoking while I was eating. I worked for many years in the British Merchant Navy sharing a cabin with up to 12 people most of whom smoked. God knows what damage this has caused me but I now have asthma and chest problems. I can understand people finding it difficult to give up smoking but will never understand their attitude that it is their "human right" to smoke and poison the air.

[DUNCAN]

A follow up to my first posting on this subject : My grandson does not drink alcohol but likes to sing in Karaoke. A member of staff in the pub where we drink told him that, as he did not drink anything but coffee or orange juice, he had no right to complain about people smoking in the no smoking area. I think we will be visiting the police quite soon.