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[cyprusgrump]

well banning it won't lead to that also?

Yes.

You can't un-invent cigarettes.

Remember the Americans tried to ban alcohol. It didn't work, the trade in booze just went underground and the government lost millions of Dollars in tax revenue.

If you banned cigarettes it would just go underground in the same way.

Remember also that drugs are banned almost world-wide. No advertising, no promotion, you can't legally sell them or posses them.

Yet millions of youngsters try drugs (and many become addicted to them) every year.

I'd suggest that banning cigarettes would make them 'cooler' in the eyes of youngsters, would lead to a huge black market trade by organised criminals, would remove billions from the tax returns of countries around the world and wouldn't reduce smoking at all...

[paliometoxo]

just one more day now... i wonder how many get fines and how many cops turn a blind eye..

i dont even want to think what it will be like when we go back to uni and int he cafe no one can smoke :S where will they gooo noooo lol the streets will be filled with smokers drinking frappe

[cyprusgrump]

just one more day now... i wonder how many get fines and how many cops turn a blind eye..

i dont even want to think what it will be like when we go back to uni and int he cafe no one can smoke :S where will they gooo noooo lol the streets will be filled with smokers drinking frappe

In the UK the government spent millions (£30M I think) on 'enforcement' officers to check compliance with the law. They had powers to work undercover and even photograph smokers to secure evidence against them.

Exorbitant fines were introduced, Nick Hogan was ordered to pay £10,000 for breaching the law and Tony Blows £12,000...

[paliometoxo]

thats a lot of money to spend espesially at times like these.. you will see in nicosia now all around the cyprus college filled with smokers standing outside... me personally i always went outside anyway i hated it inside it was to smokey for me lol not that i smoke much just to pass the time when on a break or when drinking alcohol...

[cyprusgrump]

thats a lot of money to spend espesially at times like these.. you will see in nicosia now all around the cyprus college filled with smokers standing outside... me personally i always went outside anyway i hated it inside it was to smokey for me lol not that i smoke much just to pass the time when on a break or when drinking alcohol...

Heheheh...

In the UK you can't smoke anywhere on a railway station - even right at the end of the platform which used to be the traditional place...

Instead, all smokers are crowded around the entrance to the station so you have to walk past them to get in!

[denizaksulu]

thats a lot of money to spend espesially at times like these.. you will see in nicosia now all around the cyprus college filled with smokers standing outside... me personally i always went outside anyway i hated it inside it was to smokey for me lol not that i smoke much just to pass the time when on a break or when drinking alcohol...

I am a non-smoker; can I ask you if you ever smoked to 'look cool'?

[FragnaticDeath]

I smoked to look cool but I failed

[paliometoxo]

thats a lot of money to spend espesially at times like these.. you will see in nicosia now all around the cyprus college filled with smokers standing outside... me personally i always went outside anyway i hated it inside it was to smokey for me lol not that i smoke much just to pass the time when on a break or when drinking alcohol...

Heheheh...

In the UK you can't smoke anywhere on a railway station - even right at the end of the platform which used to be the traditional place...

Instead, all smokers are crowded around the entrance to the station so you have to walk past them to get in!

so the none smokers have to walk passed a cloud of smoke to go anywhere .. makes sense.. i can see the same happening at uni it will be over crouded and no one will be able to get in or out

thats a lot of money to spend espesially at times like these.. you will see in nicosia now all around the cyprus college filled with smokers standing outside... me personally i always went outside anyway i hated it inside it was to smokey for me lol not that i smoke much just to pass the time when on a break or when drinking alcohol...

I am a non-smoker; can I ask you if you ever smoked to 'look cool'?

im afraid thats why i started.. to be cool and smoke when i was 13.. but to be honest i dont really smoke that much anymore .. i can go months without and not even care years even.. i mostly do it when i drink alcohol i hate drinking and not smoking and at uni with a frappe.. which is another reason why im not much of a drinker i rarely drink alcohol.

plus anytime i am at home and i smoke i keep getting the hiccups i dont know why its so annoying.. it puts me off..

you never smoked?

[paliometoxo]

I smoked to look cool but I failed

kalitera re file.. smoking is a waste of money like paying to kill yourself..

but there have been cases of peopel dying of lung cancer when not even smoking 1 smoke in their whole life.. probably from breathing other peoples smoke

[FragnaticDeath]

There's lots of reasons for cancer. But I do agree with cg that smoking with alcohol intake it feels better.