It's illegal to smoke in public places in the UK from 6am tomorrow. I'm dead set against the law (and no, I don't smoke). Have a read of this . .
Smoking out truth over passive health
Kate Jackson, Wales on Sunday
PASSIVE smoking in pubs may not be as harmful as we think, according to the results of an exclusive Wales on Sunday investigation. In a three-hour period in a smoky bar, non-smokers were found to have inhaled the same amount of nicotine contained in less than one twentieth of a cigarette. Even the highest reading found in our experiment would add up to just 19 cigarettes a year - and that's only if a person was to spend 20 hours in the pub every week. Now pro-smoking group Forest has lashed out at the Government and the National Assembly, saying they are the "willing victims" of a "bullying campaign" to bring in a complete ban on smoking in public places. We sent our non-smoking testers to five different pubs across Wales to measure just how much cigarette smoke entered their systems within a three-hour period.
The full story is here
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I bloody knew it!
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Anyhow, I've been enjoying myself too much. I've seen the dawn up partying a couple of times recently, so I'm pulling the reigns in a little bit. It's only common sense for someone of my advancing years. I've got some kind of cough and I'm convinced it's something to do with lack of sleep and to much fun.
It's raining, and I'm drinking coffee and trying to get on with Van Morrison's Astral Weeks again. I do this every few years. I've spent a couple of hours tidying and the flat now looks almost like a grown-up's.
I'm reading the New Mark Haddon book, and it would be unfair to even expect it to be anywhere as near to good as Curious Incident. It is good though.
By the way, my cousin has bought a flat, but we are all to be calling it an apartment. Because that sounds posher. So it seems all flats will be called apartments soon, just as barbershops are salons and workmates are colleagues I suppose.
People!
4 comments:
By coincidence my State (NSW) has our ban coming in midnight tommorrow night (Mon).
And bloody not soon enough.
Just get out in the courtyard from now on, or out on the street ya smoke-ridden ghouls.
Six months from now you'll be wondering what all the fuss was about.
By the way, I was in a bar tonight, and they had a little room for smokers, glassed-off like a balcony thingy. You could tell they were all loving it in there, like some guilty clubhouse, puffing away, bonding under siege with friends, acquaintances, and strangers.
It's gonna be a new, fun thing from now on, this subculture of smokers, people are going to meet their future wives, best friends, business partners, plumbers etc etc in these little groups of cordoned-off nicotene addicts.
You love smoking so much Harvey? Pop into one of those glassed-off rooms and breathe in the 'good stuff'! You'll come out weezy and reeking, with a dry cleaning bill for ya jacket come Monday...just like the good ol' days hey?
You love smoking so much Harvey?
erm, no.
But that's not the point, is it?
One study cannot overturn decades of research. Especially not one carried out by an interest group.
I was playing on the first night of the ban. As I drove my van round to pick the gear up, I saw people standing on the street outside, puffing away. Reminded me of the first time I went to Ireland in 2004.
I know it's a good thing. I know . . but there's part of me that feels it's just plain wrong to be told what to do.
To be honest, I softened when I read "everyone has the right to work in a smoke free environment'. And I can't argue with that, if I'm honest.
I still think the law is wrong. . but I do see the common sense behind it.
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