Smoking Ban

[Emaresee]

Can't smoke outside school when picking up our kids
because children will see us smoking a pipe or chomping on a robusto
and think look at the man smoking think i'll try my dads pipe when I get home
might pinch a couple of his robusto's to share with my mates behind the bike shed
what a load of bo###cks

Brave child that takes a few sticks without permission!! Dont know hwo much teenage pocketmoney a behike would take... But i'm guessing not many to the pound!

[Matt Wall]

I only smoke outside due to my family not liking it so for me this isn't great news. I can maybe understand beaches but as long as it doesn't spread to banning EVERYWHERE outside then we should be okay, he says...


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[Simon-JG-hr]

We shall fight them on the beaches!

Problem is, with every inch they take now, there's a mile coming somewhere down the line. Or am I being far too cynical for my relative youth?

[TonyN]

When is all going to stop targeting the smokers.

Smoking breaks are to be a thing of the past for workers at Gedling Borough Council after local politicians agreed to enforce a ban.
Staff will be told they aren't allowed to have a break for a crafty cigarette from the start of next year and must also cover their council uniform when lighting up


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[Serhiy]

Ban,ban,ban..... So, time to smoking e-cigarette.

[madgaz]

Ahhh, this good 'ole government of ours.
Can they not concentrate on banning smoking outside hospital entrances instead?

I reckon most of us on here choose to light up away from 'the public' anyway, don't we?

[Serhiy]

Ahhh, this good 'ole government of ours.
Can they not concentrate on banning smoking outside hospital entrances instead?

I reckon most of us on here choose to light up away from 'the public' anyway, don't we?

True

[TonyN]

Ban,ban,ban..... So, time to smoking e-cigarette.

That's what you think.

Smoking breaks will be stubbed out for more than 1,000 employees after a council announced a blanket ban on lighting up in work hours.
Nottinghamshire County Council will discipline workers who are caught smoking at any time during their paid working hours and the rules will apply to any authority-owned buildings, land or vehicles.
A policy document circulated to staff yesterday, and seen by the Post, said staff had "no right to smoke" and the council has a "key role" in promoting better health in Notts.
The ban, which also prohibits the use of e-cigarettes, has been welcomed by health experts but union chiefs say it is a "step too far".


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[sheppsea]

Although I don't think the Councils should be bringing employee's health into it as its none of their business, I do agree that people shouldn't be allowed a paid cigarette break, why should smokers be given more breaks than me but get paid the same?

[Wigan]

Although I don't think the Councils should be bringing employee's health into it as its none of their business, I do agree that people shouldn't be allowed a paid cigarette break, why should smokers be given more breaks than me but get paid the same?

Drink coffee?

[sheppsea]

I drink tea rather than, as do most smokers

[Wigan]

I drink tea rather than, as do most smokers

Drink it while your getting paid to work?

[TonyN]

Just heard on the radio we are costing our employers 50 million in lost earning by going for a quick smoke break.

[sheppsea]

Drink it while your getting paid to work?

I drink as I work - we don't have coffee or tea breaks, but that's beside the point

Even if we did have coffee breaks and taking into account any other time not doing proper work, everyone would be entitled to those, whereas the fact still remains that a smoker is given an extra say 20 minutes break a day (assuming 10 minutes for one in the morning and another 10 in the afternoon) on top of anything a non-smoker would get

There are of course other ways to have handled it and its not that I am particularly outraged about it or would bother to bring in the same where I work, but as a point of principle I agree with what the council are doing and don't see it as an attack on smokers and don't really see what anyone would have to complain about

[PeeJay]

Its not all bad news, more people are dying from drug overdoses than ever before. It might gain us some breathing space a while longer