Some of us make the effort to get together for a herf and the favoured location is usually a pub garden somewhere. I know the Mail Online is not everyone's favourite news source but according to a leaked report from Westminster the government is planning to ban outdoor smoking in pub gardens as well as other locations. Before we all start berating Labour this was apparently proposed by Rishi under his plans to extinguish smoking in the UK. I love to smoke outside coffee shops and that will certainly be banned too. Guess we'll all be hosting herfs in our gardens next year.
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Writing was on the wall. It was only a matter of time. We are not alone https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67545363.amp.--
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It was mentioned on the BBC Breakfast show this morning, obviously Pub Gardens, alerted me. Can see it coming in because the people passing the laws don't use these facilities or own pubs. The initial smoking ban resulted in thousands of pubs closing & banning them from smoking outside will close more. It's in the open air FFS nothing to do with cancer or other illness, just kill joys. The bigger smokers are the bigger drinkers & will end up doing both at home, in front of the kids. Compared with the 6million UK Smokers left, I think they should be doing more to ban flavours in vapes, obviously aimed at children, like alcohol pops was to attract youngsters, who didn't really like the taste of alcohol.
Looks like my investment in my very own Cigar Lounge, wasn't so crazy after all!Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru & Venezuela.
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Originally posted by Simon Bolivar View PostIt was mentioned on the BBC Breakfast show this morning, obviously Pub Gardens, alerted me. Can see it coming in because the people passing the laws don't use these facilities or own pubs. The initial smoking ban resulted in thousands of pubs closing & banning them from smoking outside will close more. It's in the open air FFS nothing to do with cancer or other illness, just kill joys. The bigger smokers are the bigger drinkers & will end up doing both at home, in front of the kids. Compared with the 6million UK Smokers left, I think they should be doing more to ban flavours in vapes, obviously aimed at children, like alcohol pops was to attract youngsters, who didn't really like the taste of alcohol.
Looks like my investment in my very own Cigar Lounge, wasn't so crazy after all!
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Originally posted by oskihen View PostSmoking will eventually be banned everywhere. What irks me the most is the dictatorship. Eg as cigar smokers we should be able to have our own private members smoking club. We are all consenting adults and have free will.
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Originally posted by Simon Bolivar View PostIt was mentioned on the BBC Breakfast show this morning, obviously Pub Gardens, alerted me. Can see it coming in because the people passing the laws don't use these facilities or own pubs. The initial smoking ban resulted in thousands of pubs closing & banning them from smoking outside will close more. It's in the open air FFS nothing to do with cancer or other illness, just kill joys. The bigger smokers are the bigger drinkers & will end up doing both at home, in front of the kids. Compared with the 6million UK Smokers left, I think they should be doing more to ban flavours in vapes, obviously aimed at children, like alcohol pops was to attract youngsters, who didn't really like the taste of alcohol.
Looks like my investment in my very own Cigar Lounge, wasn't so crazy after all!
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The state continues its push, getting more and more intrusive in the name of 'health' or 'safety'. I'm always mindful of where I sit when I'm smoking in a pub garden, why can't they just leave things be.
As is said above I see vapes as a bigger problem (true, I am biased) but they're everywhere and without warning you find yourself enveloped in a big plume of exhaled vape. At least with cigars / cigarettes there's normally a visual indication and smoke which allows people to avoid it. The idea that they're not as bad as tobacco has people using them everywhere - I've seen people on planes, on buses, on trains and in stadiums (bloke in front of me last weekend) using them without care.
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Pub garden smoking ban 'will be DROPPED' after Britons slammed the plans and accused 'nanny state' Government of taking away people's freedom
By CLAIRE ELLICOTT WHITEHALL EDITOR and KATHERINE LAWTON
PUBLISHED: 19:40, 24 October 2024 | UPDATED: 21:08, 24 October 2024
A ban on smoking in outdoor spaces, such as pub beer gardens, could be abandoned.
The Government is said to be 'spooked' by warnings from the hospitality industry that the measure could lead to job losses and pub closures.
It has reportedly stepped in to remove the policy from the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which is yet to be published, according to the Guardian.
The paper reported that No 10 privately believes that banning people from smoking in pub beer gardens is 'an unserious' policy that is not backed up by good evidence.
They are said to be worried by the fierce opposition from the hospitality trade which was prompted by the plans.
Full article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-freedom.html
'Cigars are a hobby, cigarettes an addiction'
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It was never going to be a vote winner was it. They should come after the vapers more though... as someone who teaches, you can't tell me all those flavours like 'Cherry Cola', 'Watermelon' etc aren't aimed at kids, especially with all the bright colours that look like highlighters!
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Originally posted by TJ:01 View PostIt was never going to be a vote winner was it. They should come after the vapers more though... as someone who teaches, you can't tell me all those flavours like 'Cherry Cola', 'Watermelon' etc aren't aimed at kids, especially with all the bright colours that look like highlighters!
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I put my money on this idea not going through. If you remember 'Yes Minister' Sir Bernard told the PM how to get unpopular policy through. You come up with a more outrageous one, it causes outrage, eventually you remove that one, 'having listened to the people' & the rest slide through as seemingly not so bad.Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru & Venezuela.
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