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   fag ash lil from outside in the cold says:

   Nov 29, 16:57

   I have recently returned from the Land of the Brave. Where it was decidedly refreshing to find a chain of restaurants that were DEDICATED to smokers. The advertising outside the premises warned in no uncertain terms that there was a smoking policy in place. Chidren under 16 were not allowed in and adults would have no legal grounds to complain about the smokers who were choosing to exercise their right to smoke.
   Was it a busy establishment, you betya, to get in required bookin g in advance.
   great food , great atmosphere and strangely enough filled with happy people!
   Why can't we have simular here?
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   casper from glasgow says:

   Nov 29, 15:30

   dave from notts smoking does,nt kill half as quick as alchohol,why do,nt they ban that
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   Oliver Puff from Wet Outside says:

   Nov 29, 15:13

   Now my other posting's back - make your minds up!
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   Oliver Puff from Wet Outside says:

   Nov 29, 15:12

   Thanks for removing my last posting before anyone had a chance to read it. It wasn't obscene or anything, just my opinion, some concerning the shabby treatment of old soldiers who are treated as scum these days, having to struggle outside in all weathers to have a cigarette. Thanks for being concerned enough to save anyone's feelings by scratching my comments. It's good to know we're all in safe, caring hands. Democracy? Free speech? A Land Fit For Heroes? The NAZIS banned smoking. You heard of them? A lot of smokers died fighting against THEM in the name of FREEDOM – remember THAT?.
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   Oliver Puff from Wet Outside says:

   Nov 29, 14:53

   I've read an awful lot of comments here from non-smoking examples of perfection decrying smokers as pathetic & weak-willed, idiots, and a lot worse. Would these same people have denied a frantic puff to the troops who fought and died in two world wars? Weak-willed? Not bl**dy likely! Now these same heroes, often not able to walk or stand for more than a few minutes, are treated like outcasts, and made to stand outside in all weathers to do what they've always done - and LEGALLY. It's a total disgrace. I know I'm just referring to one section of the public, but these folk deserve better. They fought in appalling conditions and lost many friends in the conflict (WW2 - since WW1 was too long ago); and for them to have to be subjected to this treatment is nothing short of a national scandal. Have you non-smokers actually considered the fragile condition of older smokers? I doubt if you give two hoots - the only good smoker is a dead one, no doubt. Whatever the NHS MIGHT be saving from "400,000" giving up smoking (unquote bulls**t) is likely to be equalled, if not exceeded by rising cases of bronchitis (Don'T say it), falls, and hypothermia. Now the PC brigade are complaining about people's BREATH smelling. Passive breathing, eh? Non-smokers complaining of having to walk through clouds of smoke from wet & bedraggled, wheezing puffers in pub doorways? What do you expect, for God's sake? YOU wanted them out there in the first place! Now you don't like THAT. Someone mentioned that it's upsetting to have to sit in the pub garden with everyone smoking. Fine. YOU stay outside, and let smokers get back inside, where they'd happily rescue the licencing trade from the creeping death - Pubs, AND the drinking public (NOT binge drinkers - just average folk) are acually the victims of passive Non-smoking. Where will it all end? Not here, not in 'Yes Sir No Sir' Britain, it won't. Not unless common sense prevails. And "we" are good at that, aren't "we". NO. Gimme a fag.

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