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Originally Posted by Zero1986
I'm a smoker and i actually like the fact that smoking has been banned in bars and restaurants here, it's not really fair on non-smokers. Smoking areas have become the best part of bars and clubs here in my opinion. Plus you can actually talk to people without having loud music pumped in your ear and enjoy a cig at the same time. And i've got with 3 girlfriends thanks to smoking areas  |
I never would have thought that this would be the case but i actually agree about smoking areas outside now. Often i go out there, get talking to people and never go back inside.
I think the smoking ban is generally a good idea but i think its a bit too definite. Not every pub has the facility to have a smoking and non smoking area but plenty of pubs here have two completely seperate rooms where if they were allowed the option, they could easily have a smoking side to the place where it would be completely seperate from the non smoking side. However this is not an option. I hated the ban at first as a smoker but i dont mind slipping out every now and then. Even so, i know plenty of non smokers who have hated losing their friends every 20 minutes or for the majority of their night to a smoking ban.
I dont mind non smokers who don't want to be around it in pubs and bars where they feel that because of the design or size of the place, they cant go in and feel they have a choice whether to be around it or not. But to any non smokers who used to go into a bar where its was just as easy to keep away from the smoke but choose to go and sit next to someone smoking and then complain about it or ask them to put it out, you can take your opinions and go f
uck right off.