^ Same here.

I smoke and I support the indoor smoking ban. It's easy enough for me to wait until I'm out-doors to light up. I do enjoy smoking in bars though, but if it was banned I wouldn't mind as long as the smoking area wasn't a dejected, depressing, shoe-box of a room like you see in airports.

I think it's great that smoking is banned in public in New Zealand. It's nice to go to a pub and choose whether you want to enhale smoke or not. I am a dirty occassional smoker but normally never do, so it's nice to not have the influence in my face all the time.

I never really saw the appeal of 'occasional smoking.' Seriously, what does it do for you? Most people I know either smoke or don't, I find it odd when I meet someone who smokes only occasionally. (I'm talking about cigarettes here... other drugs are a different matter).

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 fuck right off.

I am not sure if this has already been posted here.... but no smokers find this alarming?
Smoking Carpet Glue

I mean... WTF. Why did the government insist they add more bad **** to cigarettes. I just looked at my brothers cigs and he says has noticed a coppery taste with his cigs, and they have the FSC letters on the box.

i never smoked to the point where i was addicted to cigarettes...but i did smoke enough at one point to see the fun and appeal in socially smoking. it really is a great way to start a conversation if you have to go to a smoking area. or if you are in a bar that allows smoking...well, beer and cigarettes just seem to go together. it helps me pace my drinking...if i don't pay attention then i end up blacking out and that never produces good results.

edit: if this sounds like a big excuse to keep smoking, it isn't. it is bad and i hope to even end my social smoking someday. but for now i like it.

Social smoking is how i started. Social smoking is how pretty much everyone starts.

I used to smoke but quit many years ago. I used to buy tobacco pouches and roll my own. Even though it's been quite a few years since I quit, I still miss it on occasion .. (coffee, piece of chocolate, hand rolled cigarette .. a pleasure I'll always miss :()

I agree with this. Despite it sounding like a contradiction, the real attraction of smoking is the addiction. It's satisying the hunger for a cigarette comparable to like one might satisfy hunger for food with a meal. If you haven't developed a craving and still smoke, then what you're doing is really quite stupid.

Since I quit, I've been largely against cigarettes. From a selfish point of view, the most exposure to them can do to me now is make me miss them. ;)

Yeah that's pretty much how i started. I used to smoke only on nights out because most of my friends did but pretty soon i started smoking all the time. I'm not a heavy smoker but sometimes i wish i could just go back to social smoking.

It's how I started. From 14 years old onwards I smoked socially off and on and by the time I reached 19 I started buying my own packets occassionally. Now I'm a non-smoker. I didn't feel it that difficult to stop, it was a natural process, it didn't give me enjoyment like before.