Smoking banned in Scotland

Wonder how well that will go down in the working mens clubs in Glasgow?? It wont be long before there'll be nowhere in the world you can go for a cigarette and a beer...they already got New York and Ireland, now they've got the Scots. I find it very frustarating. I agree smoking is bad for ya etc...and I don't mind restaurants being smoke free but banning it in pubs ENTIRELY is too much....why not make some pubs smoke free or have separate sections. What happened to freedom of choice in our society??

Drugs are illegal yet smoking is as physically bad, also it affects other people too, so I don't see why it shouldn't be banned. I will be glad when it is banned everywhere.

ditto...hopefully it will be sooner rather than later

what about it? what about my rights not to be subjected to your harmful substances? you do know that second hand smoke causes lung cancer.

Exactly!!!

Its worked out fine in Ireland. Everyone was complaing before it even came in but now people don't care. I would say the majority of people are in favour of it.

Smokers just go outside to smoke. At least out there they are only killing themselves.

Yup - I'm with Neil and Kev and Spunky. New York may have banned smoking but New Jersey sure hasn't, even in restaurants. It stinks having dinner in a room full of smoke.

On the other hand, I am an ex-smoker (longterm ex). As everyone knows, there is nothing worse than a convert

Kathleen

I'm guessing either there's a flagrant disrespect for the law after this, with people just ignoring it, or the whole thing goes underground and they get some kind of nicottine Prohibition thing going. The people enforcing it deserve no less than both. I have no problem with banning smoking in restaurants or in other places where it will affect the unwilling, but to ban smoking in homes, or bars where people GO to smoke...do we have "shakes head" smilie?

Just out of curiousity, what reasons did they give for banning smoking?

Adrian

hehehe - me too

Yeah. There'll be speak easys where you have to go for your Marlboro lights. The main reason they've brought it in is because of all the death..... which is as good a reason as any I suppose. Its also to show that Scotland is a progressive nation under devolution, and not stuck in its old ways.