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No Smoking in Wales

Dic Penderyn said:
I am a cannabis user, do I get up and leave the pub mid-pint for a toke? No. I wait until I'm stumbling between boozers. Still, should I want to have a sly toke I now have a load of fag smokers to hide amoung I guess....
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Again, not really happening.

Even though they don't hand-out many tickets, the increased level of inspection has made pubs/clubs much more sensitive about folk having a toke outside/in the shelter, even in places that used to be reasonable about turning a blind eye - the smoking inspectors here also got the power to report to the licencing board & the local "anti-drugs partnership", which thanks to the new licencing laws (virtually the same as yours) forcing near compulsory membership, makes it very easy for a pub/club to get in deep shit.

In the meantime, coke seems to have become the pub-drug of choice after alcohol & I've never seen so many or such a wide variety of folk down in the bogs doing it!
 
editor said:
1. If you're a smoker, you'll want to go to a smoking pub because you're addicted to nicotine.
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If your friends go to a non-smoking pub with a comfy outdoor smoking area will you be sat outside with them breathing in their 'stinking' fumes or will you be sat inside on your own?
 
editor said:
Let's look closer to home: overall business was up in Scotland after the ban for pubs that offered food:
It said yesterday that drinks sales fell 1% in Scotland since the smoking ban, while food sales were up 11%. Overall sales increased by 2.6% in Scotland since the introduction of the smoking ban in March, compared with 3.8% for Britain overall.
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So if sales in Scotland have increased by 2.6% since the ban compared with 3.8% in the rest of the UK then Scotland has experienced a relative 1.2% drop in sales since the smoking ban came into effect.
 
pogofish said:
Just wait till the pubs start buying industrial quantities of pot-pourri, cheap perfume-squirters & best of all - start burning incense or getting bloody smoke machines to cover it up! :eek:

A Scottish pub the other week - with smoke machine going constantly.

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The place also tends to have a whole pagan altar's worth of incence smouldering away too!
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Is that in Aberdeen,Pogofish? Whereabouts?
(That's where I'm from , you see )
 
WouldBe said:
If your friends go to a non-smoking pub with a comfy outdoor smoking area will you be sat outside with them breathing in their 'stinking' fumes or will you be sat inside on your own?
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I'd probably have no choice but to sit inside, given the choice of breathing in clean air or hanging out in a place stuffed full of stinking smokers.
 
Thanks,pogofish,that's the one down the road from the maritime museum,isn't it?
When I lived in Aberdeen I tended to go to the Prince of Wales and the Blue Lamp with its incredible free juke-box full of prog rock.
But that was a very,very long time ago.
Can't imagine the Blue Lamp being smoke-free.
 
osterberg said:
Thanks,pogofish,that's the one down the road from the maritime museum,isn't it?
When I lived in Aberdeen I tended to go to the Prince of Wales and the Blue Lamp with its incredible free juke-box full of prog rock.
But that was a very,very long time ago.
Can't imagine the Blue Lamp being smoke-free.
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It is indeed.

Erm. Looks like we drank in the same pubs then. :D After the Moorings, the other two were amongst my next most likely - Also a long time ago! You would barely recognise the Blue Lamp today - Upstairs is gone altogether & they have extended into the old warehouse next door to make a pretty decent if slightly up-market live venue. Takes forever to get served at the tiny bar tho. :(

The Prince however is still the Prince & its new owners have done very little to change it. :)

I had the red Ducati that used to sit outside the Lampie & I think that jukebox is now part of my soul!

If you can remember the jukebox, you ain't that old - OK! ;)
 
Badgers said:
Anyone Welsh left in this thread?
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I'm still here & I work in a pub fulltime. It's brilliant & our pub hasn't suffered at all. We banned it a week before as well, due to a refurb.

Almost all our regular have taken it with good grace. They just nip out every 20mins & admit it's probably much better for them (you don't really need to smoke 3 fags per pint like I used to :rolleyes: )

So, a minor inconvenience for them. A massive improvement in health & working conditions for me! :)
 
lunatrick said:
I say good - for once wales is leading the way in the uk..(ok mainland uk)
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:confused: WTF?? You didn't know the ban on smoking is OVER a year old in Scotland??
Wales is hardly leading the way :p

My daughter also works in a pub(at weekends) and like spacemonkey is happy to go home NOT stinking of smoke.
 
definately a decent progressive step :cool: go on da Wales, went to buffalo yesterday where i 'had' to sit in the beer garden with me bro who's a smoker and then the clifton today which was well empty in the front bar but i didn't go and check their new 'good news' beer garden... :D

how can it not be more than a benefit for everyones health?
:)
 
llantwit said:
I think Grandma Death is Welsh, so I'm on her side.
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Born in scotland but brought up in wales-so I consider myself welsh ;) I am a he by the way :p

Also, because GLC is being a wanker.
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Hey dont call GLC that-he'll start banging on about you being a wankerist :D
 
I went on a day time drinking sess today. The pubs with beer gardens were very popular with lots of smokers outside.

Pubs without beer gardens weren't so popular.

All this may have just been because S Wales had a rare bit of sun but I'd be curious to know for certain or not whether the indoor could have played a part.

My mate mate a point whilst we discussing all this (its a popular convo piece with everyone ATM, could here other tables discussing it too) that when summer comes around all the non smokers will be wanting to use the beer gardens and will be moaning about all the smokers monopolising them.
 
That is exactly what happens on the better days. Never mind the surprising number of non-smokers who start bumming fags so they don't feel "left out" :rolleyes:

Also, there was a good reason behind them timing the ban to start with the lighter evenings up here too. Wait till the end of autumn when the cold really sets-in & the novelty wears off.

One thing tho, good winter woollies will be a very welcome christmas present for most smokers this year! :D
 
Clarity. I was in a pub for the first time yesterday and because there was no smoke I could see everything so clearly. Weird, but good.
 
lol yeah, one thing i am enjoying is not getting smoke in my eye and trapped behind my glasses, stings like a bitch, but outside generally a bit of wind to blow it from my direction, so tis also healthy for my eye... i guess :S
 
geminisnake said:
:confused: WTF?? You didn't know the ban on smoking is OVER a year old in Scotland??
Wales is hardly leading the way :p

My daughter also works in a pub(at weekends) and like spacemonkey is happy to go home NOT stinking of smoke.
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read the thread.....


pogofish said:
Would that be leading it a full year after Scotland then? :p :)
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fair enough - I pull my foot out of my mouth....I didn't know that! :o
 
Well it was my first experience of smoke free pubs on Saturday during my visit to Cardiff on Saturday, and to be honest I thought it was great.

Not having clothes stinking of smoke was fantastic! Oh and before anyone moans yes I do smoke, not much but I do like a couple of ciggys on a night out.
 
editor said:
I've just gained the liberty not to have to inhale some cunt's poisonous and stinky fumes when I'm in Wales.
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You seem to have changed your tune a bit since designing 'Urban75 Says: More Spliff For The Workers!' ...
 
Velouria said:
Well you don't seem very pro-smoking of anything these days ...

Is it now 'Urban75 Says: Take Your Stinking Filthy Spliff Outside' ?
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It may have failed to catch your attention, but smoking a spliff in a pub has been banned for as long as I can remember.

If you want to have a pop at me, try and formulate a half decent argument next time, eh?
 
editor said:
I'd probably have no choice but to sit inside, given the choice of breathing in clean air or hanging out in a place stuffed full of stinking smokers.
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Bourgeois puritan!
 
i was in lundun on the weekend and really noticed the smoke in the pubs after even just a week odd of no smoking in Cardiff, my eyes were stingin and it was foggy :(

just seen this on bbc Wales your pictures site :)
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A mother Blue Tit feeding her young, after setting up a nest in an outside ashtray in Cardiff (Tony Woodrow)
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awww
 
editor said:
It may have failed to catch your attention, but smoking a spliff in a pub has been banned for as long as I can remember.

If you want to have a pop at me, try and formulate a half decent argument next time, eh?
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i thought that was a pretty decent argument myself.

it's fine to smoke weed just as long as it's not in pubs:confused:
 
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