Smoking at entrances

[Pete Reek]

Mr Gen Jack sir. I am a former smoker but don't agree that I am self rightious in my opinions of smokers. I am certainly not against those who choose to smoke having the right to do so.
I am sorry that being one of this group causes you some agitation to the protuberances on your chest however, so to remedy that can I suggest some Zinc and Castor Oil Cream applied liberally to the problem area maybe once or twice a day. Perhaps Dr Snoddy from the Carradale thread
would manage to fit in a home visit and come up with another solution to alleviate the symptoms.

You must be very honoured to be in the group Pick and Mix suggests all the NHS spends its cash on.
If I break my leg do I need to start smoking again to get treatment?
I'm belting the bevvy down my throat and have tripped and split my napper--- will a wee cheroot or a roll up see me getting a few stitches at the Clinic?

[spangles]

Gaun yersel Mr Reek getting this back on thread. I knew you were good for something

S

[Wee Toon Ajax]

Yes, but smokers actually pay more money in taxes on the specific product of cigarettes than is actually spent by the National Health Service on treating smoking related diseases. Smokers contribute more than 10.5 billion pounds in taxes on cigarettes alone annually to the Exchequer whilst at the same time the burden on the NHS relating to treating smoking related diseases is thought to be around 1.7 billion pounds.

Are you aware that obese people are now actually one of the biggest burdens on the NHS - now as a smoker I demand that a tax be put on chubbies cos why should the tax that I pay on a packet of cigarettes be used to treat overweight people, I mean at the end of the day nobody is forcing them to eat more food than is actually required to survive on a daily basis.

Now what actually would anybody call a normal operation, please tell me as I am really interested in their knowledge of the medical profession

Like most smokers I know it is a filthy habit, yes and I wish I never had started but being honest I am sick to the back teeth of being lectured by a bunch of do gooding self righteous smug arrogant arses. We as smokers are already treated like pariahs without having to be talk down to by perfect specimens of humanity.

[abbey craig]

you ok ajax,were you out on the bevvy last night feeling a bit rough maybe

[bill]

Thought it was April 1st when I read this in today's Daily Mail.

Government ministers have drawn up plans to introduce a "smoking permit" at approx.£10 annual fee.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

[The Elusive Mr D.]

As someone who has never smoked I don't feel particulary self-righteous about fags and their habits, but it is getting increasingly difficult to get into any of the four pubs in this area without pushing past several of the species with ash on their clothes and attitudes in their heads. One of the local hostelries has erected a small marquee tent at the back of the premises which could hold 30-40 people, if they were well acquainted, but most faggers prefer to stand at the front door where they can be seen to suffer for their addiction.
Another hotel, which I have to pass on my way home, has only a narrow pavement between it and the road and on more than one occasion I have had ash flicked on my face by someone standing inside the doorway and not looking to see if anyone was walking past before getting rid of their rubbish.
The day after the smoking ban was introduced I met my brother-in-law in the pub and he had a huge grin on his face. He and his mate had been outside in the marquee enjoying a large roll-up, most of which didn't contain tobacco!
How is the barman supposed to check outside and keep his thirsty customers happy at the same time?

Just read the article in the Mail and I don't like the idea. I may not like smoking but I don't like individual freedom being restricted even more. Will I need to get a license to buy my wife a pack of cigs?
The police state is getting closer all the time.
Big brother isn't just a crap tv programme.
They're coming to get us all!

[4th gen Suthen']

I find it quite intimidating walking past, or even worse, in to a pub with the kind of smokers MrD mentions at the door.

I've never smoked a cigarette in my life but have nothing against smokers or smoking....just find the front door smokers kinda scary!
They would deter me going in.

[Wee Toon Ajax]

you ok ajax,were you out on the bevvy last night feeling a bit rough maybe

AC, is it that obvious - was a good night - at the football and then on to local hostelry

[abbey craig]

just a guess ajax how you doin anyway big yin,life treating you well in the netherlands??

[Wee Toon Ajax]

aye, not bad at all mate. Working away as norm and living a good life, well until they ban smoking in pubs in July lol

[gizmo]

As a reformed sinner I demand the right to be smug and indeed self-righteous. I never smoke, very rarely drink and am only about 4 stone away from perfection.. The idea of a licence for smoking seems a bit strong I would have thought making them sew geometric patches on their coats would have been adequate..

[Kintyre Lad]

Are you aware that obese people are now actually one of the biggest burdens on the NHS - now as a smoker I demand that a tax be put on chubbies cos why should the tax that I pay on a packet of cigarettes be used to treat overweight people, I mean at the end of the day nobody is forcing them to eat more food than is actually required to survive on a daily basis.

[Dunc R]

Are you aware that obese people are now actually one of the biggest burdens on the NHS - now as a smoker I demand that a tax be put on chubbies cos why should the tax that I pay on a packet of cigarettes be used to treat overweight people, I mean at the end of the day nobody is forcing them to eat more food than is actually required to survive on a daily basis.

Ajax where do "chubbie puffers" sit in this "Tax bracket"

[jdcarra]

I find it quite intimidating walking past, or even worse, in to a pub with the kind of smokers MrD mentions at the door.

I've never smoked a cigarette in my life but have nothing against smokers or smoking....just find the front door smokers kinda scary!
They would deter me going in.

I John, you say outside the door, but passing through Balloch tonight, stopped at the local chippy by the train station, went inside, passed my order and one of the staff went to the doorway, coat on, stood in the doorway and lit up. The smoke was belching back into the chippy. On my way out she had no intention of moving outside to let me pass, had to squeese by her. Pity the camera was in the car.

[general jack o'niell]

i'm puzzled? did these smokers intimidate you lot when we were still allowed to smoke inside? or as i and at least G. would suspect, you never noticed us at all!!!

i can honestly never recall being put out by being in the company of someone who was smoking when i wasn't, are smokers immune to all the suffering nonsmokers had to live thru, that we don't notice when someone else is smoking near us, ok so it usually compels you to light one up yourself but i can't remember ever thinking, " damn, he is smoking and the smoke is coming my way, to prevent it making my clothes smell and blackening my lungs by osmosis or whatever form passive smoking might kill me i better light up one of my own" no its never that complicated as that, someone lights up, you get a whiff, the brain says "fag? good idea" then you light one of your own, or more usually the smoker has offered you one of his so you are already smoking. do nonsmokers sit in silence, nobody speaking, but all quietly thinking to themselves "how will i get home? i can't go out the door with those smokers standing there, they might kill me in ten to fifteen years time"

being a smoker makes us dangerous and scary does it? you and me ajax, compared with davie p and sweltered we are the "DANGEROUS BROTHERS!!!!!"