meh, who cares? i'm glad i quit smoking, it's stupid and it kills you. You know this century it'll kill 1 billion people prematurely?
Smoking permits
I'd rather they just rounded-up everyone who smokes and shot them.
Seriously though, this permit shit is absolute bollocks. One of the justifications I heard was that it'll stop people buying cigarettes for other people - which doesn't even make sense cos it won't !!!??!?!
Even seriouslier though, after the revolution, our gulags will have a special section where people can go and smoke, but instead of smoking fags, it'll just be a big hole in the ground with a massive tobacco fire and all the smokres can stand around the sides breathing it in.
Occassionally there will accidents where people fall in and burn to death, but that's to be expected and for the addicts it'll be a risk worth taking.
xConorx wrote:
Even seriouslier though, after the revolution, our gulags will have a special section where people can go and smoke, but instead of smoking fags, it'll just be a big hole in the ground with a massive tobacco fire and all the smokres can stand around the sides breathing it in.
Occassionally there will accidents where people fall in and burn to death, but that's to be expected and for the addicts it'll be a risk worth taking.
Free smoking. Count me in. 
Steven. wrote:
meh, who cares? i'm glad i quit smoking, it's stupid and it kills you. You know this century it'll kill 1 billion people prematurely?
Well call me a liberal, but I happen to be of the opinion that grown adults have every right to control what we do and don't do with our own bodies.
madashell wrote:
Steven. wrote:
meh, who cares? i'm glad i quit smoking, it's stupid and it kills you. You know this century it'll kill 1 billion people prematurely?Well call me a liberal, but I happen to be of the opinion that grown adults have every right to control what we do and don't do with our own bodies.
yeah I agree. While I certainly would like to shoot everyone that smokes it's their right to do whatever they want to their bodies - of course they'll be informed of the risk that I might shoot them because of it 
Back on the topic of post-revolution treatment of smokers - if there is a temporary time of scarcity and we we end up rationing resources, smoker will have to give up a proportional amount of their food rations to enter the smoking zone, depending on how much they smoke. Everyone initially would have a basic food ration, but everytime a smoker goes intot he smoking zone they give up some food, so hopefully they'll starve before they get cancer.
Only joking I like all you smokers really.
xConorx wrote:
Only joking I like all you smokers really
I used to like smokers and always tell them i didn't mind them smoking and shit, then the ban came in and i realised how much better everything was without them smoking and how shit they had made everything, and what dickheads they are
I went to the Dropkicks gig in Brixton on Saturday and people were smoking joints inside the academy. Which I thought was cool, how they got them in I don't know, I thought it was cool coz I'm a smoker but I'm trying to give up.Whern you think about it is kind of out of order to force people to inhale your smoke but before the ban no one said shit about smoking in public, very rarely anyway.
the only thing i'll say in defence of smokers is that by needing constant breaks at work they give everyone the excuse to have constant breaks. i reckon places that have banned smoking at all on the company grounds (eg hospitals) are just doing it to stop people having so many breaks
magnifico wrote:
the only thing i'll say in defence of smokers is that by needing constant breaks at work they give everyone the excuse to have constant breaks. i reckon places that have banned smoking at all on the company grounds (eg hospitals) are just doing it to stop people having so many breaks
Personally, I think this is a large part of this whole anti-smoking kick the government's been on the last few years. Smokers take more breaks and throw more sickies, the CBI doesn't like that and neither does the NHS.
madashell wrote:
Personally, I think this is a large part of this whole anti-smoking kick the government's been on the last few years. Smokers take more breaks and throw more sickies, the CBI doesn't like that and neither does the NHS.
Are your politics actually this crude and rubbish?
GDID is normally ok - but he has been REALLY moody over the last day or two. 
My views are similar to Conor's - like smokers, don't like the smoking bit.
Steven is being annoyingly hoity-toity - ex-smokers are the most evangelical - i have never smoked and hate the habit but this almost makes me sympathise with them! 
im one of the ex smokers that smokers moan about 
and im sorry but fuck off smokers. you stink. i mean you smell, really, really bad. when you come in my house or i walk past you in the street, even if you arent smoking, you still stink. and worse, your coats stink of stale ashtrays. you know when youve run out of fags and its been hours and so you go through dirty dog ends and make yourself a gross doggy roll up? well you know how that tastes kind of stale and ashy and horrid? well thats what you smell like.
and yeh, if you want to go and stink up your own personal space then thats your choice, absolutely. but the rest of us shouldnt have to deal with it. god when i was pregnant the most tiny whiff of a lit cigarette used to make me puke, it was horrible. i still heave if i get a lung full.
im also in favour, but a little bit less so, of banning all spray on perfumes from public space. fucking horrible when you get a throat full of some insecure kids perfume as they walk past.
i am so grumpy about this stuff 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/15/smoking.health
Fucking petty, micromanaging pricks. Can't see it actually going through, but the fact that it's being seriously proposed is ludicrous enough.