| # | Name | Comments |
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| 3401 | Anonymous | My local pubs are dying due to lack of trade. I have heard only ONE non-smoker say that they agree with the ban, and she only comes into the pub once in a blue moon. At least do the decent thing and provide us with one room that can be used by smokers. After all, smoking itself is not illegal so why should we be treated like criminals? |
| 3402 | julie | why should anybody be made to stand outside in the cold.what about our elderley customers who fought in the wars for there country and won to keep our freedom , what freedom ? the government has took it all away |
| 3403 | Richard Jackson | |
| 3404 | Greg Foote | I'm all for smoking.
The real problem
is:Idiots killing
innocent people
with guns& pipe bombs. |
| 3405 | Brenda Orsler | Smoker for almost 50 years and do not intend stoppinng. So do not go out to drink or eat any more. |
| 3406 | Michael Wiffen | |
| 3407 | Anonymous | ammend this law now! |
| 3408 | larry pepin | |
| 3409 | Anonymous | |
| 3410 | Paddy Ford | |
| 3411 | Anonymous | |
| 3412 | John Farrell | I am a smoker. Most of my drinking friends are smokers. Some are non smokers, but they don't mind whilst we are in company. I have a total in excess of 1200 signatures on specially prepared forms who are against the smoke free dictatorship. |
| 3413 | mike brennan | |
| 3414 | Anonymous | |
| 3415 | Carol Whittle | Disapprove in the fact that we are unable to smoke at work, at the airports, pubs, clubs, etc |
| 3416 | Angela Morgan | I live in Wales, but feel that the ban in the UK is discriminatroy and has created a large divide between smokers and non-smokers which was not present before the ban |
| 3417 | Peter Welch | Pubs that don't serve food should be given the option. Licensees I have spoken to in my village are struggling to survive financially |
| 3418 | Craig Scott | |
| 3419 | Andrew King | Locally, where I live the pubs are becomming quieter and quieter as the weather gets colder and smokers can't stand comfortably outside and enjoy a fag! Even non smokers that I know of are complaining that the total ban is ludicrous because the pubs are becoming empty and soleless (no atmosphere :-) ).
The ban on smoking is destroying the pub industry, and yet another part of our culture. Everything the Labour goverment touches they reck, yet they claim they dont want to change our way of life. They are certainly changing things for the poor pub owners and their staff - countless jobs and careers lost - and nights out ruined for all.
Pubs allways used to have a tap-room, usually the smokiest place in the house. Could this idea not be re-adopted? I bet publicans would breath a sye of relief if such a compromise could be met, and their pubs became profitable again. |
| 3420 | Julia Shubrook | |
| 3421 | Catherine Higgins | |
| 3422 | Paul Dalloway | |
| 3423 | Anonymous | I AM A NON SMOKER AND A LANDLADY AND ALL THOUGH AT THE MOMENT WE HAVE NOT SUFFERED MUCH WITH THE SMOKING BAN I DO DISAGREE WITH IT. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THERE BUSSINESS AND HOMES DUE TO THE BAND. I AM ALL FOR THE SMOKING BAN TO BE LIFTED OR EACH LANDLADY OR LANDLORD SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY YES OR NO. EVEN GO BACK TO THE OLD DAYS WHERE THERE USED TO BE A SMOKE ROOM.
BRING SMOKING BACK IN I SAY. |
| 3424 | ian gaskell | I, THE UNDERSIGNED, AM AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S IMPOSED BAN ON SMOKING IN PUBS AND CLUBS. I FEEL THAT SELF REGULATION AND VENTILATION IS THE CORRECT ROUTE TO TAKE IN A DEMOCRACY |
| 3425 | dave | so much for a free country - hardly a day goes by with out yet another thing that should be regarded as "right " is took away from us. |
| 3426 | Eleanor Holland | Not only are the smokers ostracised into the freezing cold like some kind of leper, but the sudden change of the age is also ridiculous. I mean to the very least they cpuld have had a cut off gap, but now well established 16 and 17 year old smokers, perfectly legally buying cigarettes before are stuck. They expect people at 16 in some cass to pay taxes, in others to sit massive exams which implicate the rest of their lives, you can go and die for your country at this age, have a baby, get married, move away from your house etc etc but not light up an innocent little cigarette ? It shows truely where the governments interests lie. |
| 3427 | Anonymous | I am writing this letter to complain about the current smoking ban which we have had to put up with for the last 6 months or so. I and many of my friends (smokers and non-smokers alike) believe that this current legislation has gone too far and curtails our civil liberties and freedom of choice.
Twenty Five million people smoke in this country and all that this current ban has done is help to segregate our society by sending smokers outside into the damp and cold should they wish to have a smoke on a night out at a local pub or club.
Many pubs and clubs across the country have closed down since this ban was introduced and I am sure many more will do so in the new year resulting in less tax revenue to the government, unemployment and a cutailment to many peoples social life.
May I please take this opportunity to ask for an amendement to the current ban to allow publicans and landlords the opportunity to apply for a licence should they wish to have their venue as a smoking establishment. That way landlord, publicans, pub workers and customers alike can choose to have, work in or visit the pub or not as the case may be. People must be given the right to choose on such matters!
This I believe is a far more sensible way of dealing with the perceived problem whilst at the same time allowing for our hard won personal freedoms to be expressed.
What does not seam to be taken into account in the current legislation is the fact that we already had a smoking ban in place in this country long before the current draconian ban was introduced. Afterall when was the last time you saw someone smoking in a supermarket, chemist, dry cleaners, church, airplane, bus or train?
Is this really the party of “no fun”, the party responsible for taking the so called “nanny state” to the extreme?
The current legislation is absolutely killing the great British Pub and along with it the enjoyment for millions of being a place to chat with friends, relax and have a drink and a smoke. (Afterall there were few other places you could.)
Please, please re-think this crazy ban and give people a fair and tolerant choice based on personal freedom and equality. |
| 3428 | john | What's happenned to freedom of choice.In my local even the non smokers come outside with us smokers so that they don't have to sit on thier own. It'll be the drinkers they pick on next. |
| 3429 | Anonymous | |
| 3430 | Anonymous | |
| 3431 | Anonymous | Smoking is bad for you, it's killing me so is asbestos, fibreglass, dust from cutting rags etc all of which I have worked with. But strangely it is only smoking that is killing me. funny: I can breath better in Spain/Bulgaria etc! Possibly could be less Car fumes, Cleaner air. Who Knows |
| 3432 | glyn jones | |
| 3433 | Paula Blackburn | It's the smoking ban that stinks. |
| 3434 | corinne alvarado | |
| 3435 | lacy moore | |
| 3436 | Jean woodhouse | |
| 3437 | Angela gil | |
| 3438 | Greg Howes | THE SMOKING BAN STINKS, I'M A REGULAR YET NOT HEAVY SMOKER AND I FIND MYSELF INDOORS MUCH MORE OFTEN NOW, ITS JUST NO GOOD OUT IN THE COLD.TONY BLAIR/GORDON BROWN....DIE! |
| 3439 | victoria parsons | |
| 3440 | Gloria Jovetic | Is all this talk going anywhere, our liberties have been taken away day by day the next step is a police state, just a thought we are already run by one.
BEWARE WHAT IS NEXT. |
| 3441 | PETER HOLMES | Where is our normal British compromise? Look at the rest of Europe, at least they are looking at alternatives. |
| 3442 | Angela Morgan | I live in Wales and feel that the smoking ban has caused a major rift in communities |
| 3443 | Anonymous | |
| 3444 | Edward King | I wont be voting Labour next time round.... |
| 3445 | Penman Stuart Worthington | |
| 3446 | Anonymous | |
| 3447 | Anonymous | I am fed up with being treated as a second class citizen because I choose to smoke. Banishing smokers from pubs and clubs reeks of 'apartied'...
Why is it OK for this government to target another minority yet still take money from them? |
| 3448 | Anonymous | Finally, how refreshing to encounter many others who feel the same way I do, in this increasingly overly politically correct society where one dare not speak ones mind! It's sad that society is becoming increasingly intolerent.
I agree, this blanket ban is going too far, yet another example of the government interfering more and more in our personal lives. So what DO we pay taxes for?!!
I don't see why they can't let the owners and their customers decide whether an establishment is to be smoking or non-smoking. That would be the civilised thing to do. It makes one wonder, what next? Banning alcohol and junk food? Why doesn't the government get its priorities right - like sorting out the mess they made in Iraq - again another decision made against the wishes of the people. |
| 3449 | Robert Asch | |
| 3450 | Mattias Svensson | |
