| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 3451 | michael hartley | ive always been a law abiding citizen.but since this ban ive stopped recyl,ing paper bottles cans etc. dont use street bins any more,just goes on the ground,dont use pubs any more we all have house parties,never thought id live under a dictatorship in this country, keep up the good work cheers |
| 3452 | Ray Etheridge | I believe as adults we should be allowed the choice to go into a smoking pub or not. |
| 3453 | karen smallman | I am considering leaving this ridiculous country. |
| 3454 | Debi Miller | |
| 3455 | Anonymous | freedom for all to choose |
| 3456 | Pam Good | |
| 3457 | JoLynn McMahon | No smoking in public places is fine, but in bars and clubs I feel each owner should be able to make his own choice.
Alcohol and tobbacco have been around since the time of Christ. Just give us some space.
If tabbacco is legal to sell than we should have a choice,besides no one under 21 years of age should be in a bar. |
| 3458 | lori west | can I back my car into my driveway? |
| 3459 | Diana Lewis | What is happening to our so called "Land of the free"??????? |
| 3460 | d rankin | stop the madness. keep goverment out of our lives. |
| 3461 | david bassett | there should be smoking and none smoking rooms in a pub freedom of choice. this smacks of natzisiam |
| 3462 | Anonymous | once again destroying the british way of life |
| 3463 | Anonymous | I am always being told that I am a 'very considerate' smoker - I don't believe in imposing my smoking habit on others who choose not to be in a smoking environment - HOWEVER (!) - to practically force any smoker to go almost 'cold turkey' like this is inhumane. I don't smoke much - but do enjoy the few odd 'relaxing' cigarettes I have - now - it is impossible to smoke in a relaxed way anywhere (unless you are very lucky and live alone in your own 'owned' home - though, no doubt, this will be made illegal too, soon!). |
| 3464 | Kenneth D. Amick | Since such an enormous amount of financing to support the smoking ban movement comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and since the RWJF has financial ties to Johnson & Johnson which manufactures and sell smoking-cessation products and drugs, it appears that large and heavily vested financial interests are at work in the smoking ban movement. As well, since the argument that second hand smoke is a cause of disease has been based on junk science and falsified data, there IS a class action lawsuit for an enterprising law firm. Get to it. |
| 3465 | Ian Henderson | |
| 3466 | Anonymous | I like to think of the goverment as becoming a communist run organization for the United States, telling us what we can and can't do. It is time we the people stood up to the goverment who makes laws without our say. Land of the shackled!!!!!!!! |
| 3467 | jilly | Too many lcal pubs are being forced to close due to smoking ban - give landlords and smokers back the CHOICE! |
| 3468 | Stephen N. Stride | Ex-pat: Thank goodness! |
| 3469 | tony duckmanton | repeal this ridiculous law, its non-democratic and i worry that this law will be just the start of a neo-facistic state... |
| 3470 | Rebecca Bolton | unless you pay my taxes for me,
stay out of my business! |
| 3471 | Anonymous | |
| 3472 | Anonymous | I will never vote labour again.The smoking ban is crazy. |
| 3473 | Ethel Rickard | America is GONE!!!!!! Along with the rest of the world! |
| 3474 | Russell Tucker | |
| 3475 | Sandra Jupp | Licensees should not be given the task of law enforcement. |
| 3476 | Kevin Atkins | This draconian legislation is a sad indictment of the nasty, intolerant and illiberal society that we are becoming. A radical rethink is needed; the incumbent government is unlikely to deliver, so I pin my hopes on a credible alternative. |
| 3477 | Suzy Gale | I smoke, I don't want to inflict my smoke on others I just want somewhere to be able to have a cigarette in comfort without upsetting anyone. I now believe we live in a total police state. |
| 3478 | Sheila Bransfield | No one smokes where others are eating. The previous system worked well - if a pub or bar was smoking and you don't smoke, you didn't go in. You found a non-smoking bar. |
| 3479 | Liam Thomas | |
| 3480 | Margaret Sheldrick | |
| 3481 | Rozanne Duncan | Crazy country, crazy government, crazy laws. |
| 3482 | Beverley Eden | Bravo ! |
| 3483 | valerie cordery | |
| 3484 | Grant french | This government is on a crusade to destroy the British way of life. |
| 3485 | Anonymous | |
| 3486 | Anonymous | |
| 3487 | sandra | this goverment dont care about people just care about control |
| 3488 | Jon Ivins | Totally agree with the petition; record number of pubs going bust, hardly anyone in the ones that are just surviving, etc. This anti-smoking legislation is a disaster for the pub/club trade, their customers and the liberty of all and should be repealed. |
| 3489 | rashid abbas | |
| 3490 | wendy smith | although i am fully aware of the dangers of second hand smoke i belive strongly in the freedom to chose we have proved repeatedly that banning substances (especially addictive ones) does not work there are millions of drug users despite decades of these being illegal i am a law abiding citizen who is being forced into risky situations just to smoke. I must stand alone in the street in the small hours because my work place bans me from smoking within 300 yards and i work nights. i must leave my drink to be spiked putting me at risk of robbery rape and assult just to go outside and smoke i am being marginalised in a country which i have worked hard for. i pay huge amounts of tax on ciggarettes and in my wages and never use the NHS nor have i ever claimed bemifits if and when i get cancer i will blaim no one but myself but i belive i will have paid for my treatment 100 times over |
| 3491 | john mcstay | if we all lie down anymore then we might as well call ourselves yanks and become the capitalist slaves these mothers are dying to create- time to rise up- remember poll tax |
| 3492 | j edwards | |
| 3493 | Kim Piper | they got the ban and now their pushing for me! why?! smoking gives this country so much money so just let us smoke!! |
| 3494 | Andrea carpenter | I no longer go to public places since the smoking ban. i suffer with anxiety and used to smoke in the pub to calm me down. Now I can't do this I simpley dont go to pubs or resturants. The Law makes smoking legal many years ago and now the government is trying to wipe it out with a smoking ban. They should of thought about that when they take a cut from profits of cigarettes! |
| 3495 | John McQuaigue | If Government takes my liberty without my consent then it is no longer democracy. Any politicians that purports they are democratic or representative and erodes peoples liberty is showing contempt for democracy itself and should resign his/her office. |
| 3496 | Robert Steele | It will be less bloody if you allow freedom to reign now, instead of
later. |
| 3497 | Bruce Kean | England is not on your list of countries! |
| 3498 | Peter Dawes | To Caroline Flint, Harriet Harman and all you interfering do-gooders: Thanks for destroying the British pub, one of our last fine institutions. |
| 3499 | cher kershaw | there was nothing wrong with a seperate room for smokers.
Save your local pub. |
| 3500 | clare stokes | This ban will have to be lifted. Its discrimination against smokers, I don't see why there cannot just be non smokings pubs and smoking pubs if needs be. |
