Smokers banned again

When the government said that no longer could we enjoy a cigarette with our pint in a pub and from now on we would have to sit outside with the dogs and children, it wasnt that great, but it did make sense . We had our own designated areas but the smoke did waft over to where non-smokers were sitting and talking about banning smoking. Then it would about face and waft over to where people were eating and that was no good either.

I have no sense of smell, but I am told smoke stinks, and so I can appreciate that people who didn’t smoke didn’t want to smell of cigarettes. I doubt smokers themselves want to smell of smoke. The haze that began eight feet into the air and reached to the ceiling in clubs has also gone, which is bound to be a good thing.

So we have been made to go outside and now we endanger nobody but ourselves. If we are lucky enough to have a hut it doesn’t have an attached roof, so the smoke can escape through the shelter and we don’t force other smokers to breathe our smoke. If we are lucky enough to have heaters we are still cold and uncomfortable, but at least we can drink our pints and smoke our cigarettes with our friends, safe in knowledge that we are not harming anyone and we can go back in once we have finished smoking. But perhaps not for much longer.

Apparently they are going to review and possibly further the ban to include beer gardens amongst other things. Beer gardens?! The problem used to be that because of confined spaces smoke couldn’t escape and so passive smoking was unavoidable. They sorted that out in 2007! They banned us, made passive smoking impossible and left us with fewer rights than we had before. Now that is not a problem however, I suppose it was only a matter of time before they stopped letting smokers do other things that they enjoy. Doctors are even talking about banning us from smoking in our own cars. I won’t quit.

Ban the banned