Smoking Ban
Now I’m not a smoker, I never have been (unless you count sheesha, but I’ve given that up) and I never will be.
So I was delightfully surprised when the count down to July 1st (the England smoke ban) finally began. It was great. All I could think about is finally going into a public place without having to breathe in someone else’s future lung cancer.
Now when the day came (woohoo) I read the morning news paper on the train and was disgusted at smoker’s reaction to this long awaited ban!
You see these idiotic mindless drones that don’t have enough will power to fill an egg cup, decided to smoke about 5 cigarettes at once, before the midnight hour struck and the ban would force them to cease smoking indoors, or face a £200 fine!
To this day I’ve wondered, what the hell was going through their minds??????
I mean it was probably something along the lines of “oh no, they’re increasing my life span – I better smoke as many death sticks and kill myself by tonight instead”
I don’t get it really… what’s so bad about going outside to have a smoke and taking a little extra time in giving yourself lung cancer. I’m pretty sure the weather in July isn’t going to give you pneumonia.
Frankly I think those twits who can’t handle taking a cigarette outside, should all be deported to another country – how about Zimbabwe!!
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Now even though I love the smoking ban, I have to say – I don’t like walking along my local high street anymore.
You see because of the £200 fine which has got every smoking chav/rudeboy/mindless drone shaking in their oversized jeans, they’ve all decided that spending time indoors is now a waste of time in which they could instead all be covered in a gigantic cloud of emphysema!
I know what your thinking – only 4 paragraphs ago I was all for these twits going outside to have a smoke and I still am. It just annoys me when I’m walking to the train station and I’m suddenly hit by a very dark cloud, on a bright and sunny august morning – that dark cloud being a puff of smoke coming from a fat lady who managed to hoist her self on top of a wheelie bin lid.
And to top it all off, our government, who has been working so hard to stop global warming, has now come across a way to give us clean air indoors and contribute to the destruction of the earths atmosphere, all in one!
And to that I say congratulations Tony Blair, you’ve left us knowing that you don’t have just one brain cell – you have 2
the definition of a cigarette: a stick with a fire at one end, and an idiot at the other
by Saahil Chatoo
very provocative article! I must agree, cigarettes are harmful, disgusting, and horrible habit to have. Would be interesting to see a smoker’s perpective on the ban.
clearly you are very passionate about this ban…keep on writing!
Bit of a push to say smokers have an effect on global warming; you’d need to smoke a helluva lot of cigarettes to have anywhere near the impact of even one car.
I agree somewhat with the smoking ban, but moaning about people lighting up outside is a bit rich. It’s their street just as much as yours and TBH what’s the alternative? What would you prefer to happen? The banning of smoking everywhere?
I agree! “Passive smokers” will still be created and affected despite the smoking ban – the streets are often full of smoke!