Smokey & The Bandit

Or rather...Smokey and they Banned It! I'm all for restricting smoking in certain places - restaurants being one of them. No-one likes smoke in your face when you're eating right? Right. Its also good that the government has finally faced up to its responsibities and is acting to ensure the younger generation doesn't get hooked in like many did "back then". Of course the less people that smoke, the more taxes everyone else will pay, but thats not how the propaganda goes. All you have to remember is that smokers are bad people and you have to hate and chastise them whenever you can.

I see Wetherspoons the pub chain have banned smoking in all their pubs. This is ahead of the proposed country-wide ban apparently. Good for them. My local bowling alley has banned smoking outright. Good for them. It's their businesses, they can turn away who they like. Just pump the food and beer prices up...that should cover it.

And now they're talking about introducing bans in all public places? I can live with that and I think we should also ban cars from roads with pavements which actually does more damage to my health as other peoples smoke does.

My point? All things in moderation. Let smokers smoke but give them designated areas like airports tend to. Keeps them out of the way, lets them feed the habit imposed on them "back then" by a greedy heads-in-the-sand government, and saves everyone having to pay the extra taxes.

S!