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What now for smoking?

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    What now for smoking?

    Now you can't smoke anywhere but in rain-soaked streets do we think that smoking will gradually die out?

    I reckon that as the smokers gradually die out (literally) there will be much less uptake from young uns - I mean you don't look cool stood in wet pub doorways do you?

    Seems like common sense will eventually prevail when people think how much they are paying to basically look sad.

    #2
    But then Gordo will realise that he's losing a load of cash from people not smoking, and then work out a way to introduce smoking back into the population.

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      #3
      Just thinking how sad clint eastwood used to look chomping on that cigar in all those westerns. If only he got out his tofu bar, and whipped the baddies around the head with his handbag
      I remember the good old days of this site when people used to moan about serious contractor related issues like house prices and immigration. How times have changed!?

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        #4
        Originally posted by Shimano105
        Now you can't smoke anywhere but in rain-soaked streets do we think that smoking will gradually die out?

        I reckon that as the smokers gradually die out (literally) there will be much less uptake from young uns - I mean you don't look cool stood in wet pub doorways do you?

        Seems like common sense will eventually prevail when people think how much they are paying to basically look sad.
        Well, for a lot of youngsters, standing around in dark alleys or outside off licences or bus shelters in all weathers smoking either a fag or a spliff doesn't seem to do their sense of 'cool' any harm.

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          #5
          It will die out as we are going to ban it...have you not read the poll? We are going to ban everything, including bans on bans.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Let-Me-In
            It will die out as we are going to ban it...have you not read the poll? We are going to ban everything, including bans on bans.
            Let's have a ban on polls!
            It's Deja-vu all over again!

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              #7
              Originally posted by KathyWoolfe
              Let's have a ban on polls!

              And French, and Lithuanians...Oh, I see, you mean
              polls, not Poles!!!

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                #8
                I reckon they should change this emoticon to include an umbrella now

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Shimano105
                  I reckon that as the smokers gradually die out (literally) there will be much less uptake from young uns - I mean you don't look cool stood in wet pub doorways do you?
                  Can't tell you how many young (ie: under 18's) I see smoking on the train platform. Smoking will always be cool amongst the teens and possibly even pre-teens. Obviously the message that the earlier you start, the worse you get hooked, the greater chance of lung cancer and eventual death.
                  McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
                  Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Numptycorner
                    Just thinking how sad clint eastwood used to look chomping on that cigar in all those westerns. If only he got out his tofu bar, and whipped the baddies around the head with his handbag
                    Clint Eastwood has been a life-long non smoker apart from the cigar in the movies.
                    "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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