tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post965888478046266476..comments2023-10-10T12:58:12.844+00:00Comments on CORPORATE PRESENTER: Quote of the DayJeremy Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-85809522871883860382007-05-06T12:52:00.000+00:002007-05-06T12:52:00.000+00:00Here in my area of the U.S., city officials a few ...Here in my area of the U.S., city officials a few years ago forced businesses to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up separate smoking sections so non-smokers wouldn't be bothered by second-hand smoke. Now, despite the huge cash outlay by those businesses, our city fathers have decided no one can smoke in any public place.<BR/><BR/>It's a witch hunt, pure and simple.<BR/><BR/>To Welshcakes Limoncello above, I have to ask: works well for who? All those people who are never going to get sick or die because they don't smoke?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-35460055054134310212007-05-03T19:44:00.000+00:002007-05-03T19:44:00.000+00:00I must be very dull, then. as I'm for the smoking ...I must be very dull, then. as I'm for the smoking ban. It has been in place in Italy for about 3 years and works well in a country where more people smoke than in the UK.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-39499876998671177622007-05-03T18:31:00.000+00:002007-05-03T18:31:00.000+00:00Of course, how silly of me to overlook that.Of course, how silly of me to overlook that.Jeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-19486447149561913842007-05-03T18:00:00.000+00:002007-05-03T18:00:00.000+00:00Ingsoc is "English Socialism" in Orwell's 1984.Ingsoc is "English Socialism" in Orwell's 1984.Shadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777836927500400430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-74323225373000703702007-05-03T12:17:00.000+00:002007-05-03T12:17:00.000+00:00Exactly CbyIBTW, what does Crushed bY Ingsoc actua...Exactly CbyI<BR/><BR/>BTW, what does Crushed bY Ingsoc actually mean?<BR/><BR/>Crushed by...........<BR/><BR/>Idle Nudists Gathering Snowflakes On Christmas?Jeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-14695343149874285562007-05-03T12:06:00.000+00:002007-05-03T12:06:00.000+00:00As a smoker, I think this ban is NULAB all over.If...As a smoker, I think this ban is NULAB all over.<BR/>If you don't like drinking in smoky pubs, don't go to them.<BR/>People can't care too much or simple market economics would have provided a brace of no smoking pubs.Crushedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-13710568144982408072007-05-02T17:02:00.000+00:002007-05-02T17:02:00.000+00:00JuliaI certainly have to agree with you. But up to...Julia<BR/><BR/>I certainly have to agree with you. But up to a point only. <BR/><BR/>Can't see much wrong with someone smoking a pipe in a country pub somewhere.Jeremy Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02014279463894807064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-36090566998958837792007-05-02T16:29:00.000+00:002007-05-02T16:29:00.000+00:00Tsk. Get off the fence, Jeremy!Tsk. Get off the fence, Jeremy!Bill Haydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08357811679771159469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-85253088021587398392007-05-02T15:28:00.000+00:002007-05-02T15:28:00.000+00:00Hm. Smoking ban can't come quick enough AFAIAC. Ca...Hm. Smoking ban can't come quick enough AFAIAC. Can't wait to be able to go to the pub and not come back coughing and stinking like an ash tray!Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05979321535612745986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24054844.post-91027502198886219342007-05-02T12:17:00.000+00:002007-05-02T12:17:00.000+00:00as a smoker, I agree.To me the whole thing strikes...as a smoker, I agree.<BR/>To me the whole thing strikes of totalitarianism. Whatever happened to FOREST- Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco?Crushedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.com