HW: HW off smoking in public venues

[Muad'Dib]

tobacco brownies? :)


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From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
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Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: HW: HW off smoking in public venues


> Muad'Dib writes:
>
>> if there are smoking areas they should include a provision for industrial
>> level ventilation.
>
> That seems to work well in parts of the US.
>
> It could have worked here too. The problem is that "nonsmoking areas"
> had been set up in pubs in ways such that nobody explained to the smoke
> that it wasn't supposed to travel to the immediately adjacent and
> non-separated nonsmoking areas. After years of this the bars, faced with
> the ban, are whining that they could set up proper smoking areas with
> real separate ventilation, nobody believes a word of it. I think a
> separate problem in Scotland is that once winter sets in, the bars tend
> to switch off all ventilation because it drags in cold air and forces
> either much higher heating costs or the punters leaving because it's too
> cold.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, people can take whatever drugs they please.
> They simply have the responsibility not to dose or otherwise
> inconvenience others through their drug use. Smoking in public clearly
> breaks both those caveats. If someone should want to wear a nicotine
> patch or take snuff in public, I'd have no objection. If the bars want
> to keep selling nicotine, perhaps they should figure out how to put it
> into a drink. If it's possible to make cannabis tea and beer, what's the
> problem with using tobacco leaves instead?
>
> FoFP
>