----- Original Message ----- From: "David Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "canals list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: [canals-list] Smoking (possibly verging towards the offtopic)
> Steve Haywood writes: >> At this moment the awnings are going up all over Britain. >> We shall not see them taken down again in our lifetimes. > > I bet we do. I believe I heard that the EU is considering > banning the habit of people congregating around office > entrances and smoking. How long before they make it > illegal to leave a pub for a smoke? > > As a non-smoker I find it incredibly offensive that if I > want to sit in the garden of a pub where smoking is > already banned (and there are now a lot of these), I > have to suffer the passive smoke of those who wish to kill > themselves with the poisonous weed. I reckon smoking > should be banned in pub gardens. > > There was an article in the Times (IIRC) the other day saying > that soon society will regard it as unacceptable to smoke > anywhere and the only people who will still do it will be > horrid fat tattooed burger-guzzling chavs. > > Dave > As smoking is a legal activity I find it offensive that it is banned. I think this is a grave infringement of civil liberties and I don't smoke. Owners of establishments should be able to say if they wish to be smoking or non smoking and then their staff and customers can choose which they frequent. Banning a legal activity is the start of a very slippery slope. Sue nb Nackered Navvy
