While I don't smoke I do feel sorry for the groups of refugees we now see outside buildings - often in the freezing cold - puffing away for their few minutes of relief. Some tourist areas have them round the back on the canal side - it looks positively messy as in ' posh front, beyond the pale at the back out of sight round by the dustbins'. Still I am beyond the pale as I am fat - another major vice according to our government and those in power who would brainwash us into being thin and vice free. Watch out - it could be public drinking next. Strangely enough while you are (still) allowed to smoke in our town you are not allowed to carry with a view to drinking in the street in it. The forces of darkness are coming to a place near you! - On Fri, 2/20/09, rb999sb <[email protected]> wrote:
From: rb999sb <[email protected]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Braunston's Admiral Nelson closes To: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 5:36 PM --- In canals-list@ yahoogroups. com, David Sullivan <david_vince_ sullivan@ ...> wrote: > > Of course, one downside of the smoking ban is that if you > want to go in the pub garden in the summer it's full of > morons puffing away at the dreaded stinkweed. > > BTW I'm going to my county's CAMRA pub of the year tonight. > It'll have five real ales on (at least one will be a mild, > a porter or a stout), it does excellent food and it lets > dogs in. It'll be crammed with people. > If they can do it why can't others? > > Dave > NB Hic!! > I object to the language. Smokers may have been pushed outside by the objectors but I see no reason why they should then be called names. Smoking is a personal choice and isn't an illegal activity. We should all have a freedom of choice. I choose not to smoke as I choose not to partake of some other activities. Sue [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
