Hooray for the smoking ban!

I am so happy that the smoking ban has finally come into force! I went into my local pub on Sunday night and it really did make a difference. Which ever way you look at this, it is definitely a positive thing and people who argue differently, I think are absolutely crazy!

It makes me so angry when I hear comments such as, ‘If people don’t want to smoke then they can choose not to go in a pub’. Pubs are more than just a smoking hole, the local pub is a national institution and an important meeting point of many a community, so why should the non-smoker be excluded from that?

I hate the old classic line, ‘It is my human right to choose if I smoke’. Quite frankly this statement is absolutely ridiculous. You can smoke you silly people, no one has ever said you can’t! Just go outside and poison yourself and leave everyone else who has chosen not to smoke out of it! I used to work in a pub which I did enjoy. However the customers seemed to think, that as they were in a pub they could blow their smoke wherever they liked including in my face which didn’t really give me the right to choose if I smoked.

We are all well aware of the harmful effects that smoke can cause, so for people to moan that it is unfair to be made to go outside I think is completely selfish and just plain ignorant.

Emma