Smoking Ban

How's it going down there for you lot since they started the ban? Very surprised to read from BIGINOIL's post that it was "largely ignored" at the recent Mondays gig. Wouldn't happen up here. Stewards actually went on stage at The Streets gig at the Academy and told the boy Skinner that it would be show-over if one of his backing band didn't stop smoking. And did someone from these very boards not get flung out the New Order gig at said venue for the same crime?

That said the ban has been almost impeccably observed by everyone since March last year. The Glasgow enforcement team haven't issued one fine since it all started. Not seen or heard of anyone chancing a crafty fag, and I spend a fair portion of my week in pubs and clubs. Are people really ignoring it down there?

I think it's bizarre that it's taken so long to bring in such a common-sense bit of legislation. Unbelievable that bar/club/resto staff have been subjected to passive smoking for so many years. And all the bluster from the licensed trade about how it's gonna end in pubs shutting down has proved to be utter bollocks. According to the SLTA's own figures turnover and spend per-heead actually increased in the last twelve months.

It is, without question, the greatest thing to happen to this country in my lifetime.

I've not seen any hint of folks ignoring the ban so far... Not really even any annoyance over it from smokers... Just a fact of life now... My local's got lights and heaters and a covered (though wall-less) area in the beer garden, so even in winter it shouldn't be that much of a problem if you want a fag... Not sure if my local actually smells any better inside though...

Snorri xxx

A certain "celebrity DJ" managed to skin up in the gents with the window open when we played The Arches with him in September :) he was slightly fearful of getting caught though!

oldmonkey wrote: A certain "celebrity DJ" managed to skin up in the gents with the window open when we played The Arches with him in September :) he was slightly fearful of getting caught though!

What toilets in The Arches have windows in them? It's 20 foot under Central Station! And are the dressing rooms not downstairs again?

Anyway, doubt if said "celebrity DJ" will be smoking much now.

The Wetherspoons smelt great the other day, only cos the air con and extractors were on full blast though. Everywhere else i've been in stinks of stale ale, sweat or onions...

GlasVegas wrote:

oldmonkey wrote: A certain "celebrity DJ" managed to skin up in the gents with the window open when we played The Arches with him in September :) he was slightly fearful of getting caught though!

What toilets in The Arches have windows in them? It's 20 foot under Central Station! And are the dressing rooms not downstairs again?

Anyway, doubt if said "celebrity DJ" will be smoking much now.

Yes, they are two flights down, but there was a window to a narrow flue about 18" wide that had daylight.

oldmonkey wrote:

GlasVegas wrote:

oldmonkey wrote: A certain "celebrity DJ" managed to skin up in the gents with the window open when we played The Arches with him in September :) he was slightly fearful of getting caught though!

What toilets in The Arches have windows in them? It's 20 foot under Central Station! And are the dressing rooms not downstairs again?

Anyway, doubt if said "celebrity DJ" will be smoking much now.

Yes, they are two flights down, but there was a window to a narrow flue about 18" wide that had daylight.

You found the magic window!!! It's Narnia through there.

As has been mentioned before, the one downside of the smoking ban is that pubs all smell of farts, BO and stale lager. All quite bad to put up with but none of which give you cancer (with the exception of those really bad Guiness farts).

A godsend for non smokers, a pain in the arse for smokers. When we actually get some decent weather however im sure the non smokers will have a moan about everyone sitting outside smoking.

It's a Godsend to be able to spend an hour in a pub and not come out stinking like a fucking ashtray, but I imagine such rules will continue to be casually flaunted at gigs - especially all-standing ones like The Ritz.

After all, if there's - say - 50 folk smoking in the middle of a packed-out gig, how exactly are the much-smaller-in-numbers security types going to stop them all without it kicking off?

Doctor Clayhead wrote: It's a Godsend to be able to spend an hour in a pub and not come out stinking like a fucking ashtray, but I imagine such rules will continue to be casually flaunted at gigs - especially all-standing ones like The Ritz.

After all, if there's - say - 50 folk smoking in the middle of a packed-out gig, how exactly are the much-smaller-in-numbers security types going to stop them all without it kicking off?

The only places I've even heard of it being an issue is at gig venues. And in that situation the meathead security will just wade right in and cart the offenders out the door. Punters can have a go if they like but I've yet to see a drunk punter come any better than second place in an argument with bouncers.

As I said, it happened to someone from here at the last NO gig in the Glasgow Academy, cant remember who though.

Steve One makes a good point though, all the beer gardens round my way are now being spoiled by stinky smokers!

Actually, i got a tap on the back for lighting up at Bournemouth...

a polite tap, mind.

Think its a bit much that you can't smoke in a pub anymore. Luckily i'm a non-smoker anyway.

ShugZViking wrote: It's a fucking joke.

First experienced it in New Yoik back in 2003, which wasnae too bad cos it was 30 degrees outside.

Then Glasgow last year for New Order was a cunt, I ignored it inside the venue, but back at the nightclub, me and Nickos Kingos were up and down them 3 flights of stairs every 10 bastard minutes.

Now it's hit here and it's a cunt.

Drink'll be banned next. Mark my words.

The world's gone mad.

Fucking mad.

Cunts.

Agreed!

The stench inside nightclubs (all that sweat - haven't people heard of deodorants?, stale beer, puke, farts)... Okay, they don't give you cancer, but for fucks sake!

Also, with everybody have to smoke outside (of a club/pub), then for those living near/opposite the venue, their nights are going to be a lot noisier from now on... What happens in Scotland with that - are there lots of complaints?

So, yeah, it's a pain in the butt (pun intended!) - the thing I don't get is why ban it on train station platforms (open air)???????

Facists. People have a right to smoke... it looks cool

Just gonna pop to my house for a fag and a pint

Also heard of one landlord who makes non smokers go outside for 10 minutes every hour to "even the score"

The same people also say:

the ban's made no difference here.

stay behinds = ashtrays come out.

Nick King wrote:

ShugZViking wrote: It's a fucking joke.

First experienced it in New Yoik back in 2003, which wasnae too bad cos it was 30 degrees outside.

Then Glasgow last year for New Order was a cunt, I ignored it inside the venue, but back at the nightclub, me and Nickos Kingos were up and down them 3 flights of stairs every 10 bastard minutes.

Now it's hit here and it's a cunt.

Drink'll be banned next. Mark my words.

The world's gone mad.

Fucking mad.

Cunts.

Agreed!

The stench inside nightclubs (all that sweat - haven't people heard of deodorants?, stale beer, puke, farts)... Okay, they don't give you cancer, but for fucks sake!

Also, with everybody have to smoke outside (of a club/pub), then for those living near/opposite the venue, their nights are going to be a lot noisier from now on... What happens in Scotland with that - are there lots of complaints?

So, yeah, it's a pain in the butt (pun intended!) - the thing I don't get is why ban it on train station platforms (open air)???????

Thirded!

Im all in favour of smoking onlky being permitted in a small part of a pub and not at the bar, but this is just using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut

And the tiny, ventilated sections at airports (Gatwick being the one that springs to mind first) They really didnt hurt anyone and before a 10 hour flight, i hardly think a quick tab is too much to ask

Im gonna end up a Daily chuffing Mail reader the way im going

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh...but have you not seen the news release today???

Smoking may help prevent Parkinsons...bit of a bastard though, would you rather die from the cancer, or have your brain turn to mush and die with the shakes...

fuck it, give us a fag any day...

With all that headrolling and hand shaking how the fuck do they manage to light up in the first place??????

FATS wrote:

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh...but have you not seen the news release today???

Smoking may help prevent Parkinsons...bit of a bastard though, would you rather die from the cancer, or have your brain turn to mush and die with the shakes...

fuck it, give us a fag any day...

With all that headrolling and hand shaking how the fuck do they manage to light up in the first place??????

That's really cruel.

GlasVegas wrote:

As has been mentioned before, the one downside of the smoking ban is that pubs all smell of farts, BO and stale lager.

And Piss

When I saw the Mondays in Aberdeen, Ryder was clearly desperate for a snout. "£15 grand if I light up" he moaned. Then didn't.

The girl who was standing behind me did though. And it was a reefer. As I hinted in my earlier post though, I also saw the same girl share an E with her mate and also enjoy a dab of coke.

Daft as it sounds though, at least pills and coke don't affect other people like cigarettes do...

BIGINOIL wrote:

GlasVegas wrote:

As has been mentioned before, the one downside of the smoking ban is that pubs all smell of farts, BO and stale lager.

And Piss

When I saw the Mondays in Aberdeen, Ryder was clearly desperate for a snout. "£15 grand if I light up" he moaned. Then didn't.

The girl who was standing behind me did though. And it was a reefer. As I hinted in my earlier post though, I also saw the same girl share an E with her mate and also enjoy a dab of coke.

Daft as it sounds though, at least pills and coke don't affect other people like cigarettes do...

MAH

Move to Stoke, they've not banned smoking yet.