Public smoking becomes illegal in Toronto starting tomorrow

Tim Carmichael

Having buried both of my parents due to smoking related illnesses, OH HAPPY DAY! :-D

Eytukan

Smitha Vijayan wrote:

Public smoking becomes illegal in Toronto starting tomorrow

And you have any message for Nish with this?:~

Smitha Nishant

No! :-D He almost quit smoking! Cheers Smitha

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Rage

This is awesome. I am very anxious that they do the same in France, so that I can again go to a bar/pub without being smoked dead. ~RaGE();

Nish Nishant

VuNic wrote:

And you have any message for Nish with this?

I've pretty much quit smoking. In the last 6 months, I may have smoked 10 cigarettes in total, that too when a smoker friend has offered one to me, and I didn't want to seem rude by saying no. Regards, Nish

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Nish Nishant

Looks like there are only 2 places where a smoker can legally smoke. 1. Inside his/her apartment. 2. Inside his/her car. Regards, Nish

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brianwelsch

can't someone simply open up a non-smoking pub? BW

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Eytukan

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

when a smoker friend has offered one to me,

Smitha, I think you need some enquiry here ! :-D Surprised that you used to smoke(You look like a good boy:rolleyes:), happy that you quit it almost. And did you leave smoking out of compulsion by Smitha ?

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Bassam Abdul Baki

I hope this catches on. I hate seeing cigarette butts everwhere I go.

Don Miguel

If this act will ban smoking in pubs/bars/restaurants, those places should suffer a decereasing of clients... and will be economically ruined... and in 6 months situation will be corrected by law... and so on... :cool:

brianwelsch

so they should just enforce litter statutes. BW

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Bassam Abdul Baki

And besides any house burning or barbeque. :-D

Maximilien

And also in Quebec !!

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Colin Angus Mackay

Rage wrote:

This is awesome.

Absolutely. Scotland has been smoke free for a few months now. I drove into England last week and I suddenly realised how lucky we are in Scotland because all the motorway service restaurants/cafeterias had smoking sections and it smelled awful. It is amazing that I didn't notice the ban come in to force, but now it is here I am more sensitive to people smoking because I experience their second hand smoke so little these days.

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Smitha Nishant

Not sure. I think people would still go to pubs and restaurants as usual, but they'd probably find some safe corners around where they could smoke without anyone spotting them. - Smitha

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Smitha Nishant

Apparently, passive smoking is very dangerous too. So yes, yay! - Smitha

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Colin Angus Mackay

There were some non-smoking pubs in Scotland before our ban came into force. But most said that becoming non-smoking would kill their business. From what I see the pub I go to most often has increased its business since the ban came in. I guess these businesses are scared that they'll lose customers without realising that there are many more who'd like to be customers but the smoke puts them off.

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Bob Flynn

Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

I didn't want to seem rude by saying no

Maybe your friend should worry about being rude to someone tryng to quit.

charlieg

Having lost a Dad to cancer, have to say smoking is not one of the brighter moves. However, I don't think you really want the government behaving this invasively. It never ends. You think you will be able to smoke in your car/house, then someone will say, "but what about the other people in your house..." and then they'll be in there as well. Having said that, #1 beef with smokers - put your Da$$m butts in your ashtray, don't fling them out the window. Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW.

Colin Angus Mackay

Not so. Scotland has a smoking ban and the pub I go to normally has increased its business since the ban came in. I was worried at first as the first week after the ban it seemed almost dead - but within a couple of weeks it was back to normal and now it is packed, even mid-week.

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog