Taking the government to court over the smoking ban please help

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[color=red]WE NEED DONATIONS, please just a £1, £10, £100 or even £1000000.

I've skimmed through this thread and all I see if you asking us for money on every post - What is this, links for sale? Canny get a scam goin on the new boards now unlike the old for sale days. Fags kill you nutter!

[LIP]

I think all this effort should be used to get weed legal - tobacco doesnt deserve any money being spent on it - and i used to be a 40 a day./

[Divadish]

Now that tobacco is effectively illegal in public places (except when there is clear sky above you i.e. no roof ) does anyone in their right mind think that the government is actually going to overturn an existing law and legalise weed .... not a fu"*in chance . We needed tobacco out in the open to use as a yardstick to point out the relative harmlessness of MJ in comparison to tobacco.I also think that some of you are missing the point ,no one is actually bigging up cigs it,s the freedom of choice that,s being fought for,anyway i could go on for ages about the civil liberty issues but i'll be going over things i've posted before.One last point,my grandfather survived the D-day landings and since my grandmother died does not have much of a life apart from going to his local working mens club 3 times a week for a few pints and cigs, as of July 1st this will no longer be possible due to the ban and to think this gentleman put his life on the line in the name of democracy.

[PsychoticEpisode]

I've been smoking for over twenty years now. I don't smoke around non-smokers any more and go outside to smoke at home. I absolutely support the ban on smoking in public places, smokers have a right to damage their own health, if they still want the nicotine in public they can chew gum or put on patches.

[PsychoticEpisode]

Now that tobacco is effectively illegal in public places (except when there is clear sky above you i.e. no roof ) does anyone in their right mind think that the government is actually going to overturn an existing law and legalise weed

I don't think that legalisation of weed is remotely likely for the forseable future in the UK. If it ever does happen though, a public smoking ban would be essential. I don't want to be wandering around the town centre with my family with idiots smoking weed on every corner trying to steer them away from the clouds of smoke.

If any kind of smoking was allowed in public places and cannabis was decriminalised, this would happen.

[amberler]

I don't think that legalisation of weed is remotely likely for the forseable future in the UK. If it ever does happen though, a public smoking ban would be essential. I don't want to be wandering around the town centre with my family with idiots smoking weed on every corner trying to steer them away from the clouds of smoke.

If any kind of smoking was allowed in public places and cannabis was decriminalised, this would happen.

Too true I am afraid.

In the summer my local pub is like an Amsterdam Coffee Garden. Landlord does not mind though he sells a lot of food.

[Nightcrewman]

I enjoy guns always have done but my freedom of choice is restricted to where I can use them.
I also enjoy scratching my arse but would you want me doing it in front of you as you are having lunch in a resturant.





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" if you have a problem with smoking then dont sit next to a person that smokes simple as that"

Does that apply to my statement "If you dont want to get shot then dont come near me when I have a gun"

Cheers NCM


PS Right, I am off to vote now,

[Divadish]

Licensed premises a'la pubs/clubs for consumption of tobacco and cannabis related products keeping smokers off the streets out of view of the kids.We banned tobacco advertising so as not to influence children but come July kids will see adults smoking more than ever before due to smokers being forced on to the streets as they have no where else to go . My next point is this...i do not have a car ( by choice ) but my next door neighbour has three (one a 4x4 ) when they get into their cars i don't mouth off about my right to clean air ( incidentally pollution induced asthma in children is higher than ever and still rising) no i go my way realising that in a supposed democracy we all have freedom of choice (apparently) some might say a tenuous argument but to me a very valid one none the less. And one final point , the smoking ban will not cover everywhere as the houses of parliament will not come under this ban, yes the only ones who will be able to smoke in licensed premises will be the people who passed this legislation in the first place , how's that for bigotry. I agree with some of you on one point and that is i also do not see decriminalisation of cannabis for a long time so it looks like we will all be skulking around in the shadows for the next 20 years.

[Nightcrewman]

Sounds good to me but highly unlikely to succeed as our goverment is totaly incapable of thinking sensibly, vote today to change things.

Cheers NCM

"IN MY POSTING I NOT SURE IF I MADE MYSELF CLEAR, but what we are lobbying for and taking the UK Government to court for is â??NOTâ?� to stop the smoking ban, â??butâ?� for an amendment, which would allow separate smoking rooms with filtration and ventilation, this is fair and non-biased,"

[amberler]

"IN MY POSTING I NOT SURE IF I MADE MYSELF CLEAR, but what we are lobbying for and taking the UK Government to court for is â??NOTâ?� to stop the smoking ban, â??butâ?� for an amendment, which would allow separate smoking rooms with filtration and ventilation, this is fair and non-biased,"

If pubs etc had got their arses into gear and done this already then maybe the smoking ban wouldn't have been so far reaching.

On the plus side nipping out the pub for a 'smoke' is now going to look for less suspicious.