Smoking Ban in Scotland

[tree_and_leaf]

The ban on smoking in public indoors comes into effect in Scotland on Sunday. I think it's a good thing, for the selfish reason that cigarette smoke makes me cough. (I am waiting for our chapel choir, who by and large don't like incense, to start making cracks about anti-smoke legistlation, though...)

The public seems, on the whole, to support it, as far as I can see.

But I was amused by the comment of a pub-goer on Newsdrive (the BBC Radio Scotland evening news programme): "Ach, I think it's fine. The pub'll just be for drinking and talking about football, and that's how it should be."

Comments

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

I am so madly happy that smoking is illegal in bars in both New York and New Haven now, so that I can go out and booze without coming home and having to burn everything, and without having horrific allergic reactions, as well. And my highly developed sense of Schadenfreude enjoys seeing people smoking out in the freezing cold. =)

[themolesmother.livejournal.com]

If anyone suggested a smoking ban here in France there'd be rioting in the streets. None of our local restaurants even have no-smoking areas yet.

The only buildings I've been in in France that are totally smoke-free are hospitals. One of the weirdest things I saw while visiting a local clinic for chemo was huddles of patients attached to chemo drips puffing away outside the front door.

Our B&B is no-smoking indoors, although we do allow guests to smoke on the terrace. The only guests that routinely ignore the ban are (you've guessed it) the French ones.

MM