No Smoking

[Patricia]

As from today (July 1st) there are new anti-smoking laws being introduced in Queensland.

From today onwards, smoking is forbidden in any public place where food or drinks are sold or consumed..be that indoors or outdoors.

I think this is a law that is well overdue..there is nothing worse than going out somewhere for a bite to eat and being smothered in other peoples disgusting second hand smoke.

At least now a night out for a meal wont result in one smelling like the bottom of a filthy ashtray by the time they get home!


Well done Queensland government..about time!

[Luv Angel Musik Babee]

:hehe: I wonder how long it will last? There's been a lot of crap said about this but I think its great. I had the misfortune to be sitting next to this groos dude having a smoke yesterday while I was waiting for my cousin, mind you I was there first and no sign of mesmoking and he sat down and had a smoke and it was white ox *shudders* has anyone smelt that crap? Anyway it kept blowing in my face, was so disgusting but thank god I didn't have Ty with me at that time

[Manda]

LOL white ox tastes worse than it smells tho!

[Luv Angel Musik Babee]

Oh god I hate to imagine how it would taste. My cousins boyfriend smokes it oo, ick but we are heading :ots: sorry :hehe:

[Naomi]

I'm glad the legislation is finally coming in ... NSW is slowly extending it's legislation too - I can't wait until all food areas, indoors and out, are banned here. Nothing worse than a mouthful of ETS with my poached eggs at a cafe :eww:

IMO it's long overdue.

Angie, if I am already there and someone comes and lights up next to me I ask them to leave or put their cigarette out. I have also been known to make snide comments if people are smoking underneath No Smoking signs near hospitals and shopping centre. I am also teaching Hugo to cough madly when we pass someone with a cigarette LMAO and I tell him that smoking is Yucky!

[Patricia]

Well done with the education campaign Naomi, as someone who has spent alot of her working life in Hotels and TABs it really is not a nice environment to work in, especially as I have never ever smoked in my life.

If people choose to smoke that is their problem and I believe they should have enough manners to choose to do it when not in the company of others.

[Luv Angel Musik Babee]

LMAO LMAO LMAO Naomi that would be so cute

[sjc]

Good thing I say. Tasmania have had those laws since early in the year and so far seem to be working well. It is nice to go out for a meal and not have smelly smoke all over you.

[purple_kitten]

I really don't know how people can smoke at all its so feral. Its about time they are doing something about it.

[yomamma]

Rosie and Sally cough to but i didn't teach them they just do it. Lets hope that people abide by the laws.

[sandydee]

i agree with the new laws :yes: and i was a smoker but gave up on my bday only to take them back up when i started having the probs at work but have stopped again ,only a yesterday:hehe: but it is a start and i fully support the new laws,it is about time,i hate going out to come home clothes smelling of smoke:yes:

[Alexa]

WOW that is great, the sooner the better they bring it in to NSW it will be great, so over walking through the club from one side to the next and my hair and my clothes stink of smoke, esp when your handing out food, I feel so dirty, it will be a great day when it is banned in clubs altogether, sick of the smell near the pokies...which is not that far away from the bistro...

Just the other night we had a guy try and light up in the bistro and we had all these families, OMG you would have thought world war 3 was happening, management was called and he was asked to leave, the police came and he has been banned from the club, I mean everyone knows we have a Non Smoking policy in place for ages...esp in the Bistro, that is why I only work there as it is the only area that is smoke free...but I still smell no thanks to air conditioning...even though management think it is in my imagination...funny how I can smell it on my clothes...they just don;t care.

[Naomi]

Alexa, they are introducing it gradually in NSW, I think only 25% of the pubs and clubcs can have smoking now (although seriously, like that works ... smoke drifts all over anyway :roll: ) But I think next July pubs and clubs are smoke free. It's about time. It's not fair on employees in pubs and clubs to be exposed to the health hazard of second hand smoke constantly. Every other workplace in Australia is smoke free.

[Alexa]

won't that be a great day...not sure if the clubs will like it as people that play pokies seem to smoke (well a lot do)...so I guess they won't be happy.

to get off the topic totally, the other night my friend was working in pokies and this women had been there all day, and she has her "free drinks" anyway at about 10pm she finally went home, but not before she peed on the seat she had been sitting in all day...how disgusting is that...my friend had to clean it up...some people!!!

[Naomi]

The clubs hate it. Especially from the pokies perspective - people who have to get up and go outside for a smoke don't put as much into the machines. Gambling addiction is horrible - if making people get up and go outside can help them to stop putting their wage into the pubs/clubs/governments pockets then good.

That is so gross about that woman peeing on the seat. How bad is her addiction if she will do that?

[Lea]

Here in Newcastle some of the Cafe owners are ignoring the new smoking regulations completely. They are more concerned with how the new bans will affect their profit margins than copping fines for ignoring new rules.

If I approach a cafe/restuarant and smokers are glogging up the entrance, I usually turn around and go elsewhere.

Yes people have the right to smoke, but not when it's one smoker affecting up to half a dozen people.

[Alexa]

when I did my RCG course and my RSA course, they said gambling costs the government so much per year to help people etc compared to alcohol abuse...it is a really big problem and only getting worse...people spend hours and hours and hours at the club...and of course no clocks and you can't see outside to see what time of day it is, very sad really...and it seems to be all age ranges, but the clubs love these people and encourage them to come back with drinks and food etc, it is even worse in America, was watching a show about it when I was there...they showed one guy who spent 72 hours straight at the casino and at the same machine...how bad is that...and yes I am totally off this topic of NO SMOKING...sorry...

[Young_Aussie]

Im a smoker myself but i have the respect for others that are non smoker's so i have chossen to only smoke at home.
These law's are great i have noticed in our area (suburb) people have actually sat up and taken notice just over the past to day's you can notice the big change everywhere.Maybe the new law's will help people give up smoking all together its done wounders for me im already starting to slowly give up (im a chicken cant do it all at once)

[sjc]

I hope they also bring in the law to ban it in cars where there are children and pets. It makes my blood boil when you see people smoking with little one's in the car all the windows up. The kids and pets don't have a choice, it is so irresponsible. x(

[Lea]

And some mothers puffing away while breastfeeding their babies. I just want to slap them!:headh:

[CarolineBreck]

More and more states in the US are implementing no smoking laws. Summit County, where Breckenridge is, passed one two years ago. Now the whole state of Colorado is going no smoke too. Also I know of California, Florida, New York, etc. etc. When I was a smoker it was a little annoying at first. Then it just got to be normal. Now that I am a non-smoker I REALLY appreciate it.

[Telori]

It is a good thing. But I think they need to reinforce the law about smoking within 'so many' meters of shop door ways...I hate walking out and choking on smoke...people never seem to get far enough away before they light up.

[fashmagslag]

I have a slightly different slant on it all. I am a smoker (disgusting yes, everyone jump on me! :P) and i believe smoke anywhere indoors is antisocial and rude. I don't smoke in my own house. I also believe that smoking in food areas is a revolting thing. BUT, and it's a big but, the government is paying lip service to non smokers everywhere with this legislation without actually giving a toss. They make more money from cigarette tax (and i'm aware that a lot of this is spent on health services....could be a lot more though) than they spend on quit/anti smoking campaigns.
Being a smoker, i think that a habit that is essentially supported by the government should not be "banned" selectively. Non smokers have the right to fresh air, and i completely respect that. As a smoker that isn't doing anything illegal by lighting up in an open area, i don't feel i should be shunned either.

And i shall now hop off my soap box :D

[Lea]

I think they need to reinforce the law about smoking within 'so many' meters of shop door ways...I hate walking out and choking on smoke...people never seem to get far enough away before they light up.

I know that in about 1999 one of the TAFE campus' in the Newcastle area had signs up everywhere saying smokers had to be at least 5 metres away from any of the building entry-ways.

A couple of times people were a little too close to the doors when they lit up, and sure enough a lecturer would be out within seconds to pounce on them. It made it so much nicer to be able to walk in & out of buildings and not have to dodge the smokers.

[coolbabefromoz]

I'm a smoker as well and am feeling increasingly more like an outcast because of it. If I'm visiting someone who doesn't smoke then I won't smoke. If I'm in a public place where smoking isn't allowed, then I won't smoke. I'm a good person who doesn't drink/drive, do drugs or beat my child. And even though I obey all the 'rules' the simple fact that I'm a smoker is enough for some people to find it necessary to look down their noses at me like I'm a second class citizen when they don't even know me!

I work hard and pay my taxes (more than non smokers if you take into consideration the tax I pay when buying my cigarettes..haha) so if I want to enjoy a smoke I bloody well will :P

[Patricia]

I'm a smoker as well and am feeling increasingly more like an outcast because of it. If I'm visiting someone who doesn't smoke then I won't smoke. If I'm in a public place where smoking isn't allowed, then I won't smoke. I'm a good person who doesn't drink/drive, do drugs or beat my child. And even though I obey all the 'rules' the simple fact that I'm a smoker is enough for some people to find it necessary to look down their noses at me like I'm a second class citizen when they don't even know me!

I work hard and pay my taxes (more than non smokers if you take into consideration the tax I pay when buying my cigarettes..haha) so if I want to enjoy a smoke I bloody well will :P

Nobody is telling you that you MUST stop smoking. The government is just enforcing non-smokers rights not to have to inhale dirty, filthy second hand smoke in a public place. What you do in your own environment (i.e. not in a public place) is certainly nobodies business but your own :)

[coolbabefromoz]

Nobody who knows me would be game enough to tell me that LMAO

[Young_Aussie]

completly off topic here

Is it just me or does anyone else have that ""no body smokes here any more "" song in their heads from time to time

[Patricia]

LOL now that you have mentioned it, it has started playing on a loop in my head..thanks for that :P:P

[Telori]

Dont you hate that...now it is playing in my head too....:P

[sandydee]

:yes: i thought it was just me ,when the ad comes on i just cant get out of my head:headh: a catchy little jingle:yes:

[grammyjo]

In some of our larger cities here in Wisconsin, they're trying to pass city wide anti-smoking laws. I think it's a good idea. I have nieces that smoked the whole time they were pregant & still do while holding baby.

JO

[Telori]

My pet hate is seeing someone holding a baby with a cigarette hanging out their mouths of in their hand.

[CarolineBreck]

I totally agree, Teena. Its one thing to harm yourself, but its quite another to smoke near a child who can't tell you to stop.

I am so glad I quit while I am still young. I never intended to pick it up as a habit but it is SO addicting. I am hoping that all of these restrictions will help people quit! Its the best thing I ever did.