What’s the bet that this drivel is written by AI?
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Fixed
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Yeah…good call.
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i remember back in the day, i wont say ‘i love smoking’, but yeah it would be wrong to suest the atmosphere improved immediately when smokin was banned in venues…fast forwarding a generation, you cant also seriously arue it wasnt a net gain…so much better now.
interested to know, if you love smoking though, do you still smoke? or did you quit and what was the motivation? health or cost?
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Health. Quit on our wedding day. Fucking hard and I will admit to having a few moments of weakness but haven’t touched a cigarette for 16 years.
But why can’t there be pubs just for smokers?
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Smoking is dying out anyway. Young people vape or stick pouches in their gums. Tbh I can’t see a problem in having a pub for old men, who have no intention of ever quitting, to smoke their pipes and fags.
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This, absolutely.
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The only problem I can see is that it wouldn’t be economically viable. I think pubs in general are already struggling due to lack of demand, if you have a smoking-only pub, I’m not sure it could draw enough business.
do they still have cigar lounges for the top end of town in the UK? (genuine question)
10% of the British public smoke, and pubs are already struggling.
Good luck keeping that ‘smokers only’ pub open.
Smoking in public places is one of those things we’ll looking back on in disbelief - what the fuck were we thinking! Like hitting kids.
Road traffic contributes far more pollution to the air than cigarette smoke does.
I say we ban all motorised vehicles.
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Well they have been doing that with ULEZ legislation throughout the world. It is having a positive effect.
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Is the exhaust being piped in through a window into an enclosed space filled with 100’s of people?
Cigarette smoke on its own is actually far more polluting than car exhaust - by a magnitude of 10.
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Honestly, I’d rather we actually build decent public transport systems than wade into the whole debate about cars. I don’t believe there are that many people in this country who would stick with cars if they had better options. You’ll still have the car lovers, but I doubt they form any more than a small minority of the population.
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Unfortunately you’ll have countries like USA and Australia where they will never move away from ICE cars in the necessary quantity. It doesn’t help that these places have very poor public transport networks.
Here in South East Qld they’ve recently started offering 50c public transport fares. It’s an election bribe from the current government, but it would cost me 50c to take the 120km train journey into Brissy. Sadly that would also take 3hr 20min one way, which really highlights how poor the rail network is here.
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I was referencing the UK specifically. In the USA and Australia, while you can reduce the use of cars, I think it’s likely to be as you said, impossible to eradicate simply because of the way everything is built and the vast scale of the places.
And the reluctance to spend any money on decent cycle infrastructure. Totally different world (and mindset) when you visit cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam
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This is really sad.
Have they considered Rwanda?