Smoking ban in UK causing clubs to behave like c*$%ts!!

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:38 am

clubfoot wrote:
patrick bateman wrote:
clubfoot wrote:I am addicted to a substance that the government pressed on me since I was a small child. Now they don't wanna let me indulge. Cunts.
Wow, a government forced you to smoke???
err, no

Okay, English isn't my native language, so it's probably just because I didn't understand what you mean. Sorry, but would you explain it in details so everybody can follow you?

clubfoot · Post by **clubfoot** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:47 pm

sure thing...

I'm just referring to the advertising of cigarettes - you know the marlboro man and all that - pretty much everywhere when I was growing up (not now) and now the outlawing of using cigarettes, yet they are still being sold. I think they should decide where they want to stand on it.

I think it's quite double standard in this transition period.

It's as ridiculous as if they started taxing marijuana and advertising it but still busted people for possessing it. Not the same exactly but just as hypocritical.

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:51 pm

clubfoot wrote:sure thing...

I'm just referring to the advertising of cigarettes - you know the marlboro man and all that - pretty much everywhere when I was growing up (not now) and now the outlawing of using cigarettes, yet they are still being sold. I think they should decide where they want to stand on it.

I think it's quite double standard in this transition period.

It's as ridiculous as if they started taxing marijuana and advertising it but still busted people for possessing it. Not the same exactly but just as hypocritical.

Ahh okay... actually I'm with you on this one..

I don't understand this swarm of laws/regulations regarding smoking, as you say, it's very double moral.
If cigarettes were new today, they probably would be classified as a drug.

clubfoot · Post by **clubfoot** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:59 pm

I'll give them this: it's a Euro/US thing so any self-respecting European government has to get on this. It can't happen overnight (that would be a bit radical) so this is how it starts - smoking ban and alienation of remaining users. In ten/twenty years with every Euro country doing the same policy, it will probably eventually be made illegal or underground or something. I guess that's the long-term on this one.

Nocturnal · Post by **Nocturnal** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:15 pm

So if someone wants to go out for fresh air..do they charge them too..or is there a separate area for that??

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:24 pm

Nocturnal wrote:So if someone wants to go out for fresh air..do they charge them too..or is there a separate area for that??

I was thinking that too...

Nocturnal · Post by **Nocturnal** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:31 pm

they should have separate areas outside for those who wanna fart and have bo too

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:42 pm