Smoking ban

[Neville Street]

This thread and the "cups of piss" thread...we're all really grumpy. Let's hope that the weather forecast improves and the days fly by, or we'll all enter the field intending to start a fight in a fortnight!!

[pie_and_a_pint]

This thread and the "cups of piss" thread...we're all really grumpy. Let's hope that the weather forecast improves and the days fly by, or we'll all enter the field intending to start a fight in a fortnight!!

[LostRiot]

there were a few smeller bars/tents that didn't care.

[Lynne Scratch Perry]

As a smoker I've always tried to be considerate.

If people are eating nearby, I'll either not light up or move. Same as if there's a child nearby.

Also, I'll attempt to keep the smoke from blowing into the faces of people nearby.

So, if it's not the done thing to smoke in a tent, I won't. There's plenty of space elsewhere on the site!

[VCK]

Smoking is banned inside the tents, although this is difficult to enforce in the larger tents.

I didn't go pre-smoking ban, so can't comment on if it made a difference, it didn't impact on my smoking during the festival.

[markeee]

well VCK, realistically it's pretty stupid not to be able to smoke in an outdoors structure (speaking as a now non smoker) - can't blame security for ignoring it

it's a hassle, and a waste of time, no harm done they probably think

[maninkilt]

Bit off topic this guys but as a none smoker can someone explane to me why so many (not all I know) smokers seem to think that fag butts dont count as litter? have seen areas even around bins covered in butts. Even if there isnt a bin isnt it still you rubbish and your responsibility?

Personaly Im not too bothered by cigarette smoke (so long as it isnt really in my face) but seeing streets corners, doorways and even beauty spots littered in this way by people who I can only beleive wouldn't throw aother rubbish ( I say this because fag butts are often the only litter items in these smoking areas) is something that really bugs me.

Is it just me?

[norainplease]

As a smoker I've always tried to be considerate.

If people are eating nearby, I'll either not light up or move. Same as if there's a child nearby.

Also, I'll attempt to keep the smoke from blowing into the faces of people nearby.

[marktea]

Lynne Scratch Perry Posted Yesterday, 11:21 PM

As a smoker I've always tried to be considerate.

If people are eating nearby, I'll either not light up or move. Same as if there's a child nearby.

Also, I'll attempt to keep the smoke from blowing into the faces of people nearby.

So, if it's not the done thing to smoke in a tent, I won't. There's plenty of space elsewhere on the site!

[Storm_NL]

Tell you what's worse.....

Chewing gum.

[travelling mr pastry]

Love it. Great antidote to the "screw you I'll do what I want" posts and other Mr Angry confrontational stuff seen in some threads over the last few days.

[maninkilt]

Tell you what's worse.....

Chewing gum.

[travelling mr pastry]

Yeah, no need for that either.

[marktea]

dont hijack these good peoples posts, glastonbury didnt used to be full of busybodies imposing the law on other fellow party goers you know?

[travelling mr pastry]

Hey who's imposing stuff? What you do / say is still up to you. Whatever the law or anyone else says you are still responsible for your actions and attitudes. Those posts showed others who have a different attitude to you and I happened to agree with them, that's all.

[marktea]

no they dont, i agree with everything they have posted, everything, so dont spin their words.

[greendotz]

anyone who complains about someone smoking at glastonbury is a c**t, no other way of putting it

[travelling mr pastry]

lol... c**t

[norainplease]

Love it. Great antidote to the "screw you I'll do what I want" posts and other Mr Angry confrontational stuff seen in some threads over the last few days.

[Goblinz]

I tend to smoke in tents... Only ever been caught once. Just be discrete and respectful of anybody that doesn;t want you to smoke near them

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

How hard is it to step outside the tent to light up & if the tent is packed, you shouldn't be smoking that close to people anyway?

Edited June 11, 2009 by DAVA

[Storm_NL]

How hard is it to step outside the tent to light up & if the tent is packed, you shouldn't be smoking that close to people anyway?

[Goblinz]

How hard is it to step outside the tent to light up & if the tent is packed, you shouldn't be smoking that close to people anyway?

[Storm_NL]

I don't smoke near kids or people eating, if somebody has a problem with it then I will move away from them.

Maybe i'll start complaining at the people who think it's OK to barge through, elbow you in the ribs and push past, even when they could jsut walk round you and see how far I get.

Is it really going to hurt people to put up with the occasional bit of smoke in a huge area over the period of 3 days?

[TheGreenDropsRule]

Not that I particularly want to side with Travelling Mr Pastry, who to be honest sounds like a very angry young person with little or no ability to engage in a balanced discussion, but........

The whole idea that the smoking ban is in place to protect people's health is in my opinion absolute rubbish. Before it was brought in the government commissioned some health body to investigate the effects of passive smoking in enclosed public spaces (basically pubs). Obviously they assumed the report would back up their vote winning ban.

Unfortunately for them, the report's findings were essentially that you would have to spend a huge amount of time in a very poorly ventilated pub before you were at even the slightest risk. To the point where you would probably have all kinds of other alcohol related issues much sooner. Just like the report commissioned before the reclassification of cannabis, the results were brushed under the carpet because they didnt fit in with the governments premade decision.

Yes lung disease from passive smoking is very real, but it was the reports findings that this was more an issue at home and for young children with developing lungs than it was in a pub.

Now dont get me wrong, I'm not actually a smoker and find pubs a much nicer place to be now. It's just that the whole health slant on the smoking ban just really pi55es me off.