STUBBED OUT?
As a non-cigarette smoker, the vote by MPs to ban smoking in all pubs and clubs in England can't come soon enough.
It looks as though it won't be long before it'll be possible to go out for a quiet pint and a chat without coming home smelling like a stale ashtray.
As someone who's proud of his well-stocked humidor, however, I fear one of the most enjoyable and decadent pleasures of London life could be about to be outlawed.
Can it really be the case that by 2008, savouring a carefully-chosen Montecristo at Floridita will be just a distant memory?
Will it be more acceptable to shoot up heroin in a stairwell than to while away an hour nursing a Cohiba in the cigar room at Dunhills on Jermyn Street or the nearby Davidoff store?
Smoke-free cities like New York have left the (humi)door open for smoking haunts by issuing special cigar bar exemptions to selected establishments.
Please....please....let the same happen over here.
As a non-cigarette smoker, the vote by MPs to ban smoking in all pubs and clubs in England can't come soon enough.It looks as though it won't be long before it'll be possible to go out for a quiet pint and a chat without coming home smelling like a stale ashtray.
As someone who's proud of his well-stocked humidor, however, I fear one of the most enjoyable and decadent pleasures of London life could be about to be outlawed.
Can it really be the case that by 2008, savouring a carefully-chosen Montecristo at Floridita will be just a distant memory?
Will it be more acceptable to shoot up heroin in a stairwell than to while away an hour nursing a Cohiba in the cigar room at Dunhills on Jermyn Street or the nearby Davidoff store?
Smoke-free cities like New York have left the (humi)door open for smoking haunts by issuing special cigar bar exemptions to selected establishments.
Please....please....let the same happen over here.
posted by Stuart at 23:06
1 Comments:
HA! You think the UK will have it hard. In Ontario, smoking is banned in almost all public places, including work places. Very few smoke rooms in this area. You try smoking a cigarette/cigar/spliff in -30 degrees C. It's (almost) enough to stop you smoking altogether.
No opportunity to have a civilised cigar either - all banned, no exemptions (at least in Barrie, that I'm aware of) EXCEPT... the bingo hall with the blue rinse brigade!!!
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