It’s not enough that the UK has socialized health care, which right now is just a quagmire I’m hoping to sidestep in this post. Now all of the UK has banned smoking in all public places.
Public opinion varies on the subject, with Slash formally of GnR saying he must smoke. The sky is falling even further for pubs and also for the makers of beer due to establishments going to vanish due to the smoking ban. Most store owners are not bucking the law, and doing what’s required to ensure they are not fined.
Let’s not forget the grim statistics cited here, that if you don’t quit smoking, the pub owner isn’t going to be able to serve you a cold one… he’ll be dead from your habit.
Maybe Chantix should take this chance to ramp up advertising in England.
1Tracee Sioux on Jul 28, 2007 at 9:47 am:
Good for the UK. There is still a Dairy Queen in a nearby town that allows smoking in the dining room. Even as a smoker I’d become used to eating without smoke. It’s irritating and disgusting. In California you can’t smoke in bars. That seems silly considering your not there for your health. But, none of this is my problem anymore because I took Chantix and I’m no longer chained to cigarrettes. Hell, Chantix made it so easy to quit I might even support a prohibition law against cigarrettes altogether.
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