 Poster: A snowHead
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i am a smoker, and i am happy for smoking to be banned in restaurants and bars (it has pretty much already been banned in all other public places,cinemas, etc, anyway). I must admit i do smoke in bars at the moment because i can - but if i cant i will go outside. i dont smoke in my house if there are non smokers there, as i dont want them breathing my smoke.
PS i think if there wasn't a massive taxation surplus from the cost of treating smoking related illness's (from both direct tobbaco tax, VAT from retailers and corporate taxation then the government would ban tobbaco completley. PS i don't think a non smoker can really comment on the difficulties of nicotine withdrawl as they have never directly experienced it!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Manda I think richmond come out on top there, time to step off the pedestal. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| PS i don't think a non smoker can really comment on the difficulties of nicotine withdrawl as they have never directly experienced it! |
Well true, but on the same lines, as it will be dependant on physiology, amount smoked and amounts of nicotine in the cigarettes (which can vary from pack to pack, let alone brand to brand), by the same token, it's difficult for one smoker to comment on the difficulties experienced by another smoker. 
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You only need to look at the relative ease with which a lot of people give up smoking to know that there is more going on than a simple biochemical addiction. The very uneven distribution of smokers between socio-economic groups, age groups and the genders supports this. There is a strong social element (as well as an antisocial element) to smoking.
Anecdotal evidence coming up. At university almost all my friends smoked. Now only one does and I have no reson to believe that she wishes to stop. None of the givers up gave me any indication of going through hell when giving up; they had reached a stage when they thought 'I don't want to do this any more, I'll stop.', and they did. They are all reasonably well educated, reasonably well heeled, reasonably happy, middle class people, FWIW. Doesn't prove a thing, but there we are.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| You only need to look at the relative ease with which a lot of people give up smoking to know that there is more going on than a simple biochemical addiction. |
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one as I don't see that so can't look at it.
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Just a thought - Which is fairer from a "spending my taxes" point of view?
A smoker who is paying for potential treatment by the various taxation on tobbaco consumption
A Skier who injure  s themselves and then receives treatment on the NHS on their return to the UK
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sorry about the syntax
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