As many people know, I don't smoke. And unless some deranged killer puts my entire family on a guillotine and threatens them with death unless I smoke a Lambert and Butler, I never will be.
This being said, I completely oppose our smoking ban, which for some reason, doesn't include the pub in the House of Commons, one rule for us, another for them. It is the height of governmental stupidity of men in anoraks and high-vis jackets churning out health and safety rules quicker than the banks lose our money, telling us how to live our lives and what to do.
And this dictated decree is killing one of Britain's proudest and most affluant culture's: The Great British Pub. Think about it, before the smoking ban, there was literally a pub on every corner, making our ecomony millions, and keeping us above water basically. But as soon as our government detected another way of spoiling peoples fun, here we are now in 2012, 4 years after the ban came into order, and 100 pubs are closing every week, and the country has no money.
Now, I'm not the brightest fork in the spanner drawer, but even I can tell you that banning something in a public area which makes you millions, perhaps even billions every year, is stupid. Then I would give you a pound and send you down the shops to buy sweets, because you'd have to be a child to suggest it in the first place.
Sort it out, please, and all of a sudden Britain will have more money, it's that easy.
As much as I agree with this, it does pose the question of peoples health. Let's face it, it's not going to do the economy any good if the people that are paying are dying because of second hand smoke or directly from smoking themselves either. Besides people smoking is just, well, vulgar.
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