Smokers in Australia!
Jul 19th 2006, 11:45 am
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by noonard
Yeah - it's probably exactly that. Still, if it stops kids starting I'm not one to complain.
Well in 2007 you won`t be able to smoke anywhere, only outdoors and in your own home thats if your family will allow it, sorry, I reckon its time to give up don`t you, and I`m an x smoker, and I must say Ilike my new life
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Jul 19th 2006, 11:51 am
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by stacey and jordan
It makes me mad when i see people smoking in cars when there are young children sat in the back inhaling all there smoke. Stacey xx
Jul 19th 2006, 11:53 am
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by jon and alex
Damn right! My biggest hates are smoking in restaurants and, even worse, beaches covered in cigarette butts. I have been on so many beautiful beaches that have been ruined by smokers ditching their fag ends on the sand. It really annoys me.
I really love the fact that in Queensland you can actually go to a pub and not be forced to breathe in second hand smoke. Its great.
I really love the fact that in Queensland you can actually go to a pub and not be forced to breathe in second hand smoke. Its great.
I also hate to see cigarrette buts everywhere and totally agree that it should be stopped.
I have a friend who , bless her , has tried seriously to stop twice now with no success and when she goes for a fag at work and then comes back she absolutely stinks !To make matters worse we are nurses in an operating theatre !We still have a designated smoke room bang opposite the busiest theatre in the hospital - and its one of the busiest rooms going!
I ve tried to tell my buddy that if someone was looking after me after i had had an operation who smelt like she does then i would be very offended and would probably throw up ( not in so many words you understand!)
Come September though the smoke room will be history as the whole hospital is going to be a non smoking area.Even the grounds!Don t know quite how they will police this but, hey, its all good as far as im concerned.Im fed up of working a long shift and walking out of the hospital and looking forward to gasping a good lung full of lovley fresh air... when what you get is a lung full of someone elses second hand smoke cos they all (patients too with drips , drains etc) stand just outside the door fagging !
I knew i shouldn t join this thread - told you i was anti !
Great news to hear of Oz being more forward thinking in those terms than we are in the UK .
I shall look forward to going out for a drink or a meal and not having to shower and wash everything i have worn (even though i showered before) before i go to bed .That will be lovley.Thankyou.
Jul 19th 2006, 12:11 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
There are loads of smokers in Perth .... and I have noticed smoking habits are just the same here as they are in UK. A ban will just send them into the street so everybody will notice it alot more and all you anti's can have a nice winge fest about how you are all victims 
Jul 19th 2006, 12:14 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by noonard
An odd subject perhaps, but I thought I'd get other people's opinions on this!
Being a smoker, whenever I have been in Australia I have found the attitude towards it rather different than in the UK. I don't mean the fact that you can't smoke in any restaurants or in a lot of pubs - actually I think that's probably a good thing - but the social stigma attached to being a smoker seems to be much worse than in the UK.
I found that sometimes when you're chatting away to someone and getting on like old friends, then the subject comes up, it's almost like admitting "yeah, I've been in prison..." ! An exaggeration perhaps, but the atmosphere certainly tends to get colder! Certainly a lot of my fiance's family just cannot get their heads around the fact that I smoke, and some seem to find it really hard to accept.
In the UK you just don't get that, or if you do it's nothing like as bad. Everybody knows that smoking is not the best idea you could have, but so long as you're not bothering others the attitude tends to be much more relaxed - "It's your choice".
Part of me sees it as the perfect excuse to give up, but being the bolshy git that I am another part of me thinks of it as a chance to protest for my right to choose!
Either way, I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed a difference in attitude or if it's just me!
Being a smoker, whenever I have been in Australia I have found the attitude towards it rather different than in the UK. I don't mean the fact that you can't smoke in any restaurants or in a lot of pubs - actually I think that's probably a good thing - but the social stigma attached to being a smoker seems to be much worse than in the UK.
I found that sometimes when you're chatting away to someone and getting on like old friends, then the subject comes up, it's almost like admitting "yeah, I've been in prison..." ! An exaggeration perhaps, but the atmosphere certainly tends to get colder! Certainly a lot of my fiance's family just cannot get their heads around the fact that I smoke, and some seem to find it really hard to accept.
In the UK you just don't get that, or if you do it's nothing like as bad. Everybody knows that smoking is not the best idea you could have, but so long as you're not bothering others the attitude tends to be much more relaxed - "It's your choice".
Part of me sees it as the perfect excuse to give up, but being the bolshy git that I am another part of me thinks of it as a chance to protest for my right to choose!
Either way, I was just wondering if anyone else had noticed a difference in attitude or if it's just me!
Jul 19th 2006, 12:19 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
I'd never noticed this until I was speaking to some-one at work last week,talking about when she visited the UK. She had this impresssion that the whole of the UK were chain smokers, said every place she went was full of smokers & that she felt really out of it by being a non-smoker. I was stumped at her opinion at the time, as when I was in the UK I'd not seen it like that. However, if Aussies are so anti-smoking & think of it as so anti-social, thats probably why she thought UK was so bad.
Jul 19th 2006, 2:49 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by maggy
Im a smoker have tried to give up a few times but if im honest I really enjoy a ciggie therefor will continue to smoke until I am ready to give up.
Not when someone tells me I should.
What I really do object to is when I am in a smoking part of a pub and a non smoker is standing next to me and gives me that repulsive look.
FFS go stand in the no smoking area and leave me alone.
The majority of pubs are no smoking and we have a tiny area and yet the buggers still want to stand there and have the nerve to whinge.
BOG OFF PLEASE AND GIVE ME A BREAK.
Go join Greenpeace.
Mags
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Not when someone tells me I should.
What I really do object to is when I am in a smoking part of a pub and a non smoker is standing next to me and gives me that repulsive look.
FFS go stand in the no smoking area and leave me alone.
The majority of pubs are no smoking and we have a tiny area and yet the buggers still want to stand there and have the nerve to whinge.
BOG OFF PLEASE AND GIVE ME A BREAK.
Go join Greenpeace.
Mags
A Happy Smoker
By the way, you won't give up when you want to (cos your an addict). It's the ciggies that control you, not the other way round
Jul 19th 2006, 2:59 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by sel
There are loads of smokers in Perth .... and I have noticed smoking habits are just the same here as they are in UK. A ban will just send them into the street so everybody will notice it alot more and all you anti's can have a nice winge fest about how you are all victims
I've quit again now im a bit older (never see 30 again), but yer, six years ago I certainly never saw an anti-smoking movement in Perth.
Times change though, banning smoking in all public places is the way to go, im not against smokers, but I am sure as hell against tabacoo companys and the way tabacco hooks people.........I never wonted to quit this last time, I did it for my GF, but I am so glad I did, best decission I never made
Jul 19th 2006, 3:04 pm
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Re: Smokers in Australia!
Originally Posted by Kangaroorick
I managed to quit whilst I lived in Southern California, and started again when I moved to Perth, there were so many smokers there!
I've quit again now im a bit older (never see 30 again), but yer, six years ago I certainly never saw an anti-smoking movement in Perth.
Times change though, banning smoking in all public places is the way to go, im not against smokers, but I am sure as hell against tabacoo companys and the way tabacco hooks people.........I never wonted to quit this last time, I did it for my GF, but I am so glad I did, best decission I never made
I've quit again now im a bit older (never see 30 again), but yer, six years ago I certainly never saw an anti-smoking movement in Perth.
Times change though, banning smoking in all public places is the way to go, im not against smokers, but I am sure as hell against tabacoo companys and the way tabacco hooks people.........I never wonted to quit this last time, I did it for my GF, but I am so glad I did, best decission I never made
)Anyway - I apologise for starting this one up - I didn't expect the insults to start flying but hey - I guess people feel pretty strongly about the subject.
Can't we all just have a hug and get along? I'll have a shower first, promise...
