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Scotland smoking ban and your right to smoke

Smokers have rights too

Your right to smoke

Ah, the great country that is Scotland. Well, for all the non smokers out there here's my conclusion. I smoke and I like to smoke.



I'm fed up with the way smokers are now seen as second class citizens.  As you may know, smoking in Scotland has now been banned and we have all been pushed outside into the cold.

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20-6-2008we should ask government for a referendum stand up for our rights as smokers and let us have our say and let us enjoy our pint and our conversation like thousends of people have over many years and stop treating us like idiotsandy reid east london
16-6-2008Office Numpty, you are just exactly that aren't you? You'll be believing the air is pollution free next, before adding cigarette smoke. You inhale more fumes sat in your car than any cigarette could emitt. Go live in a oxygen bubble just like 'Wacko Jacko' did, give us all a bre...moreMarty
16-6-2008Keep your disgusting smelly, air polluting, health damaging smoke to yourself. Also the sight and whole concept of a person smoking looks totally rediculous. I can think of better ways for people to enjoy themselves without them feeling the need to share it with me.Office Numpty
06-6-2008Have you noticed the Government has recently begun to up the propanganda against drinking? Of course the people at large, the little people, simply don't understand this. The propaganda has nothing whatsoever to do with health but everything to do with which Government stays in power. They h...moreAre you blind and foolish?
26-5-2008Smokers have rights too and any party to recognise this will get my vote in the next general election. UKIP will definatly be a force to watch out for. Look out Labour , give the people freedom to choose before its too late ! Smokers do not want to inflict none smokers with their habbit, but just wa...moreMicky
01-5-2008Ummm, I am enjoying this cicarette! Oh...just a second...I put it in the ashtray. I want this smoking ban lifted or smokers should pay less tax for being penalised. We go to a restaurant and are told to go outside to smoke - very well, only I want to pay less then. Fair?SuperBambinoCattivo
01-5-2008Smokers do tell non smokers what to do. They tell us we should breathe in their foul smoke. Smokers do bully non smokers when the non smoker is coughing and rasping. Keep ya foul habit in ya own doors. That's the fair answer.Digsy
01-5-2008why dont You just leave smokers alone they dont tell you what to do they so just leave them ALONE!!!!!!blakey
01-5-2008Smokers have the right to kill and poison themselves if they wish. They do not have the right to impose the filthy stinking residue of their foul and and antisocial habit on the rest of us. Once they realise this and are able to reconcile their use of the drug to which they are addicted to the...moreMikeP
01-5-2008non smokers are always telling smokers what to do they have no right telling them what to to smokersdont tell non smokers what to do so just leave the smokers to do what everthey want non smokers are just acting like bulliesblakey
01-5-2008Smokers do have rights and no one can say that they dont.blakey
15-4-2008Smokers do not have rights. Their obnoxious habit is fine as long as they puff away in their own home. But they dont want that. They want to make everyone smell and and cough and splutter while they puff away to their (cancer ridden) hearts content! If the smoker could just smoke in their own...moreFed up!



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