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gfloyd

http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,,2115280,00.html

Bransholme, north of Hull, which has at times been labelled Britain's most unhealthy city. Some 54% of adults in Bransholme east smoke, the highest proportion in the country, according to the anti-smoking charity Ash and double the national average of 26%. In the northern area of Hull, 27% of pregnant women smoke. Three-quarters of deaths before the age of 75 are smoking-related and up to nine years are shaved off the average life expectancy.

And in the article one of the pubs' regulars sats that the SMOKING BAN will kill them. I dont think so. Not unless the smoke hasnt first! Laughing

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Cherskiy

SCOTS-IAIN · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Hull

As a non - smoker, an ex Licensee & Hotel Manager in this city as well as elsewhere in the UK, and a resident of Hull, I'd like to respond to the topic.

Yes, I've taken a look at the Guardian article, and it is spot on. When I first came to this city back in 1990 and took over as Licensee and Manager of a hotel in this city, one improvement I made was to install Air Filtration units in all the Public Areas. Within weeks, it showed that the air was cleaner, staff were much happier going home at the end of their shifts not smelling like ashtrays, and even customers noticed that though fellow customers smoked, there wasn't the haze or fug of smoke hanging in the air.

My property was at the time, a rarity. But Hull is a diehard smoking city. There appears to be amongst its many smokers, a feeling it is their God given right to smoke and to hell with anyone else! If one does light up, and you ask them not to, you might as well as them to jump off the Humber Bridge. It won't happen. You are more likely to get a lot of verbal abuse, or even a punch in the face!

That is the problem with Hull. Just because they've always done it, they expect to carry on with it. That goes for their habits, whether it is in Industry, Drinking, or their Smoking. they don't move with the times, and view change with great suspicion.

There have been reports on TV and other local Media recently about Bar and Pub owners who claim they'll lose business, or even go out of business as a result of this ban! To them I say get a life! It has worked elsewhere in the UK with great success.

But the problem is that Hull's inhabitants who are smokers, will not change. They have no consideration, nor respect for others comfort. Complainants are wimps! As a non smoker, why should I be poisoned by these ignorant morons? Passive smoking causes toxins.

I'm not saying that people should not smoke. That is their choice, but they should only do so within their own homes, cars, or out in the open where their poison can't affect anyone else around them. To smoke in a confined or enclosed Public area should actually be made a crime as deliberately poisoning others!

Iain.