The down side of the smoking ban

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And also retard their intersocial skills which are underdeveloped because they spend all day sat on their own in front of the telly.

But back on topic. I'm one of the "buggers" that smokes and visits my local pub on a regular basis (until now it's got cold).
I'm one of the "buggers" that pays an inordinate amount of tax on my cigarettes that pays for NHS treatment of smoking related diseases many many times over (even ASH don't deny this). You want to ban smoking and pay 3p on the pound more in income tax to make up for the revenue loss? Deafening silence
I'm one of the buggers that believes pubs are a place that serve alcohol and therefore are NOT family places in the first place, so sod the lot of them and let them go to a park like my family used to.
I'm one of the "buggers" that is being treated like a pariah for doing something that is completely legal and that my government condones by taxing the cigarettes that are sold to me.
I'm one of the "buggers" that doesn't want to see groups of drunken lads outside pubs intimidating and abusing passing people just because they happen to be out there to have a cigarette. I see this happen all the time.
I'm one of the "buggers" that would appreciate being able to have a cigarette at the end of the bar in a pub if I was working the bar because bar staff don't get breaks but most of them smoke.
I'm one of the "buggers" that is sick and tired of what is rapidly becoming a fascist state influenced by fascist, one agenda lobby groups.

Etc etc...

Unfortunately, a lot of pubs are going to close this winter I feel because smokers (who make the majority of regular patrons in the North of England) will not want to sit outside in temperatures of -20,000 degrees to have a cigarette. Thus all the do-good lobby group types won't actually have a pub to visit on their once monthly outing with little baby Tarquin.
And to top it all, I have heard non smokers bitching about people sitting outside the pub smoking when the weather is nice because they want to sit there... Make your mind up, you want us in in the good weather and out in the bad???????

But let's at least look at the upside of smoking. It makes you look hard and attractive to women obviously.

You also have a choice about whether you want to associate with or otherwise be around smokers.

Are you for real? That is the most brain dead argument I have heard in this thread. You would choose your friends based on whether they smoke or not? Wow! You need to get some living under your belt.