slurp! drag!

them was the days!

Made up that this was taken out of pubs. I no longer come home smelling of smoke and wake up with a bad chest. It should be banned all together IMO

Spot on there Chorizo, for non smokers it was horrible but smokers don't even notice the smell on their clothes and everything else.

How I hated those days,being forced to go to the pub and endure such torture------------- :-)

But then you'll be moaning because tax has been increased on everything to make up the shortfall from the loss of tobacco tax

i am an ex smoker and i believe if you want to do it fine but i do have a problem with people standing right outside a shop and lighting up.why cant you wait until you are further away from the door.as you are forcing people smokers or not to breath in your smoke.and no i am not one of those ex smokers that think it should be banned.

In 2011 among adults aged 35 and over, around 79,100 deaths (18 per cent of all deaths of adults aged 35 and over) were estimated to be caused by smoking.
Over 5 billion spent by NHS on treating directly related smoking diseases.
How much more evidence do folk need to stop them smoking?

http://www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and...king/statistics-on-smoking--england-2012

Do you have the same stats for alcohol related deaths?

are you worried Zubee haha

lol! Not at all, just mean that cigarettes aren't the only legal thing that's killing people.

Same link gives info on alcohol related but is that not off topic?

Not off topic, picture shows alcohol and cigarettes. If smokers didn't generate so much income for the government or it was outweighed by the costs to the NHS then they'd make it illegal.

them where the days a smoke and a drink in comfort, not standing out in the cold, having a quick puff.

Some 8.2 million Britons (26%) drink more than the recommended amount of alcohol and one in 20 are dependent on drink, according to social care group Turning Point.

The charity said 150,000 people are admitted to hospital each year because of drinking alcohol.

And 22,000 people die as a direct result of alcohol, mainly from liver disease but also because of accidents, fights and other drink-fuelled incidents.

The cost of treating people with alcohol-related health problems stands at £1.7 billion a year, according to the Department of Health.

Cabinet Office figures show alcohol-related harm, which includes the cost of policing and the processing offenders though the criminal justice system, costs the UK £20 billion a year.

In addition, alcohol is a factor in nearly half (45%) of all domestic violence**, a Turning Point spokesman said.

A Department of Health spokeswoman said they were working on a joint campaign with the Home Office to promote responsible drinking amongst young people.

She said: "We are also working closely with the alcoholic drinks industry on preventing alcohol misuse. The industry has already introduced practical guidance on how to promote sensible drinking, and is working to clamp down on irresponsible promotions and underage sales.

"We are already investing heavily in services for people with alcohol problems. An additional £15 million will be provided to PCTs for treatment services from 2008, alongside an extra £3.2 million for new initiatives to help those who are damaging their health through alcohol abuse."

** And that's only the incidents that are reported!

I don't sit and have 10 fags at home, then get in a car & kill someone or go out looking for a fight or batter my other half because I am under the influence of nicotine.

Now tell me which is the worst out of the two £5bn for tobacco versus £21bn for alcohol (not including the £18.2m mentioned above for the "initiatives" (which clearly aren't working).

i say the same wench, alcohol causes more problems you are right wench

I agree 100% Wench.

Nobody is arguing with the problems caused by alcohol?

I don't think anyone said they were, but you said and brought in the money & death stats. People probably need the same amount of evidence to stop drinking to excess and being idiots!

Or did you mean that you were waiting for someone to argue with the problems caused by alcohol? Damn "?" always get me

That info is all in the same link that I included earlier