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    I went to the pub and all I can smell on my clothes is cig smoke.

    Roll on July...



    Footpaths next as no-smoking zones

    A WEEK after Mosman Council banned smoking in council parks, its mayor says footpaths may also one day be declared smoke-free zones.

    "I think there would be community support for it. I don't think people particularly like seeing a whole host of smokers outside any building," Denise Wilton said yesterday.

    Cr Wilton said the proposal - which the City of Sydney said it would also assess - would be considered after the total ban on indoor smoking came into effect on July 2.

    If people started spilling out of pubs and clubs to smoke after July 2, she said, the council would look at declaring further zones to avoid gatherings of smokers outside buildings.

    The assistant manager at the Mosman Hotel, Troy Barnett, said that would present significant problems for pub owners.

    "It's going to be a sticky one. I don't want cigarette butts out the front and Joe Bloggs doesn't want to walk through patrons that are smoking outside. But I am really unsure what we will do as a hotel if smoking is banned on the footpath," he said.

    Mosman Council has long prohibited smoking on beaches, council sporting grounds and outdoor dining areas located on council land. The council last week voted unanimously to extend the ban to Mosman Square, parks, underground car parks and bus shelters. Rangers are empowered to fine offenders $110.

    The City of Sydney is also looking at banning smoking on footpaths.

    "It will be considered among a range of options," a council spokesman said yesterday.

    The City of Sydney has established a working party to examine the implications of the July 2 ban, including the problem of patrons stepping outside for a cigarette.

    "If the pub can't accommodate smokers inside, they just flow out onto the footpath and smoke," the City of Sydney's Cr John McInerney said yesterday. " If they take their drinks out, we then have people drinking on the footpath, which can get difficult for pedestrians. You can walk right past and effectively breath a lungful of smoke."

    Cr McInerney said council rangers were not empowered to usher people off the footpath.

    In Victoria, some councils have been granted the power to put conditions on pubs seeking development approvals that prohibit the use of the footpath for smoking.

    "It could one day happen here," Cr McInerney said.

    The president of the Local Government Association, Genia McCaffery, said councils were within their rights to ban smoking on footpaths, but said such a move would require community support.

    North Sydney Council, of which Cr McCaffery is the mayor, is not considering a footpath ban.

    "I don't think there is support for that yet, but my concern is that as we shift smokers onto the street we increase our litter problem and we haven't found a way to deal with that yet," she said.

    Waverley Council's mayor, George Newhouse, said the council had imposed a ban on smoking on beaches, but wouldn't consider going as far as Mosman Council.

    "I think it's impossible to ban smoking in all areas and it's [a case of] the nanny state going too far," he said. "At this stage, we won't be going further than we have been doing."
    One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

  • #2
    This reminds me of the hospital that banned smoking outside, forcing smokers into the woods - where one nurse got raped.

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    • #3
      We recently introduced a smoking ban on bars (if they serve food- which was all of them).

      Most of the bars are ignoring the ban since they can't be fined (only the customer can be fined for smoking- and who is going to fine them at 1:00 in the morning- goverment workers aren't up at that hour). Other bars have simply stopped serving food.

      We used to be a city where you could do pretty much anything. But damn Californian hippies moving in have changed that. next to go will be prostitution.

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      • #4
        Roll on April 2 here...

        I will personally celebrate by doing the rounds of all the cool independent coffee shops here in Cardiff where the smokers have traditionally had dominion over the cooler upstairs parts...
        Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Cort Haus
          This reminds me of the hospital that banned smoking outside, forcing smokers into the woods - where one nurse got raped.
          raped by who? another employee? a patient? or a regular citizen.

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          • #6
            A smoker most likely...
            Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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            • #7
              put video cameras in the woods.

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              • #8
                actually my solution is smokers should smoke in a small 5X5 room and be forced to breathe in their own smoke they produce. No ventilation. No windows or anything. You'd have to have a transition room so the smoke doesn't spill out when they exit. Then the air in the transition room would be pumped back into the smoking room.

                that could be a tad expensive though. .

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                • #9
                  They'd smell like **** aftre that...

                  2000ad did a short Dredd comic of such facility.
                  I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                  • #10
                    hm, homosexual frogs could be called "frags"
                    "I realise I hold the key to freedom,
                    I cannot let my life be ruled by threads" The Web Frogs
                    Middle East!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Cort Haus
                      This reminds me of the hospital that banned smoking outside, forcing smokers into the woods - where one nurse got raped.
                      More incentives not to smoke!
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #12
                        Which is a greater threat to public health, British fags or American fags? I suppose secondhand smoke has killed some people, but I can't imagine it's anywhere near the number killed by AIDs...
                        KH FOR OWNER!
                        ASHER FOR CEO!!
                        GUYNEMER FOR OT MOD!!!

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                        • #13
                          I just splooged in your mayonnaise for that one.
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #14
                            Is it ok to call cigars "fags" or is it like saying niggardly for avaricious?
                            I need a foot massage

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Dis
                              We recently introduced a smoking ban on bars (if they serve food- which was all of them).

                              Most of the bars are ignoring the ban since they can't be fined (only the customer can be fined for smoking- and who is going to fine them at 1:00 in the morning- goverment workers aren't up at that hour). Other bars have simply stopped serving food.

                              We used to be a city where you could do pretty much anything. But damn Californian hippies moving in have changed that. next to go will be prostitution.
                              californians are such a scapegoat. youre no better than an ignorant Montanan that blames their inability to continue their farming lifestyle on california snowbirds.
                              "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                              'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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