This is going to be intresting, personally don't think it'll work. Its another money swindle, probably have a unit of smoke wardens going round to pubs on commission fining people for smoking. lol.

Can you imagine people having to go outside for a smoke in a night club or rave? There'd be a constant traffic, that and they'd have to scan everyone every two seconds, people would be bringing in all sorts the bouncers couldn't stop them. Fine in places like America where the rule was laid down a while ago if it wasn't straight up Constitution days in the first place but smoking in pubs is an adage custom in these ere parts. Theres going to be like 50 smokers outside pubs at any one time, can't bring your drink outside so there'll be more spiking going on, more fights, heck, who'd want to leave their drink in the pub just to smoke a 'gret anyway? The two go hand in hand, literally.

Going to my local pool hall on the 1st just to check it out, the cigarett companies will probably sponcer smoking huts but its not gonna work... builders getting fined for smoking in their vans .lol.

What on earth is Ken Living-waste-of-time thinking? Some sweeping iidiot law, could at least have made it optional. This isn't some new country with space for outdoor smoke huts, F'in smoke in my office if I want.

And who the f(ck voted Brown in!? I don't remember there being a vote what kind of democracy is this if some dude can get promoted to being Prime Minister?

shit aint gonna work

just like people smoke on the busses n trains from time to time

aint nuttin gonna change

Gonna make my job hard as fuk

happy for the ban, keep the smokers out. i will be able to go bingo and come out with a wiff of fag odour .... i can just see all the grannies rushing out for a quick chain smoke during the break

my workplace has already issued warnings
hooray i dont have to go work and pass by smokers
even better no smokers hanging outside the hospital entrance.

They should just ban those cancer sticks from being made and give everyone a patch. I can't stand the smell of fags although I can understand people smoking sensi.

one step closer to a police State, soon we will be calling the government... "British High Command"!!

Fine if they banned it altogether. Would smoke roll ups. But yeah... its going to be a laugh. Can really see people in Stratford Rex/Club Koko marching downstairs and outside for a 'gret every 20 mins. When you're in a club you're there for the night, lucky if the bouncers let you out for a breath of fresh air.

Bar 10 in london... the Jazz Cafe without smoke!?
People in and out of Brixton Mass on a constant?
Pool halls where you can't think about that next bwad ass trick over a cig and JD & Coke/Gin & Ginger ale?
Those all night 9pm - 6am jungle raves with MORE traffic?
Concerts....?
Football staidums?

Nah man, its gonna be some iiidiot business. They'd have to have smoking sections for concerts and sports events, it'd be pointless. Whoi are the bouncers gonna get it .lol.

Where do you work DM?

I think this is a great move. Cigarette smokes stinks and it's deadly, there's no good reason why people should have to deal with it in public places. Now clubs and bars will be much nicer environments for everyone. The ban will work, this isn't the first place it has been successfully introduced. If it can work in Ireland, it can work here. Furthermore, any premises that don't enforce the law can end up with £2000 fines, so business owners are not going to want to risk getting fined just because of a few people who find it hard to obey THE LAW. Their own security staff will be expected to enforce the ban and eject people who are smoking.

Certain boroughs are really taking the enforcement of this law seriously, and are hiring people to patrol businesses to make sure no one smokes. Other boroughs are not taking on staff to enforce it and have a more laid back approach, so whether you get caught and fined smoking may come down to luck. Like getting on a bendy bus without a ticket. Or travelling through zone 1 on a travelcard that isn't valid in zone 1. I think most smokers will be willing to risk being fined at first and then if they see that it's too difficult to get away with it, they will obey THE LAW.

I hear they are now thinking about ways to enforce it in the homes of people who have children. That sounds a bit trickier to do, but I do understand the reasoning behind that too. I think expectant mothers who smoke should have social services all up in their business from the moment it is noted they are doing it. I understand it can be hard to stop smoking but there has never been a better time than now.