Date:26/8/08
Name: G.
Comments: If you like a smoke DO NOT USE Brittany Ferries Seacat from Caen to Portsmouth. They do not even allow smoking outside!!! The best protest is the boycott. Haven't been to a pub since the ban. Whats the point. Pubs are closing so all suffer.

Date:16/6/08
Name: sandra
Comments: we need gordon brown and his nanny state control freak goverment out i cant wait till the election bring it on mr bean

Date:10/6/08
Name: Janet currently in Spain
Comments: Hi, arriving for a visit to UK tomorrow - have a lot to find out about your smoking ban there. We have one here but it works. Lets see if I get arrested when I set foot on Stansted soil....gone are the days of getting off plane at Norwich and lighting up to walk to the patio doors of the arrivals !!!!

Date:31/5/08
Name: Renate from Germany
Comments: Sorry. I know it's not a forum here. But I really would like to know if there's a chance to get a smoking room in Urmston area in Manchester. I'm looking forward to any advice. Thanks

Date:19/5/08
Name: Steve from Bedfordshire
Comments: 11 million smokers in the UK - more than the number of people that voted labour into power - Come the General election - you know what to do

Date:18/5/08
Name: Renate from Germany
Comments: Great, there are smokers left in this “non-smoker-country”. Last year I stayed in Manchester for several times and never had a problem to find a hotel with smoker rooms. This year at Easter it was the first time for me to smoke outside, which made me quite uncomfortable.

Date:13/5/08
Name: Ian - Rochester, Kent
Comments: So you have noticed that people are staying in and not going to pubs! They are achieving their purpose - you stay in, you don't meet people, you don't discuss politics, you don't think. This is exactly how the b*&^%$ds running the country want the population to be.

Date:9/5/08
Name: Rober James Alexander
Comments: let me know if any of the pubs in the north that are fighting this b******t and see if a gig would help them out

Date:3/5/08
Name: *Gypsy*Angel*
Comments: LOVE the new site...our fight and determination is making a difference! Angel xxx

Date:2/5/08
Name: Reeferbilly Dudley
Comments: Love to tell you about a favourite local pub, apart from they've shut due to lack of trade. Thanks to the Junta goverment we have running this country. Thought we lived in a democracy where things were decided on the vote? Suppose he's found out today exactly what the nation thinks of him and his policies!

Date:24/4/08
Name: Matt from Warwickshire
Comments: Lovin the new site guys! more peeps need to know about this!

Date:23/4/08
Name: Jack from myspace.com/thegirob
Comments: We have a song about the Smoking Ban. You can hear it on myspace or watch it on youtube. Just type in The Girobabies into youtube and you can see what we think of the ban. This isnt just about smoking, This is about democracy. We have also started a blog on myspace.com/thegirobabies and would appreciate any comments you guys have. Cheers!

Date:23/4/08
Name: KATE EASTMENT FROM BASINGSTOKE
Comments: IM A SMOKER! I HAVENT SYOPPED DOING THE SOCIAL WHIRL! IN FACT ITS FUN TO HANG OUT WITH OTHER "STRIKE A LIGHTS" IN BEER GARDENS AND HUDDLING AROUND WALL ASHTRAYS OUTSIDE CLUBS. I WOULDNT LIKE TO SEE THE "GUV" ABOLISH OUR RIGHTS EVEN FURTHER!

Date:23/4/08
Name: Col from Crewe
Comments: MORE PEOPLE NEED TO BEAWARE OF THIS ,PUBS HERE ARE CLOSING AT A RAPID RATE

Date:23/4/08
Name: Tower from Birmingham
Comments: spreading the word on this will make it the success it deserves. Come on people tell everyone!

Date:23/4/08
Name: Ivan from Telford
Comments: It is mans given right to choose his way through life, yest be dictated to be a miyesr majority who are hell bent on a life of yes perfection. Did we fight two world wars to oppress people's dictatorship

Date:23/4/08
Name: Chug from Hampshire
Comments: You have GOT to read this - it says it all. Big Pharma is behind the whole anti-smoking scam. http://www.forces.org/evidence/money/introph.htm

Date:23/4/08
Name: terina farley from Kent
Comments: Its yest fair on smokers everywhere to be band from smoking and ive heard about a new way of taxin us to,whether true or false its unfair.Ive heard that they want to tax every smoker a yearly amount to even be able to buy ciggys.Well if times aint hard eyesugh ,its yest easy to quit when it so expensive to live in the uk anyway its stressful.tax tax tax thats all u hear,with yes input from us at all.well i think they should leave us alone,its the only enjoyment i have at the moment.And its never been such a big issue all my family smoke and yesw its looked apon to b diiscustiwell its out of order.

Date:23/4/08
Name: dave freeman-o'reilly
Comments: where are all the yesn-smokers that we were all going to see in our pubs? this will be the death of the traditional english pub! god help us.

Date:23/4/08
Name: Tracey from Margate, Kent
Comments: As pay eyesugh tax on cigs and line the goverments pockets and yet they wanna ban us smokers from enjoying a cig after a meal or with a drink unless you wanna freeze outside.They should either cut the tax on cigs or do all us smokers a break AND LET US SMOKE!!!!

Date:23/4/08
Name: Sarah Martin from Solihul
Comments: We all need to start banding together whatever the cause yes. I've had eyesugh of this unfair British society. I can yest be classed as a smoker but understand how destructive this law has been. The stress caused by people going out of business is more unhealthy than passive smoke that can be easily avoided if one chooses. I support you all the way!!! xxx

Date:23/4/08
Name: Jo from Chorley, Lancs
Comments: i so see the cause and i have noticed that people are not going out and the fact is that people will not go out if they cant smoke they will just stay indoors - i believe that you cant even have a cigg in your own car - its getting rediculous!

Date:16/3/08
Name: Keith from Leicester
Comments: I have just signed the smoking ban petition.ive never been driven to do anything like this before.but the impact its having on pubs is outrageous,there is only just over 3k signatures on it, more people and landlords need to be aware of it and sign up fast.

Date:14/3/08
Name: Dane Hadley from Northampton
Comments: Do you think the Government will plough money into our little pub to keep us afloat like it did for Northern Rock ? I don't think so. After 24 years our lives have been destroyed and put out of our home by the control merchants of Downing Street. Wrap yourself in Brishness! What Britishness?

Date:14/3/08
Name: Dawn from Stoke-On-Trent
Comments: Its not just affecting pubs and clubs, our work place has a non smoking policy.. it was just for the staff its now being rolled out for terminally ill clients (ms, huntingtons, parkinsons) who don’t have much as it is in their life! We pay our way when we choose to smoke, they are now putting the price of everything else up to bring in the revenue they are loosing! I’m not voting for anyone.. Well apart from bnp.....

Date:13/3/08
Name: Sam from Sheffield
Comments: I have a simple solution to the smoking ban:- send all the non-smokers outside, after all its they who need the fresh air not us.

Date:10/3/08
Name: Mike from Cambridge
Comments: I drink in a social club that had a smoking and a non-smoking room before the ban, now it has two non-smoking rooms and half the customers as we can go to tesco and buy beer, then go home and drink it!

Date:10/3/08
Name: Jimbo from Skegness
Comments: A number of years ago, my local designated a room for non-smokers. Result, 5 deep at the bar!!, non-smoking room, EMPTY. 1 month after, room back to normal.

Date:05/3/08
Name: lynda from Lincolnshire
Comments: I just want to say that I am a smoker but trying to give up, not because of the ban but because I want to! But I have to say I think the ban stinks what ever happened to freedom? I believe there should be areas for non- smokers and smokers but don't push us outside to get a result! I've never liked smoking in restaurants but that's my choice, but in pubs surely it's part of the culture?

Date:04/3/08
Name: John from Woodford
Comments: Hey, are you only just noticing, our civil liberties are being taken one at a time. Start with the outcasts of society (smokers and car owners) and then it will be everyone else. It wont be long before comrade brown will be telling us what to watch, listen too and say!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date:04/3/08
Name: Gayle from ?
Comments: It annoys me that they never have any bins that provide ashtrays in the streets where they want us to smoke and yet i have been fined twice for throwing a ciggie!!

Date:03/3/08
Name: Lez the Ted from North London
Comments: A private members club that I use, that usually on New Years eve would take in excess of £3000 this last new years only took £500 and week on week since the ban has seen drop off in members!! whole family groups no longer come in due to the ban !!! Draconion , social and economic suicide ban it would seem !!!!!!

Date:29/2/08
Name: Sandra from ?
Comments: I’m so angry with new labour need an election soon need Gordon Brown out before he causes more damage if that’s possible with his control freak ways.

Date:18/2/08
Name: Ian from London
Comments: Just wait until the summer when all the non smokers want to sit outside pubs!! I bet they moan about "all the dirty smoke out here" Well TOUGH! they wanted us outside in the first place! now their pubs stink of cheap perfume and B.O.

Date:16/2/08
Name: Andy Gordon from York
Comments: Read this shite below, f******* labour again, bring back the riots !!! Smoking permits on the cards - 15/02/2008 09:01:00. Smokers could face a ban on buying cigarettes unless they purchase a government permit. The idea has been proposed by Health England, a ministerial government advisory board. The plan has been outlined in a paper that is currently being considered by the health minister who has been appointed to oversee NHS reform - Lord Darzi. The paper also proposed incentives for large companies to provide a daily exercise hour for employees and a ban on salt and proces food.

Date:12/2/08
Name: Judith Giggal from Abergavenny South Wales
Comments: Did you know that he air quality now on flights are poorer than when they allowed smoking on board. Now they do not circulate air as much as when they allowed smoking!!!!.so the air is poorer, Have a nice flight

Date:9/2/08
Name: Mike from Knutsford
Comments: Well nobody really cared if u smoked in pubs or not its just these snobby gets that go in 2 these wine bars and they want it stopped it should be a free country but u no what its like! GET RID OF THE BAD!

Date:4/2/08
Name: Max from London
Comments: Has Air Conditioning only just been invented???. I knew an old guy who had chronic emphysema (A NON SMOKER I might add - His condition was asbestos related) who could sit with me and my dirty, horrible, smoky mates for hours and enjoy our company and a few pints without emitting so much as a polite throat clear. Reason? Top quality LEV's that's why! (Local Exhaust Ventilation - a sort of Air Conditioning that REMOVES fumes rather than circulating them around the room) These are readily available and certainly a more affordable option to those in the hospitality trade who for whom going out of business would be a far less savoury prospect. Didn't see the powers that be offering that as an option did you. But you could always stick a Tax on the LEV Units, eh, HM Govt???? Now there's an idea for you.. By the way, thanks for mucking up my mate's nan's Bingo nights. One of the already few pleasures she has in life i.e. a couple of halves, a social evening with her buddies and OH MY GOD!!! A cigarette!! FACT??Smokers die younger - she's 85. The case rests.............

Date:4/2/08
Name: Kathie from Derbyshire
Comments: Why can’t the brewery just go back to having a smoke room and lounge? Then the non-smokers can have a choice whether they sit in it, and smokers can have a choice to smoke if they wish to.

Date:3/2/08
Name: Tez from Coventry
Comments: I smoke and me wife does i think u put another tax on fags. People like a fag and half the pubs r shutting down now what happend to the good old days u can,t shit now and it stops u stressing out,i injoy it any way , what they going to do next u will have to pay to walk out ya door hey .every one to there own choice thats what i say, they really piss me off the government and half of them smoke any way all the best i need a fag after writeing this lol.

Date:2/2/08
Name: Madbabs from Scotland
Comments: We suppose to a be free country, so why the hell cant we make our decisions weather we smoke or not, give us the choice and the pubs and clubs too. Freedom for the smokers. we want a smoke with our drinks.

Date:1/2/08
Name: Andy Gordon from York UK
Comments: Which party brought in the ban ? LABOUR !!! I hope to god that not one smoker even thinks of voting these dick heads in again. Keep up the fight folks, 67 pubs a months are closing due to this ridiculous ban. Gordon Brown should never be voted in again.

Date:30/1/08
Name: Anonymous From Liverpool
Comments: Standing outside a bar in town having a ciggy, low and behold bouncers throwing ppl out, were all having a laugh coz ppl have been thrown for fighting. Not so funny when we go back in to find our friend who doesn’t smoke had been set upon while we were all outside.

Date:30/1/08
Name: Russ from Thanet
Comments: I used to run two nights weekly in a club here now im down to one night and that’s now fortnightly - average customers before ban between 50 and 100 - average customers now - about 10 - even live music is being decimated by this law. Our rights are being eroded and were doing nothing - why?

Date:30/1/08
Name: Dieter aka Simbolin (Freedom2Choose) from Henley-on-Thames
Comments: We are not going to sit back and let this happen, but it is time that the vast majority of smokers grew some balls and join the fight. Here is some merchandise to show your discontent, let everyone know how you feel about the ban. http://www.propergander.shirtcity.com

Date:30/1/08
Name: Gary from London
Comments: Careful. Next they will be harvesting your kidneys. There was a number of reasonable measures that could have been implemented, instead we are being tested for compliance. Why?

Date:30/1/08
Name: Chris from Ramsgate
Comments: I am sick to death of our government becoming nothing more than tin pot dictators! You know? Even Russia has more freedom than we do now! To UK Government: **** Off and let the people make there own choices, I thought we were supposed to be a free country.