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Originally posted by Nemo123
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Originally posted by a_2009
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Originally posted by Nemo123
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Originally posted by a_2009
I think smokers should be allowed in the house, it would be unfair to discriminate.
Based on the arguement that it encourages you to smoke, surely you face heaps of smokers throughout the day at work, or on a night out....and that this will trigger your cravings? So are you suggesting smoking should be banned full stop?
I quit over 4 months ago, I still get cravings, but i made a decision to never smoke again. I'm not going to criticise people who do smoke, I think it all comes down to choice. If anything watching people smoke now makes me personally feel quite lucky i'm no longer inhaling all that cr*p in to my lungs smoking 20 a day, and i've finally got over the addiction.
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Smoking is banned in the workplace and pubs, but you do still have to run the gauntlet of that stench at the pub door.
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So what's the difference between seeing people smoking outside work or the pub, than to seeing people smoke on BB? If you don't want to smoke, that's your choice. But you can't realistically expect everyone else to stop smoking.
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One is peer pressure, what your fellows do. A powerful force nodoubt, but until smoking is banned altogether in public, little can be done about it. What we saw tonight was a 50 minute ad for tobacco, which is illegal. I wonder how long before the ASA wakes up to this?
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Peer pressure? I guess it depends on how old a person is and the individual's will power. There comes a point where people have to take responsibility for their choices instead of blaming it on others. There's more non-smokers than there are smokers in this country, if anything smokers have become social outcasts, having to huddle in a small corner as there is nowhere else for them to smoke.
An alternative opinion is that for 50 minutes it showed the housemates interacting and during that time they were coincidently having a smoke when the 'entertaining' events occurred.