UK & smoking

[underwater daphne]

uk isn't that bad at all. maybe compared to the states coz there you can't smoke anywhere at all, so you're not used to seeing so many smokers. cigarettes are sooo expensive in england that ppl only buy small packets and most likely smoke less than in other european countries. whenever i'm in london, i don't give the beggars money, i give em fags.

 

[cdiver2]

Gun control will never solve a problem with crime. Criminal control and attitude change will.

Read strings reply I hope this answers the question for you.
The point I was trying to get at though was not only is every country is different but also regions within a country and often a good reason for it. The first time I visited the US in the 70s I thought you were all crazy for building your homes with wood, where I come from they are all built with stone.
I later found out stone is not in plenty full supply in the US but wood is

 

[mloe]

Don´t know about the UK (last time I was there cigs were already prohibitively expensive!), but in continental europe smoking still is an accepted and widespread habit (around 43% of the population, though numbers are in a slow decline). It gets worse the further you go south and east - in Scandinavia it is banned almost in all public places, in Greece or Croatia in almost none. But I´m being anecdotal.
In Austria (where I live) around 40% of the population smoke; in my dive club this number is pretty much reflected. Almost every instructor I have ever met (on trips in Europe) has been a smoker.

I myself quit 10 weeks ago. Before that I used to have a smoke right after getting out of my BC. And before getting into it. Seems soooo stupid in retrospect, even after only being clean for around 2 months....
regards, michael

 

[DementialFaith]

Where did you dive in the UK? What were the dives like ?

sry about taking all these time in replying..... still moving into college.

My schedule was really tight in the uk, but i did manage to read any periodicals i could find and i talked to some padi people up in liverpool.

 

[String]

Ahh ok id assumed from the post youd dived here. My mistake.

 

[Warren_L]

shamed to say it but I'm one of those people who smoke mins before the dive and immediately after... like all other smokers I know the health risk inherent in smoking but in recreational diving it does not present any appreciable additional level of risk... I've even read on here an argument for smoking if you're a diver as it increases your tolerance to carbon monoxide... ok, that's clutching at straws I know!

Tolerance to CO? I kind of doubt that. CO is a competitive inhibitor to O2, so the more CO you have the less O2 you can transport.

 

[chrisch]

Most Italians smoke at some point in their life. A goodly percentage of Italian divers too. Smoking is on the decline in the UK (my home country).

The most amusing is France. France recently has introduced a mandatory annual medical. A while back we went to a dive shop and the owner sternly told us we could not dive as I did not have a medical. This was as she steadily worked her way down the second cigarette of the conversation.

Smoking and diving don't mix.

Smoking and long life don't mix.

Chris.

 

[outlawaggie]

Living in a country with no attempet at gun control

where guns are outawed only outlaws will have guns.

in other words criminals do not buy guns at the local gun store. they buy them illegaly to begin with and therefore are never touched by gun control.

The only gun control measure EVER proven to reduce crime is the passing of concealed carry laws. Florida saw a 15% decrease in violent crime the year they passed a concealed carry law.

 

[mech]

Gun control?
Gun control is 7 rounds from a 1911 in one hole.

 

[outlawaggie]

Gun control?
Gun control is 7 rounds from a 1911 in one hole.

Amen,
but, I prefer 8 rounds from a HK USP Compact .45