UK & smoking

[Derek S]

Id LOVE to see us adopt with Eire has and ban smoking in all public places including pubs and bars.

Id also love to see the already high tax increased 10 fold to attempt to price smoking out of the marketplace.

Here in Upstate, NY, we have said laws, and it is illegal to smoke in public places like bars, restaurants, ect.

Also, they have taxed the sh|t out of cigs here in NY, where the average pack will run you anywhere from $5 - $7. (2.77695 GBP - 3.88935 GBP). I don't know if that is expensive or not to you guys, but here in the states, $5 for a pack of cigs is a legal form of robbery.

 

[Derek S]

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!

As a current smoker who is new to diving and attempting to slow down/quit, I beg to differ. Smoking, even in recreational diving can have a HUGE negative impact. I can honestly say that I know for a fact that my smoking has affected my diving, and it is one of the huge reasons I am quitting.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Most European countries have a very active smoking pecentage. You should checkout South Africa, they do pretty well down there too.

 

[asmith5]

As a current smoker who is new to diving and attempting to slow down/quit, I beg to differ. Smoking, even in recreational diving can have a HUGE negative impact. I can honestly say that I know for a fact that my smoking has affected my diving, and it is one of the huge reasons I am quitting.

I am in the same situation. I am working on quitting as well. I find that I go through a tank more quickly when I have smoked right before going down. I usually don't smoke immediately before a dive so that I can reduce the CO level in my system before going down. Smoking is a bad habit that I wish I never picked up. Hopefully getting into diving will give me another reason to quit.

 

[DORSETBOY]

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.

lol, yeah you're probably right! Heard that one in a bar after several chang!

 

[String]

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.

None of the statistics here back that up at all.

Most common criminals and various oppertunistic robbers which make up the vast majority of crime here dont go to the effort of finding a black market illegal firearms supplier and consequently arent armed.

You also dont get incidents of domestic arguments or neighbourly disagreements ending in shootings.

Britain already had a fairly low gun crime figure, since the clamping down ban it dropped further still and violent crime dropped correspondingly.

Gun control works.

 

[DORSETBOY]

yep, agree with you there string, other than those involved in farming I cant see any justification for allowing guns outside the hands of the millitary / spec police. Not far from where I live in Scotland there's a school where several children were killed by a lunatic with a legal gun before the controls came in.

At the cost of losing 'gun related' sports, I'd quite happily know incidents like the one above are now highly unlikely to happen again. Guns are designed for one purpose only, to kill, they should not be part of a civilised society.

 

[String]

Sorry ive got to ask this, been bugging me for a while...

You're Welsh, living in scotland so why the hell are you called DorsetBoy ?!

 

[DORSETBOY]

I was born in Wales, lived in Dorset for 12 years or so before going back to Wales and hence on to Scotland... It was when I was out in thailand a bit wasted on several bottles of chang and the name seemed a good idea at the time!

... I blame the chang lol.