Bars were intended for people to have a drink and a smoke if they are smokers.The smoking ban has killed the Irish pub.No more choice here.

Is that right, Caroline? As a smoker myself, am I entitled to pollute a non-smokers air if they want to go into a pub for a drink? I don’t think so.

In fairness Caroline, I smoke, but I still hate the idea of walking into a smoky room barely able to see and breathe. I enjoy a cigarette, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy being surrounded by it for 4 hours straight. Maybe it’s my generation but the idea of smoking indoors is completely foreign to me.

Non smokers should not work in bars in the first place.I will say it again the smoking ban IN BARS has killed Irish culture complrtely.

the whole plan up in smoke

Marlon, as a smoker im not a burden on anyone or any service. My cigarettes are taxed to the hilt and cost 3 times more here than in Poland. When im ill, I will expect full medical care as I have damn well paid for it in advance via the taxes levied on them. Smokers are treated like lepers across this country and then you have lemons like Richard Lennon up there talking about chimneys. Plonker!

NO.Absolutely not.Life is already short enough the way it is for creating misery to the person who smokes.Smoking might be bad for you but it is not right for a govt.to DICTATE your lifestyle.And stopping smoking should not be the issue here.I don’t smoke but I support freedom of CHOICE.

Marlon, you have a cheek to assume I am either thick or ignorant as to the risks associated with smoking. Nor am I cavalier either. I have a full medical each years and my lungs are as clear as a pain of glass. Yes smoking causes some cancers, in some people. Some smokers die of unrelated smoking diseases. Perhaps your friends smoke dope or smoke 50 to 100 cigarettes a day, I don’t know nor care really.

As for me, I might smoke 10 to twenty per day, dont smoke before 4 pm any day and like one, or a cigar with a bottle of wine or a pint in the pub. Why I should have to stand out in the cold freezing my bo**ix off like a diseased dog is beyond me. The smoking ban was rushed in and publicans were not given any assistance from the state in modifying their premises so as smokers could be as comfortable as non smoking preachers like yourself.