Survey Results - No Smoking Vote on Saturday

[bocadillo]

The official site is carrying a summary of results of the survey that took place a month or so ago.

The majority don't want to move the Kop. The majority don't want a designated singing area. The majority don't want unreserved seating. The majority don't want an adult only area.

Almost 70% want a complete ban on smoking. There will be a vote during half-time of the Leeds game.

Get those red cards ready!!

 

[Motown Fox]

Trouble is a lot of people will be downstairs getting their half time food/drink fix and not able to vote

 

[Willlow]

Trouble is a lot of people will be downstairs getting their half time food/drink fix and not able to vote

Also the majority of people that are in the stands will be smokers as that the only place the can smoke at h/t (i think) :icon_conf

Doesnt the new law thats been passed cover football stadiums?

Im sure webbo or boc will let us know!

 

[bocadillo]

Doesnt the new law thats been passed cover football stadiums?

Im sure webbo or boc will let us know!

I'm searching for something about it but can only find references to it being banned in pubs, clubs, restaurants, work-places and... private cars!!

It does seem a bit odd to have the vote at the time that most smokers will have stayed in their seats whilst others will have gone away.

 

[drummindefender]

i think it should be banned

 

[Yorkshire Vixen]

me too drum

 

[four king power]

Quite like the odd ciggie at the football

 

[Polar Bear]

Football ground is not an enclosed space. Why should smoking be banned? Fed up of the 'ban this ban that' mentality - I don't drive so why should I have to put up with cars farting in my face? Are they gonna ban people driving to the match too? Ban idiots?

And yes, I am currently trying to give up smoking...

 

[jb5000]

Apparently smoking is banned at train stations, and they're just as open air as football stadia so I guess the half-time fag's time is up.

Never mind though, have a balti pie instead ;-)

 

[Fox From The Hudd]

Football ground is not an enclosed space. Why should smoking be banned? Fed up of the 'ban this ban that' mentality - I don't drive so why should I have to put up with cars farting in my face? Are they gonna ban people driving to the match too? Ban idiots?

Even though you don't drive you do get benefits from motor transport whereas no-one else gets benefit from someone else smoking - quite lke the idea of banning idiots though...

 

[Polar Bear]

True, but when I'm walking down the street in London or Leicester (or anywhere else for that matter) and I think 'this city stinks today' it ain't fags I'm noticing. It's the whole enthusiastic 'banning' attitude that gets me, it enables governments - and football clubs! - to be superficially populist on pretty trivial issues while ignoring the 'bigger picture'.

Oh, and I did get the benefit when some drunk casual lit up a super strength biffta next to me during the Wolves game...

 

[Fox From The Hudd]

Oh, and I did get the benefit when some drunk casual lit up a super strength biffta next to me during the Wolves game...

:icon_cool

 

[bocadillo]

Apparently smoking is banned at train stations

It's only banned on stations which are regarded as being underground - this includes all Underground stations whether they are underground or not and some parts of non-Underground stations which are not underground.

If you see what I mean.

 

[bocadillo]

Football ground is not an enclosed space. Why should smoking be banned?

Most concourses could be argued to be enclosed - certainly they are at the Walkers.

What about the Millenium when they have the roof closed?

 

[Boy Genius]

Football ground is not an enclosed space. Why should smoking be banned? Fed up of the 'ban this ban that' mentality - I don't drive so why should I have to put up with cars farting in my face? Are they gonna ban people driving to the match too? Ban idiots?

And yes, I am currently trying to give up smoking...

its a fecking doddle mate, dont worry its easy......:icon_cool

 

[Polar Bear]

Was talking about the actual open stadium rather than the concourses. And football grounds shouldn't have roofs anyway, the Millennium and Amsterdam Arena are a bit shoddy in that regard (I have been to a match at the latter with the roof shut, and it was very disconcerting).

BoyGenius, I found it easy when I did it before but this year it's a nightmare! I practically bit the head off the poor woman across from me earlier when she said something that annoyed me...

 

[Boy Genius]

Was talking about the actual open stadium rather than the concourses. And football grounds shouldn't have roofs anyway, the Millennium and Amsterdam Arena are a bit shoddy in that regard (I have been to a match at the latter with the roof shut, and it was very disconcerting).

BoyGenius, I found it easy when I did it before but this year it's a nightmare! I practically bit the head off the poor woman across from me earlier when she said something that annoyed me...

so what I used to do that when I used to partake, so nothing new there. Mind you I am a miserable fecker at the best of times....

 

[Innocent]

I'd not renew my season ticket if they banned smoking. It doesn't make sense. There is NO convincing research which shows that passive smoking is a statistically-measurable risk to health, and the Walkers has the best air-con system invented - fresh air.
This entire mallarkey is constructed by a nanny state to make us feel that some people are hurting us as a nation. The last nation pre the late 20th century to ban smoking in public was Nazi Germany who also made a big issue of it. No smoking, but let's gas a few million undesirables, eh?
Alcohol is responsible for a million times more secondary effects - road traffic accidents, domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies, street fights and rapes.
Shall we close all pubs?
Shall we ban the sale of alcohol at the Walkers?
And I wouldn't dream of telling the morbidly obese woman on the row in front of me that the stink of fat in her half-time burger makes me retch.
Some of these holier-than-thou arguments on what is at best junk science and fiddled imaginary statistics make my blood boil.
And I felt exactly the same in the ten years when I gave up smoking.

 

[Durham Fox]

I'd not renew my season ticket if they banned smoking. It doesn't make sense. There is NO convincing research which shows that passive smoking is a statistically-measurable risk to health, and the Walkers has the best air-con system invented - fresh air.
This entire mallarkey is constructed by a nanny state to make us feel that some people are hurting us as a nation. The last nation pre the late 20th century to ban smoking in public was Nazi Germany who also made a big issue of it. No smoking, but let's gas a few million undesirables, eh?
Alcohol is responsible for a million times more secondary effects - road traffic accidents, domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies, street fights and rapes.
Shall we close all pubs?
Shall we ban the sale of alcohol at the Walkers?
And I wouldn't dream of telling the morbidly obese woman on the row in front of me that the stink of fat in her half-time burger makes me retch.
Some of these holier-than-thou arguments on what is at best junk science and fiddled imaginary statistics make my blood boil.
And I felt exactly the same in the ten years when I gave up smoking.

I agree with many of your points, not including the one about not renewing my ST.

(I have never been a smoker in my life.)

 

[EMC Fox]

I'd not renew my season ticket if they banned smoking. .