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27th Mar 2015Dragonmum commented on:
Are you feeling happier as you get older?Hips were condemned 10 years ago - still in use but not for much longer methinks. Hearing-aid playing up but not to worry - I live in a country where I have a comfortable bed, more than enough to eat, health-care when needed - what's not to be happy about? O.K Politics in UK is a joke, but apart from that............?ViewDate:
25th Feb 2015Dragonmum commented on:
Should smoking be brought back into pubs?I was interested in the comment that "... we now know that passive smoking is worse than being a smoker yourself" Could you please link to any research or citation that confirms this? In the five years since I kicked my 60+year smoking habit and switched to vaping (electronic cigarettes) I have done a massive amount of research on the subject but, until now, have never seen that claim even from the most dedicated ANTZ (anti-nicotine and tobacco zealots). I am still engaged in this research since, despite vaping being 95% - 99% safer than smoking, there are vested interests such as Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, not to mention Governments with their eyes on diminished tobacco revenues, who are intent on subjecting vaping to the same laws as smoking. Not only do I believe that the anti-smoking laws were divisive and based on very questionable research, I am becoming more and more convinced that they had very little to do with Public Health - if that were the case then surely they would have welcomed the massively safer option of vaping with open arms. There are now something like 29 million e-cig users Euro-wide, 2 +million here in UK and. since the vast majority of us are those ex-smokers who were demonised over the last decades as evil-smelling lepers, we are quite determined to oppose any bans. Should anyone be in doubt about the advisability of switching to vaping I can only say that in all the years since e-cigs took off not one single fatality has resulted from the proper use. If you want to go on smoking, that is your right and your choice and there should be as much provision made for your comfort as for that of non-smokers - you are, after all, contributing £12billion per annum in revenue as against the £2-3 billion that smoking disease costs the NHS.ViewDate:
2nd Feb 2015Dragonmum commented on:
Should smoking be brought back into pubs?This is not a "Yes" or "No" situation. Why can we not just give the landlords or owners of these premises the right to choose whether they will allow smoking or not? We have now reached the insane situation where people want electronic cigarettes banned in public houses/places - no-one suffers from the use of these, neither the user nor those around them and they are certainly far less obnoxious than heavy perfumes, aftershave or indeed the little darlings who are now the bane of those of us who see a pub as a place for adults rather than a creche.