New Anti-Smoking laws for Melbourne
I haven’t really been reading the news, but I found an article about the new smoking laws in Victoria.
From the Tobacco Reforms Victoria web site, I found that from 1st July 2007, smoking will be prohibited in:
- enclosed licensed premises.
- outdoor dining or drinking areas where there is a roof in place and walls that cover more than 75% of the total notional wall area.
I personally cannot wait for these laws to start. I would prefer to even see the second point be extended to say ‘Not smoking in any outdoor area where food/drink is served‘ like what Brisbane has. Comments about the issue on the Age website seem to follow my opinion also.
It shits me that everytime I go out somewhere, I have to breathe smoke. It’s rubbish, and these laws are great.
Bring on July 1st 2007 - I’ll mark my calendar now! I know what you mean about wanting it to be like Brisbane…if only!
i can’t imagine anti smoking laws coming into effect in the territory. i would much rather smell cigarette smoke then the BO from most of our local indigenous population.
haha I wouldn’t have ever thought about that. I guess it’s a different world all the way up there.
The arguments made in some of the stuff I read suggested that smoking should be banned because it’s not only foul smelling, but causes cancer. I wonder if their BO causes cancer too?
it causes me to appreciate the smell of driving past the local sewage works alot more. Perhaps this is why it is situated between town and a local community, to shock your nose and prepare it for what’s ahead.
Mate, I agree. I am sick of sitting outside at a cafe and getting smoke in my face. And walking down the street can be a pain if there are smokers around. Ban it all
You guys should move to Brisbane. The antismoking laws are tops.
Dude … you should see London everyone smokes everywhere.. it sux ass.. There is not even non smoking areas in some eating joints.. and if there is people ignore the rules..
anti smoking laws suck ass, if u dont want to breathe smoke then u should just stay at home or go to no smoking places!!
The way I see it is that Anti-Smoking laws rock, and if you want to breathe smoke, you should just stay at home and kill yourself or just go outside
I’ve been waiting for this to happen. If you go for a walk in the middle of Perth there are smokers everywhere, its just terrible. People who smoke just don’t have any self respect.
These new anti smoking laws are a joke !!!!. I am from brissbane and moved to melbs to get away from these shit smoking laws.
For all you sook’s who say they cant stand to breath in smoke cause it gives you asthma, it gives us cancer. Weight it up people who is getting off better ? ? ? ?.
Ohhh and the laws only mean that you can’t smoke inside pubs and in beer gardens, but doesn’;t stop people from smoking out the front of a pub so you will still get the pleasure of walking past all the smoke YUMMY.
Hooray for us. Not just for the smoke, but the fact that you moved to Melbourne
We really are lucky.
Curtis and Cath - you are obviously smokers and your pathetic additions to this forum clearly indicate you both have IQ’s lower than a snake’s belly. Maybe all that smoke you have inhaled over the years has rotted your brains. Feel free to die of lung cancer or some equally horrible smoker’s disease away from me. I like my air, clothes and hair free of preventable disgusting odours and carcinogens that ignorant people like you generate. You are clearly selfish and inconsiderate of the health issues you are inflicting on others. Go crawl back under your respective rocks and let us non smokers enjoy cigarette smoke free air. Roll on 1st July!
Oh - and in case you didn’t notice - my name “I hate smokers” may give you a general idea of what I think of your ilk.
You anti smokers a really judgmental..smokers have no self respect? whoa! I dont see why the owners of venues cant decide…If you want to go to a bar thats going to me smoky, you can. If you want to go to a bar thats smells of body odor and urine, thats fine too. Some dont like smoke ( this for me is understandable)some dont like body odour (this to me is also understandable).
A large body of evidence suggests that the risks of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease might be twice as high for non-smokers than for smokers.Just something for you to consider why you are shaking and can’t remeber who you are.
I love the excuses that smokers find to not quit. It’s gold. A higher chance of Parkinson’s disease? Bawhahahah
Whatever it takes so you can sleep at night
I love the excuses that non-smokers find to make themselves feel superior. It’s great.At the end of it all you can be fat, thin, ugly, attractive, smoker or a non-smoker but you die so i hope that makes you sleep easier.
smoking is an option so the whole free people’s country goes out the window. people have a right of choice, the fact that that choice is taken away is ridiculous. being a smoker i can see why it’s biased. but also as someone who has friends who do not smoke then i can understand where your arguments are from. there’s this cafe out in melbourne where the outside area is sectioned off to two area…smoking and non smoking. perhaps people should try that out. banning smoking everywhere is going to lose money for the aus economy through people chosing to go to other places where smoking is allowed (such as staying at home) or the tobacco companies will lose their money. think about it.
like someone else said that you have a choice to just stay home or breathe in what you’re bound to anyway. the air has a lot more dangerous particles than smoke. smoke doesnt disappear, it disperses so for you to think that banning smoking on the streets is gonna help you then let e just laugh at you. you’re still breathing it in anyway…didnt you know that secondary/passive smoking is more dangerous than smoking itself?
ps: to ihatesmokers
they might smoke…they might get lung cancer…and of course they will die. everyone is bound to dying. but honestly…just because you can’t hack it doesnt mean you have the right to discriminate anyone’s IQ level. you dont know them on a personal level and quite frankly i think you’ve just placed alol that energy into despising smokers when you could have done something more productive … like have a life.
i would call that stupid to waste so much energy now wouldnt u?
To all you non smokers.
When are you going to realise that car fumes are much more dangerous than tobacco smoke.
I was hassled for smoking outside a cafe in Carlton, by a non smoker, who then jumped in her 4 wheel drive, started it up and then sat there with sdmoke billowing out all over the footpath.
The people sitting outside, even non smokers couldn’t believe the cheek of this “large” lady, who said it was her right to stop us smoking.
Well, to all the non-smokers in Australia, pull your heads in, because as long as smoking is legal, people have the right what to do with their life’s.
Why don’t the Government just put all the excise they get from tobacco straight into the Hospital system.
So why don’t we ban it altogether.
At the same time lets ban all 4wd in the city.
Lets get rid of buses that bellow black smoke around our cities.
Lets ban power stations that spew out Greenhouse gases.
So just as a warning to non-smokers, be very careful who you hassle in legal smoking venue’s.
Non smokers what there cake and eat it too.
What are all the non-smokers going to do in summer when they want to sit in all the good spot in the beer gardens, but are surrounded by smokers.
Will you then try and ban people from the outside venues too.
I can’t wait to see all you bleeding wowsers try to stop me from smoking ouutside.
Let the fun begin.
Hi to all the bleeding non-smokers out there.
You are all little brained people. Where is peoples free choice.
I bet half of you wankers drive big 4 Wheel drives.
Big cars no brains, but then all the no smokers I know have tiny brains.
I use to spend an average of $200 a week going out to bars and restaurants, but now I stay at home or going to friends places. All you smokers are saying that great, but talk to any one that own a bar or restaurant. There taking have gone down big time. So if they put their prices up, and I for one think they will to make up for their loses, then all you bleeding non-smokers can have another whinge.
Non smokers think they have been given the power to hassle people.
Well I agree with the guy above.
Come Summer, every smoker I know is going to go to the beer gardens.
When I get a non smoker telling me to move, after I put them through a windowe or a wall, then I will tell them to read up on the Anti Smoking Laws properly.
So a word of warning to all non-smokers, be very careful who you hassle and where you hassle them, because I for one will not hold back.
And don’t forget, all the good beer gardens are smoking venue’s and a lot of them are paid for by tobacco companies.
So have a talk to your local bar keeper or restaranteur, and see which customers they really want to keep.
Most people who own bars are still pissed off they didn’t have a say whether they wanted to be a smoking or non-smoking venue, but if you talk to them, thay would have all stayed a smoking venue.
So al message to all you non-smokers, watch your mouth over Xmas in an open air venue cause smokers are now ready to strike back.