Choking on smoking
Yet another lily-livered promise from health officials to ban smoking in public within five years:
"We have asked for a total ban. But we might have to compromise because smokers will put up a fight," he said.
So despite the fact that cancer and heart disease rates are soaring in the sandlands, health officials don't actually have the cojones to stand up to the cancer-stick cabal. Pathetic.
"The 2002 Global Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the Ministry of Health found that 23 per cent of boys and 31.3 per cent of girls in the UAE tried smoking before the age of ten."
And who can blame them? Small sheikhlets may as well pick up the habit as early as possible to acclimatise to the thick smog of other people's fumes they will be forced to breathe their entire lives, thanks to the sheer flaccidity of their health officials.
Utterly, totally, pathetic.
"We have asked for a total ban. But we might have to compromise because smokers will put up a fight," he said.
So despite the fact that cancer and heart disease rates are soaring in the sandlands, health officials don't actually have the cojones to stand up to the cancer-stick cabal. Pathetic.
"The 2002 Global Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the Ministry of Health found that 23 per cent of boys and 31.3 per cent of girls in the UAE tried smoking before the age of ten."
And who can blame them? Small sheikhlets may as well pick up the habit as early as possible to acclimatise to the thick smog of other people's fumes they will be forced to breathe their entire lives, thanks to the sheer flaccidity of their health officials.
Utterly, totally, pathetic.
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18 Comments:
What about banning anti-smoking-moaners?
I remember people moaning about smoking on aircraft...so they banned it, oh goodie I thought....then I flew and could hardly breath. I think they cut back on the amount of oxygen packs they use on a flight. I had a better air supply on the smoking flights.
Balushi, smoking and alcohol are rather different things.
Smoking stinks and makes non-smokers ill when they smell it. As a smoker smoking around non-smokers, you are being inconisderate and rude and are drastically affecting the quality of life of people who are simply unfortunate enough to be near you whilst you puff away.
When I walk around Dubai's malls, I'm constantly breathing in the stench of other people's smoke. It's disgusting.
If I go to a bar, I'm, breathing in other people's smoke, but there's no foul stink coming from my beer that will give the person next to me breathing problems, make his clothes reek or give him cancer and other lung diseases.
If you want to kill yourself, that's fine, but have some courtesy to those around you who probably would prefer not to breathe in acrid tobacco smoke.
balushi and cg seem to be smokers so they (or he) tries to divert the attention to alcoholics, if they werent smokers - the case would have been vice versa.. anyway - i dont think smoking a cigarette can burn down an aircraft but yea all the smoke to could surely suffocate ppl onboard - hence the ban, maybe ppl already arent very comfortable flying and smoking could add to it.
flights now have a set of seats for smokers and another side for non smokers.. so what ur problem ppl?
as for banning smoking - they tried it last year but obviously - Dubai doesnt capitalise on oil, it does on SHOPPING MALLS!!, and if smoking was to be banned there.. that means malls would lose 75% of their customers and.. all the top notch brands would stop coming here and then..no1 would come here from all over the world to shop and then no expats would move here and blah blah.. eventually Dubai will return to being a desert..but somewhere in the middle they would 'unban' smoking...then Dubai will become this famous global attention seeker tourist spot becuz now again we have a billion malls and then WHO takes interest and they ban smoking again and blah.. n blah.. n blah n blah.. its all a vicious circle!!
hehehe, HOW ARE GUYS EVEN JUSTIFYING WHICH IS WORSE!
but.. i wouldnt bother going and smelling the breath of the guy sitting on the next table, there it wouldnt bother me, but if that same guy was smoking, it would bother me cuz i would be breathing the smoke.
and balushi was dating her hoping she'd turn out to be like her mother?
no offence honey
smoking - Human Right?!?!
well smoking impresses women is a misconception - take that from one!
how many agree?
I think you're missing the point, Balushi.
Drinking and driving is illegal.
If you go to a bar, you go there knowing it is a place where alcohol is served. If you're doing your shopping and people are smoking around you, there's no need to go near the smoker to smell his breath, you can smell him from a mile off.
Personally I think a total ban is excessive. Have some decent smoking areas setup as a first step. A total ban will probably be unenforceable. I'd prefer smokers to be coralled into a smoking area than totally ignoring the ban and continuing to smoke anyhwere and everywhere.
Totally banning smoking in shopping malls would probably affect the cafes there, but not the shops. The people you see wandering around smoking are typically not the people doing the buying. They mainly seem to be men with not much better to do than, er wander around.
Give them a smoking area in Starbuck's and Costa's by all means, make sure people respect it and you have the best of both worlds.
Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution
balushi.. try article 24 - thats what ur actually aiming at.. if everyone has the right to enjoy - why cant i enjoy the breath of fresh/ clean air?
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It's sickening that children under 10 have smoked. It's mostly peer pressure that's driving them to do this. Like Balushi says he started smoking to "impress a women", these kids are doing it either to impress the opposite sex and let the world know about the liberty they have or they're just doing it because they have a weird liking for it. Gah!
By the way, Balushi, if nicotine kills bacteria, you don't have to blow smoke in our faces because, hey, we didnt' ask for any antibiotics. You can smoke in your own room and kill all the bacteria you want and when you have crossed the 10,000 mark, you'll get a prize.
"We only smoke a d@mn cigarrette!"
You're more than welcome to your cigarette, just don't make others smell the smoke. A similar principle applies to defecating.
whassup with balushi the blog troll....camping on this URL since this morning?
I think you're better off drinking...smoking is too 'light' for you. Isn't Balushiland far easier to get to with a swig? On the rocks please. Pun intended!
omg this is hilarious hahhahaha...i loved how balushi said...why do bars have PARKING SPACES if drunken driving is banned looooooooooooool...where's logic these days.
فناان :)
Harsha
What do you know about me anyway? I advise you to be less presuming in future.
Now go and breathe in Balushis smoke, it might clear your brain cells out.
CG
hmmm maybe THATS whats clogging my brain in the first place!
Good post SD...
Balushi: you sad un-intelligent man. Get a life. I hope you die a long slow death from lung cancer you misogynistic cretin.
grinch,
The airconditioning in modern aircraft is some of the cleanest air on planet earth.
The air you breathe in modern jets is taken from the engine where it is heated by compression to about 800C. It then passes through an "air cycle machine" which cools, re-heats, then ultimately cools the air again before it enters the cabin. The air which is recycled from the cabin passes through heppa filters which further clean the air. The humidity level in a modern cabin on a jet is about 3-4%. Not much in the way of viral or bacterial life forms survives this. You are in more danger of catching a cold by sitting next to an infected person on a bus or in a car or at home.
The reason smoking is banned on aircraft is two fold really. It is primarily for safety, as combustible material abounds. Secondarily, the buildup of tar deposits from cigarette smoke slowly affects aircraft systems like electronics and eventually adds consideralbe wieght to an aicraft as it is deposited on the inner surface of the fuselage. It is quite amazing actually.
There is no reason why there should be smoking anywhere on planet earth where children or non-smokers may be affected by second hand smoke. The needs of the many outwwiegh the needs of the few. Its that simple.
I have just read the reasons for smoking and non smoking. Absolutely hysterical, very very funny, the grammar equally mind boggling.
I started smoking when I was 15 and gave it up when I was 72. The Doc said, "Stop or you will die". As I wasn't ready to go, and still am not. I stopped. If I can do it it, anyone can. Just a question of finding your own reasons for quitting. Far too much evidence now for anyone to continue smoking. When I look back on my smoking years, I am truly ashamed at the bloody misery I must have caused so many people far too often.
Simply, you really are better off without it. I have the bypass scars and aneurism scars to prove it.
Caz.
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