News Article Comments : Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking

RE: Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking

I don't see how this comes as a surprise.  You can't take a drink with you when you walk outside a pub to have a cigarette, so it's a bit like leaving a coat in a cloakroom:  Will you ever see it again?  So most people down their drink to be sure. 

So far the smoking ban has crippled business; introduced the associated problems with drinkers smoking outside (ie. talking too loudly, smoke drifting into the gardens of people next door, policing, and of course inevitable loutishness); increased consumption of alcohol and with that alcoholism; health issues; violence; and now people having their drinks spiked so that they can be robbed and raped.  And I suspect people smoke just as much as they did before.

Great thing being part of the European Union.  I'm glad I voted to join!

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RE: Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking

As we know so many consequences of this fiasco were predicted by those of us closely involved, but as with all things HMG, we were ignored. What we will now see is a call for pubs to re-evaluate their risk assessment to account of the danger. So perhaps that little device on the Dragons Den a few months ago may come into it's own. We could also have German style mugs and issue individual padlocks. Or we coul allow drinks outside, or we could amend the Health Act regulations to allow Regulated Indoor Air Quality Standards and allow spokers back inside. Guess which one HMG won't pick.

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No great surprise with this particular thread is there?  It was pretty much inevitable that these stories were going to surface sooner or later as another un-thought about rule brought on by the smoking ban.  I surpose licensees are being held responsible for not monitoring individuals drinks when they pop outside for a ciggie? So if we believe the government statistics then we are reducing the risk of lung cncer and other smoking related diseases but at what cost - rape, pheunomia, liver disease??????

This post replies to Les Whittaker > RE: Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking

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Consider joining up with the publicans in Birmingham

"In a special investigation, we revealed how landlords were uniting to lobby the Government to have a re-think on the legislation."

Some 69 per cent of readers voted in favour of the ban being abolished and 31 per cent against."

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/tm_headline=birmingham-mail-readers-call-for-an-end-to-pub-smoking-ban%26method=full%26objectid=20167318%26siteid=50002-name_page.html

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RE: Smoking ban leads to increase in drink spiking

Alan, The Anti Brigades conduct polls of 1000 people or so in the not so distant past and claim that the majority of the UK favours the smoking ban, what 1000 when there is a population of 50 odd million !

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