I couldn't have chosen a better time to write about Top Gear (see below). Last night's programme featured a classic moment which you can read about HERE. Scroll down - the photos alone are hilarious. Better still, see a video clip HERE.
The facists will be out in force. Civil Servant do gooders who paid for too much and have far too little to do except hound the decent people of the UK for commiting the "Ultimate Crime" smoking. They havnt the wit or the will to sort out the criminals and the thugs so they go "tough" on the decent people.
Calm down ASH you will give yourselves a heart attack.you need to chill out a bit and be grateful that you have closed bingo halls and loads of pubs, you have done it, you are now important little people but still little people.
What's the fuss about? Surely they lit the pipes to illustrate a point.
If ASH had their way anyone who smoked would be hung, drawn and quartered.
I think they just want to get a grip and take a good look in the mirror, there are worse things going on in the world than two people lighting up on the BBC.
Good for him. Best bit of news today. Especially when, on Euston Underground station (Victoria line) I saw a very unpleasant sight.
They were trying out a new video film - above the tracks where the static ads usually are -probably some 20'wide; all in moving colour - and suddenly the eye was drawn to melodic green fields. Which then gave way to double doors to a public house. Oh goodness; camera pulled back; doors opened - to reveal that the pub doors were standing alone in a field! Bring on the text (no doubt with accompanying music, happily drowned in this case by the tannoy system) - and there we had it. England has been smoke free from 1 July. Everyone benefits.
I would like to know who sponsored this ad. It was either a cancer charity or government; but it was too quick to see. How much did it cost? How much longer are we going to have to put up with such blatant nonsense at our expense? Who has the right to say for sure that pubs are now better places - when some have already closed due to the fall in businesswith no doubt more to follow as winter bites in, . And millions of good customers have totally lost their comfort zone to which they should have a legal right.
I don't want to live in a fascist state built on someone's poor, controlling fantasy. (That is: phantasy in the psychological sense.) I sincerely hope that Simon and others will make a serious protest, not only at the assumption and ethos of this advertising, but at the total waste of money.
Good old james may for taking no notice of the draconian ban,and to ASH and the anti smokers,how come health bosses can name over 1,800 people this week who have died or suffered serious illness from Superbugs,yet fail to name just 1 person having died from secondhand smoke,claiming it would breach patient confidentiality,someone is telling Porkies here especially as the medical journal the Lancet has recently announced 85% of smokers never get Lung cancer,and the HSE in 2006 found NO Proof whatsoever of a link between passive smoke and illness in the workplace...go on i challenge you to answer my question ...i fear your silence will be deafening Debbie Arnott and ASH.
Well done Top Gear! It is a shame that more of us smokers don't stand up for OUR HUMAN RIGHTS. If we all stood up for our rights this stupid law would be overturned. Power to the People!
I watched Top Gear on Sunday and haven't laughed so much in years. Well done to all the team. Laughter is great, especially for me as I suffer depression and there is precious little to laugh about these days.
I really appreciate Jeremy's page in Sun on Saturdays too, he tells it as it is and pulls no punches - good for you Jeremy. We need more people like the Top Gear Team, who are in the spotlight to make a stand and basically take the p*ss out of the nanny state and government in this public way.
Keep Up the Good Work and don't you dare apologise!
I find the attitude of the "spokeswoman" for A S H totally abhorent. It's not the fact (yes fact) that smoking is illegal, it is fully clear that these people would love to control all aspects of others lives. It is the very reason for the complaint to support the domination of free people. Let me explain...
Censorship. As far as I understand, any show on stage or filmed must be authorised by the appropriate authorities to allow smoking with "artistic justification". This is far and beyond smoking in public places. I guess the "spokeswoman" was in the studio? and suffered from passive exhaust fumes with tax back from the goverment. Anyone whom wants to censor opinion, thought, art, literature, media, (apparently the "spokeswoman" uses media) and the free life of all people is not for free thinking.
Control. The people supporting the smoking ban and other bans (ie: Freedom of speach about all aspects of our lifes) give rise to the weakening of all our political sway to produce a balanced and free country and society.
Non smokers. Well I have many friends that do not smoke and as a human being I will not subject them to my smoke, call it respecting others. The sad thing is they are now no longer free to be in my company (and other smokers) due to the fact that we have to leave the table and decant the premises to indulge once more in giving our hard earned money to the goverment. They are good decent people who choose for themselves whom they want to know and where they want to go on any occation that takes they're fancy...no longer. Non smokers are in the same boat as smokers as control over they're social activities has been equally disrupted.
Freedom of ourselves. I support FOREST for the very reason that everyone (smokers and non smokers alike and all people on this earth) deserves the freedom of choice and I really believe that people are good and decienct and that humanity exists within us all without the need for goverment intervention to establish and control our lives.
I believe that these twisted zealots should always be referred to as this in any email, interview, letter, conversation etc.from now on.
The old chinese proverb.... 'to destroy the enemy, first destroy the image'.
I hope you all agree,including all at 'Forest' and maybe this name will filter down to the public and the media, and so portray them as they really are.
What I want to know is - how is it that, according to what I hear, Spain largely ignores the ban; even to the point of smoking in restaurant kitchens? Paris has been described as the mecca of professional smokers. How is that these Euro countries can do this, and we can't? Have I missed something, or are their govts. choosing to interpret 'law' differently from us? If so, why? We seem to have rolled over with our paws in the air. Makes a total mockery of two world wars and all those who gave their lives for our freedom from fascist control and hatred.
By the way, keep an eye on the Sunday Express. Editor Martin Townsend has had some v. good reporting and articles on pubs closing because of the ban. One of the few editors who has had the guts to tell it like it is.
It is about time these ASH bigots "got a life" and left smokers alone. Nobody forces them to smoke, so why have we let them impose their evil views on us. The smoking ban needs amending, and soon!
You are missing the point that ASH win their arguments on. You say no-one is forcing them to smoke, with which I agree but they will counter by saying if smoking is allowed in public places they are being forced to smoke! They have a "dog in a manger" attitude. They want the legislation because they might want to go into a pub even though they know they probably never will. They will also start to demand bans on smokers in gardens because it is their "right" to have a smoke free atmosphere everywhere! In other words the smoker can't win. I agree they are evil.
Surely what we need urgently is another scientific view and informed public debate. This could be in tandem with the many closures coming through into the media of pubs and also (it has to be said) those bastions of freedom, the bingo halls! I have yet to see a decent tv programme which puts the argument not only for scientific debate but also for preservation of that most cherished tradition, the English pub and snug. There seems to be a dearth of either good reporting or argument in the media apart from one or two notable exceptions. I also want to know, and will keep on asking, why this was allowed to go only to Parliamentary debate of the most basic kind, and not as an election manifesto. Since the labour party reneged on their manifesto promise for a partial ban (as did the Hewitt woman within days to her very own Leicester constituency), surely we have a basic right to a Review of this legislation at the next election, by manifesto? Would this be something to ask DC at the Forest dinner?
Monday, October 15, 2007
Reader Comments (18)
I hear complaints about cigarettes being thrown out of car windows. The answer is obviously to smoke a pipe.
Hopefully they'll be back with an apology for lighting pipes on national television, and follow it up with a couple of cigarettes.
I'd just like to see ASH accuse James May of 'glamourising' anything.
I know you don't like HMG's epetition, but - go on - he deserves it!
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PMClarkson/
The facists will be out in force. Civil Servant do gooders who paid for too much and have far too little to do except hound the decent people of the UK for commiting the "Ultimate Crime" smoking. They havnt the wit or the will to sort out the criminals and the thugs so they go "tough" on the decent people.
Sack the lot and save us taxpayers a fortune.
The law apparently favours small minded biggots as far as smoking is concerned!
Bravo James May. Always thought you were a top man. Just think of all those health-fascists going apoplectic!
Calm down ASH you will give yourselves a heart attack.you need to chill out a bit and be grateful that you have closed bingo halls and loads of pubs, you have done it, you are now important little people but still little people.
What's the fuss about? Surely they lit the pipes to illustrate a point.
If ASH had their way anyone who smoked would be hung, drawn and quartered.
I think they just want to get a grip and take a good look in the mirror, there are worse things going on in the world than two people lighting up on the BBC.
Good for him. Best bit of news today. Especially when, on Euston Underground station (Victoria line) I saw a very unpleasant sight.
They were trying out a new video film - above the tracks where the static ads usually are -probably some 20'wide; all in moving colour - and suddenly the eye was drawn to melodic green fields. Which then gave way to double doors to a public house. Oh goodness; camera pulled back; doors opened - to reveal that the pub doors were standing alone in a field! Bring on the text (no doubt with accompanying music, happily drowned in this case by the tannoy system) - and there we had it. England has been smoke free from 1 July. Everyone benefits.
I would like to know who sponsored this ad. It was either a cancer charity or government; but it was too quick to see. How much did it cost?
How much longer are we going to have to put up with such blatant nonsense at our expense? Who has the right to say for sure that pubs are now better places - when some have already closed due to the fall in businesswith no doubt more to follow as winter bites in, . And millions of good customers have totally lost their comfort zone to which they should have a legal right.
I don't want to live in a fascist state built on someone's poor, controlling fantasy. (That is: phantasy in the psychological sense.) I sincerely hope that Simon and others will make a serious protest, not only at the assumption and ethos of this advertising, but at the total waste of money.
Good old james may for taking no notice of the draconian ban,and to ASH and the anti smokers,how come health bosses can name over 1,800 people this week who have died or suffered serious illness from Superbugs,yet fail to name just 1 person having died from secondhand smoke,claiming it would breach patient confidentiality,someone is telling Porkies here especially as the medical journal the Lancet has recently announced 85% of smokers never get Lung cancer,and the HSE in 2006 found NO Proof whatsoever of a link between passive smoke and illness in the workplace...go on i challenge you to answer my question ...i fear your silence will be deafening Debbie Arnott and ASH.
Well done Top Gear! It is a shame that more of us smokers don't stand up for OUR HUMAN RIGHTS. If we all stood up for our rights this stupid law would be overturned. Power to the People!
I watched Top Gear on Sunday and haven't laughed so much in years. Well done to all the team. Laughter is great, especially for me as I suffer depression and there is precious little to laugh about these days.
I really appreciate Jeremy's page in Sun on Saturdays too, he tells it as it is and pulls no punches - good for you Jeremy. We need more people like the Top Gear Team, who are in the spotlight to make a stand and basically take the p*ss out of the nanny state and government in this public way.
Keep Up the Good Work and don't you dare apologise!
Dear sirs and ladies.
I find the attitude of the "spokeswoman" for A S H totally abhorent. It's not the fact (yes fact) that smoking is illegal, it is fully clear that these people would love to control all aspects of others lives. It is the very reason for the complaint to support the domination of free people. Let me explain...
Censorship. As far as I understand, any show on stage or filmed must be authorised by the appropriate authorities to allow smoking with "artistic justification". This is far and beyond smoking in public places. I guess the "spokeswoman" was in the studio? and suffered from passive exhaust fumes with tax back from the goverment. Anyone whom wants to censor opinion, thought, art, literature, media, (apparently the "spokeswoman" uses media) and the free life of all people is not for free thinking.
Control. The people supporting the smoking ban and other bans (ie: Freedom of speach about all aspects of our lifes) give rise to the weakening of all our political sway to produce a balanced and free country and society.
Non smokers. Well I have many friends that do not smoke and as a human being I will not subject them to my smoke, call it respecting others. The sad thing is they are now no longer free to be in my company (and other smokers) due to the fact that we have to leave the table and decant the premises to indulge once more in giving our hard earned money to the goverment. They are good decent people who choose for themselves whom they want to know and where they want to go on any occation that takes they're fancy...no longer. Non smokers are in the same boat as smokers as control over they're social activities has been equally disrupted.
Freedom of ourselves. I support FOREST for the very reason that everyone (smokers and non smokers alike and all people on this earth) deserves the freedom of choice and I really believe that people are good and decienct and that humanity exists within us all without the need for goverment intervention to establish and control our lives.
With regards
The 'CULT of ASH'.
I believe that these twisted zealots should always be referred to as this in any email, interview, letter, conversation etc.from now on.
The old chinese proverb.... 'to destroy the enemy, first destroy the image'.
I hope you all agree,including all at 'Forest' and maybe this name will filter down to the public and the media, and so portray them as they really are.
What I want to know is - how is it that, according to what I hear, Spain largely ignores the ban; even to the point of smoking in restaurant kitchens? Paris has been described as the mecca of professional smokers. How is that these Euro countries can do this, and we can't? Have I missed something, or are their govts. choosing to interpret 'law' differently from us? If so, why? We seem to have rolled over with our paws in the air. Makes a total mockery of two world wars and all those who gave their lives for our freedom from fascist control and hatred.
By the way, keep an eye on the Sunday Express. Editor Martin Townsend has had some v. good reporting and articles on pubs closing because of the ban. One of the few editors who has had the guts to tell it like it is.
It is about time these ASH bigots "got a life" and left smokers alone. Nobody forces them to smoke, so why have we let them impose their evil views on us. The smoking ban needs amending, and soon!
NoBanJan
You are missing the point that ASH win their arguments on. You say no-one is forcing them to smoke, with which I agree but they will counter by saying if smoking is allowed in public places they are being forced to smoke! They have a "dog in a manger" attitude. They want the legislation because they might want to go into a pub even though they know they probably never will. They will also start to demand bans on smokers in gardens because it is their "right" to have a smoke free atmosphere everywhere! In other words the smoker can't win. I agree they are evil.
Surely what we need urgently is another scientific view and informed public debate. This could be in tandem with the many closures coming through into the media of pubs and also (it has to be said) those bastions of freedom, the bingo halls! I have yet to see a decent tv programme which puts the argument not only for scientific debate but also for preservation of that most cherished tradition, the English pub and snug. There seems to be a dearth of either good reporting or argument in the media apart from one or two notable exceptions. I also want to know, and will keep on asking, why this was allowed to go only to Parliamentary debate of the most basic kind, and not as an election manifesto. Since the labour party reneged on their manifesto promise for a partial ban (as did the Hewitt woman within days to her very own Leicester constituency), surely we have a basic right to a Review of this legislation at the next election, by manifesto? Would this be something to ask DC at the Forest dinner?