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Posted By alex mccreadie
Is it only me or will the idea of putting cigarettes under the counter not cause another load of medical problems?
It may not be deemed to be manual handling but all the bending and straightening will to me give more muscular skeletal problems than the cost to the NHS of smoking?
This will be in terms of time of work through various injuries.
To me the amount of media coverage on reasons not to smoke should have got home by now?
It is Friday and it is just a thought.
Alex
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Posted By Mitch
All the displays you see these days have roller shutters fitted!
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Posted By The toecap
I hope your mesing about with cranes today Al. It amazes me. Asbestos can causes cancers and so does smoking (if exposed to)> Asbestos gets banned and cigs don't. Does the costs of high tax out weigh the benefits of treatment? Is it me.....
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Posted By water67.
Is it me? or is it 1st April? can you imagine trying to police a ban on cigarettes.
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Posted By Andy Petrie
Burnt toast can cause cancer and I don't see an impending ban on that.
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Posted By William
Has anyone came across problems with the smoking ban not being implemented in industry yet? i am not talking about a pub, but in a manufacturing/engineering area.
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Posted By The toecap
Yes but burn toast can also cause fires and people to choke. I haven't seen any evidence though. I have seen eviddence and personal experience of smoke damage
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Posted By Mitch
Coming from a fabby background i have lots of mates in the game who are only now beginning to moan about "bein' told 'bout smokin' at work" and when pushed freely admit that smoking is still allowed on the shopfloor. Mind you most of the places I have worked resemble a dark hole based in India and have that many fumes you could smoke a fag, pipe and cigar out of different orifices at the same time and no-one would notice.
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Posted By chrisogmccann
please tell me your joking when you compare the movement of an individual lifting a pack of cig's in a cornershop to the cost of cancer and other smoking related dieases?
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Posted By Mitch
The effects of alcohol cost this country more per annum than smoking and they banned smoking in pubs! is it me?
I'm off to the pub for a pint and laugh at the smokers enjoying a soggy fag PS I am an ex smoker I packed up because I was a pint and a fag man and didn't get any enjoyment in drinking outside in the cold.
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Posted By Andy Petrie
Chriso,
it's not just one individual, it's tens of thousands of them.
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Posted By steven n
I have seen a few shops that have a vending type system whereby the shopkeeper presses a button for required brand of coffin nail and they slide down a chute into the 'keepers hand, the cigs are out of sight, jobs a good 'un.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Steven n
I have visions of the teenage thief standing there and pressing the buttons in order to steal all the stock. This must be a great crime export method.
Bob
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Posted By steven n
The button panel is behind the counter out of reach of the customer/potential thief.
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Not after closing hours!!!!
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Posted By steven n
Well if the shop is shut could they not just nick whatever they want anyway including the ciggies whether they are locked up i na vending type machine or whatever?
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Posted By steven n
If they had to stand there pressing the button for each pack rather than bundling loads into a plazzy bag would this not deter them?
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Posted By kieran hicks
Alex,
You cannot be serious!!!!
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Posted By David Bannister
This thread is too early. Next Tuesday would be the appropriate day.
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Posted By alex mccreadie
I only asked for peoples views?
Smoking is self inflicted therefore if you smoke you must be prepared to take the consequences. Yes there is passive smoking which to my knowledge has still not killed anybody?
And yes there will still be medical problems caused through in a lot of cases needless bending and crouching?
There are some obviously good ideas out there for dispensing cigarettes but will everybody use them?
Being a proud Scot I would have stopped anyway once they reached £1 pound a packet never mind the £5 they are now!
Have a nice weekend Alex
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Posted By Marcus74
"Smoking is self inflicted therefore if you smoke you must be prepared to take the consequences. Yes there is passive smoking which to my knowledge has still not killed anybody?"
Roy castle comes to mind !
Never smoked but spent years playing the Trumpet in smokey Jazz clubs and died of lung cancer!
Could have been pure coincidence I suppose !
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Posted By GeoffB4
It probably was Marcus. Unless you can prove otherwise?
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