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2nd June 2013 #1
Davao City beware if you're a smoker.
Davao City is now a smoke free city, the penalties are tough if you're caught so please beware. There are designated smoking area's down town, please let me know if you find one.
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2nd June 2013 #2
Does that include the smoke belching tricycles and jeeps
They had a similar thing in Manila around 10 years ago. Think it actually lasted about a week. Or maybe it was 3 days
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2nd June 2013 #3
If they could include it they would but it means that drivers will lose their jobs.
Davao is too different if you compare to Manila. Many rules and laws that Mayor Duterte implemented years ago are still going so it wont surprise me that this one will be a success.
Hope it will as it will keep Davao more CLEAN.
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2nd June 2013 #4
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I remember some years ago it was also difficult to find somewhere to smoke.
Not bothered now I'm a non-smoker.
Since December 31st 2010 @ 10:30pm
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2nd June 2013 #6
What??? All vehicles these days need a smoke test before re registration..
These smoke test centers are really just revenue collectors as Ive never seen a vehicle fail here and some right nasty smoke belchers going through too..
I have no wish to visit Davao anyway..
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2nd June 2013 #7
Round the back of Abreeza they have a smoking area
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3rd June 2013 #8
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3rd June 2013 #10
Making any public place non smoking is good in my thoughts
I had a distant relative here a couple of weeks ago, we went to a nice restaurant for a meal one evenings at a popular family location,
my relation is now in a wheelchair, but getting in and out the place was made worse because of the amount of people outside the entrance smoking
As a lifelong non smoker who dislikes the smell, it was like running an obstacle course !
Mick
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3rd June 2013 #11
Yeah ... I'm sure it would be, Mick. But the reality IS ... ... WHEREVER you go - be it a pub, restaurant or anywhere else, for that matter - you'll ALWAYS find people who enjoy a cigarette after a nice meal (me for one!) - and this is WHY even just a tiny modicum of foresight on the part of dictatorial politicians such as Mayor Duterte (along with those of his ilk, worldwide) wouldn't go amiss!
Surely, it'd make sense to provide comfortable [separate] indoor Areas in bars and/or eateries for folk wishing to indulge their habit.
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3rd June 2013 #14
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That's why so many pubs have closed.
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3rd June 2013 #16
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The pub used to be a nice dark place with lots of swearing, sticky carpets and a stench of urine, beer and fags. A real 'home from home'.
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3rd June 2013 #17
's precisely my point, Mick. I mean ... for as long as the current legislation persists - and especially when the weather is foul (as it frequently IS in the British Isles) - you're gonna have smokers huddled in closes or shop doorways. Which, in turn, drives our "nation of shopkeepers" (a term used by some historical figure of notoriety to define us) - and ... ... who can really blame them, tbh???
... sadly, true!! Unless, of course, those responsible for our laws come forward with some fairer all round solution along similar lines to the one I've suggested ... in an attempt to keep ALL of us (smokers and non-smokers, alike) at least reasonably happy.
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3rd June 2013 #20
*MINE ISN'T, though! ... I've never particularly cared much for the strong "taste" of cigars ... my individual preference being to stick with ONE (extremely satisfying) after~dinner, non-filtered cigarette, daily (using a holder) - allied to a penchant for puffing away merrily on a pipe, whenever I'm online at various intervals throughout each day. Helps my concentration, y'see!
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3rd June 2013 #21
There you ARE then, folks ... the "Confessions of a Secret Smoker" as revealed to my friends here on the forum; otherwise, very few "outsiders" are aware of my "addiction".
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3rd June 2013 #23
On the journey from Kabankalan to Dumaguete the bus stopped off for about ten minutes in a place called Mabini. I was just about to spark up when the bus conductor pointed to a sign which said that Mabini was a smoke free zone. Two more hours to Dumaguete and found they had the same policy. It wasn't too bad as the bars and restos allowed it and you could smoke by sari-sari's too.
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Arthur, you're welcome at my humble abode anytime ....but please remember to use the temporary shelter in the back yard when you light up....many thanks.
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4th June 2013 #29
Arthur, i did notice you enjoyed a puff every now and then Due to my irregular connection i was unable to reply at the time.
The smoking ban in Davao/Manila or any other city in the Philippines is public officials seeing the small issues and being totally blind to the bigger issues.
A smoke belching bus/jeep/tricycle probably omits more fumes than 50 smokers and just as harmful!
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4th June 2013 #30
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Totally agree Jake.
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