Do you think the smoking ban is killing the music industry?

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I love to go out to watch live bands but now there maybe 9 people watching the bands and 50 outside listening and smoking this must be so demoralising for the bands who would love to play to a full house. And not a thought to the musitions who have learned to play a instrument with a cig in there mouth . The only way forward is to fit good extraction fans!

Answer 1

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Extraction fans and a seperate partitioned area for non smokers. Thats what is considered normal in other countries.
Everyone is happy.
Here in Japan, the non smoking areas are usually smaller than the smoking areas and you still have to wait for a smoking seat because the demand is so high.
The large extraction fans and air conditioning make the air nice and clean even with a few smokers at the same table.
No smelly clothes or hair either ! (and thats for the smokers too)

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Asker's Comment:

I am a engineer and i know the way forward on this no smoking issue is to install extractor fans but the people of free England have no say.

Answer 2

I think it's killing the bars and it's gonna hurt the goverment when they're not getting so much taxes from cigarettes but not the music industry

Answer 3

No more than the internet.

Answer 4

The only people I can think of whom it is bad for, is those people who manufacture medicines that treat the many diseases smoking causes..

Answer 5

no.... they make way too much money to suffer .xx

Answer 6

no way. and even if the music industry is suffering, that's just the price we are going to have to pay to keep smokers out of public places! obviously ciggarettes are more important to them than good music!

Answer 7

You must go to some crumby gigs. I can't remember anyone smoking on or off stage during the hundreds of gigs I've been to. The only places that might struggle are some jazz clubs.

Answer 8

Frankly, I don't know whether I should comment or not. I come from a long line of tobacco farmers during the formation of this country from the late 1600's to the 1800's in Va. As far as I'm concerned, I don't smoke, I worked at Philip Morris, USA in Richmond, Va plant in the West Wing, and every day I'd come home with the stench on my clothes.
He--, it got so bad some days, my mother would make me go home and change clothes if we were going out to dinner!
As far as the extraction fans go, some good it does, whatever.
As far as the ban on restaurant smoking, I'm personally glad of it! I've had Chronic Bronchitis several times, Pleurosey (infection of the lining of the lung) and walking Pneumonia which also wasn't fun. So yes, I'm ddddddd glad to see smokers outside!
As far as the music industry, the ones who smoke or drink on stage should not be regarded as any kind of example by anybody but yet they create this illusion of "we're musicians so we can do and get away with anything!" and so the allure to young people is definitely there. But I have to subscribe to the old adage: "Yep, all those pure in hearts are out there so the whole ddddd world can see what jacka----- they're making out of themselves!" Yessir, great examples for our kids coming up! Nothing more than the skanks in Hollywood. GROW UP KIDDIES! SET BETTER EXAMPLES!

Mrs. T. / VA

Answer 9

well I guess a cig is more important than music oh well

Answer 10

smoking ban is killing the music industry? NO!

I am a Londoner on an extended stay in New Zealand. They have had no smoking ban in place for ages. The music scene here is utterly thrving. Without fail there are always the handful of addicts outside the gig whilst the rest if us are indoors larging it up!
My band member friends tell me that more people are turning out now that the bans are in place.

Answer 11

eh, you hear the same yappng everytime someone gets a new ban. It is never as bad as the bar owners claim and their business ends up virtually the same.

Answer 12

I'm best friends with a singer in a band and he tells me he enjoys every gig - especially knowing he can go home without pain in his throat. Because of the deep breaths a singer takes, they are at more risk as passive smokers so in theory, the artists will live longer to make MORE music.

Answer 13

All the non-smoking do gooders in this world wanted the ban...they got it, now they are whingeing about the smell of the toilets, the empty pubs. Young musicians trying to get a break now have diminished audiences. Some people are only happy when they have something to moan about. As an Englishman living in Romania, we fought the smoking ban in January and decided on smoking and non smoking areas instead of an outright ban. strange though if you think about it, Romania was communist 18years ago, and yet we have more freedoms now than you do in so called established Capitalist countrys. So who is the communist? Perhaps the staff have a right to smoke free air, but as the jobs disappear, are all you do gooders willing to pay the extra taxes to make up the losses in tobacco sales and also to support the benefit system? More to whinge about me thinks, for all you lifestyle fascists!!!!! A recent visit back to the country I was born, was very unpleasant...standing outside in all that rain you guys have, I just wanted a cigarette, I'm not a mass murderer!!!! Never been so glad to leave the UK as I was this time, back to a country where we have freedom of choice!!!! Government is interfeing to much in your lives and you don't even see it. Leave the ban up to the individual business owner, and let people find there own way. Was at the recent Rolling stones concert in Bucharest, and neither Mick or Keith complained about the smokers!!!!! Perhaps the bands should be looking for gigs in Eastern Europe, where live music gigs are packed out!!!! And where quality of life is held dear not quantity!!!!

Answer 14

Obviously the dreaded fags are more important - stubb it out - they stink!

Answer 15

i do not think the smoking ban is killing the music industry, but i think it proves that the UK is seriously mis-guided, mis-managed and mis-directed. I am a NON-SMOKER........But, this blanket ban on smoking in all enclosed spaces just proves that the government does not really care for your opinion or your freedom!! This ban was opposed by many people, with some very well structured discussions regarding the pros and cons of this ban, some very good alternative solutions were proffered also, which would have given people the right to choose...........but this was totally ignored!! I believe the government possibly had good intentions - but ultimately they ignored general opinion. THERE WAS NEVER AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON THIS MATTER. I know there were many people for the ban, and many against also - but there were alternatives available that would have met somewhere in the middle - which surely would have been a more democratic way of coming to a solution.

The thing that frightens me most is that it just shows that the duly elected government does not really care for your opinion on this subject, and what will it be next???............maybe something that you love and cherish, or enjoy doing - just food for thought!

Answer 16

Well, let's all stop smoking then. Oh yes, some people don't want to. Why? Why would anyone want to smoke in the first place?

Answer 17

more outdoor gigs I say

Answer 18

not really, surely when you go to a live gig you go for the music, not to hang out outside.

when you go to an arena to to watch a big gig you cant smoke anyway, either can the musicans who have learnt to play with a cig in there mouth.