i smoke and i enjoy it

[gum_shoe_the_3rd]

All i hear smoking this or that, gets on my goat

if you dont like cigs well that's your hard luck mate, i smoke and enjoy it, smoked 30 years ,and alot don't get it

out there, their are alot like me who can't stop, tried everything to stop don't work so i'll stick to it, untill its that exspensive i will have to force myself to stop, 

if the government really cared they'd ban it, how about raising tax on **bleep** pots

well anyhow was good to get that off my chest

have a good one.

[imastawka]

Erica, by law, you are not allowed to smoke inside in Victoria.

That's why cafes have tables and chairs outside - for the smokers

They don't want to lose their patronage

As for people bringing their own vegies to sell or swap, how do you

know if they've used chemicals or not?  Just because they're country-grown

by locals doesn't mean they are pesticide free.

The big farmers who grow for the conglomerates are srutinised for chemicals.

The little back yard grower is not

[amber-eyed-girl]

I live in Melbourne. In two parts of it actually.

By the river and by the sea.

So I consider myself to be extremely fortunate.

Both areas are well-populated. By the sea I am on a bus route.

By the river, in an area with several well known schools and a few shopping strips.

To give an idea, of the fact that both places are jumpin' with traffic.

Neither, are polluted. The worse thing I can smell (and my senses are good) is when the river is a trifle stagnant...(a kind of onion-weedy smell).

By the sea...I smell...well...the sea.

Melbourne, like any other major city, will have a range of scents, sights and feeling.

Like country towns. There can be fresh air...or burnoff of crops...or the strong aroma left by cattle...plus trucks on highways contributing their pollution.

It's nice you love where you live.

I love, where I live.

To get back to the smoking, it's great that restaurants are smoke-free as I don't want to be breathing in/tasting someone else's smoke. I don't care if people choose to smoke- so long as they do not inflict the smoke on those who don't.

[lloydslights]

Bans on smoking within 4 metres of a pedestrian access point to a public building will include seated areas restaurants and cafés since 6 July 2015.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_Australia

Eating in a Smoking Area is not allowed.

Spoiler

(Although I did overhear a lawyer-type person say "Only if the eater is sitting at a table with a knife and fork" )

 

DEB

[imastawka]

So according to that link, it's ok in Victoria to have the outside smoking

areas for cafes.

Which is where Erica, Amber and I am

Smoking is also allowed in: balconies; verandas; smoking rooms in motels; private business; courtyards; outdoor shopping malls; marquees; and footpaths.

[esayaf]

I hate driving to Melbourne as you can see the dirty air for ages before you get there and you know that filth is going to be going in your body

[esayaf]

Then walking around Melbourne you have to breathe in others second hand smoke. Glad I very rarely go there

[amber-eyed-girl]

That's brilliant.

more, please ... So happy people in Melbourne don't get even more people wanting to live in the World's most livable city...

It's a major city, of course people smoke and drive cars. Country towns are quite a mix too. Nothing is idyllic.

[amber-eyed-girl]

I for one, don't want this city growing.

[donnashuggy]

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@imastawka wrote:

So according to that link, it's ok in Victoria to have the outside smoking

areas for cafes.

Which is where Erica, Amber and I am

Smoking is also allowed in: balconies; verandas; smoking rooms in motels; private business; courtyards; outdoor shopping malls; marquees; and footpaths.

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Melbourne is progressive, they don't have bus stops on corners. My dad was born there so I inherited their intelligence.

[amber-eyed-girl]

There's a bus stop in my street but it's not on the corner, no 🙂 😛

Intelligence is a nice thing to inherit wherever it comes from 😉