# (poposed) UK smoking ban (in pubs/restaurants) **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 8, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664 "2004-12-08T01:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/101 "2004-12-10T23:56:34Z")
> [@](#): > > … seriously what on earth does that mean? What is the world coming to when our children no longer [know how to speak Latin](http://www.idioma-software.com/pig/pig_latin.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/102 "2004-12-11T00:25:21Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > Evil Death, this is NOT appropriate in this forum. Apologies, Gaudere; I forgot I wasn’t in the Pit. This feels like a Pit thread for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/103 "2004-12-11T01:10:54Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > What is the world coming to when our children no longer [know how to speak Latin](http://www.idioma-software.com/pig/pig_latin.html)? Ahh I didn’t get past amo, amas, amat, amarmus,amartis,amant (from memory so probably wrong). Well at least when the zombie Roman legions start rising from the dead I can tel them I love Rome. Amo Roma. (I hope). ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/104 "2004-12-11T05:11:39Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > What is the world coming to when our children no longer [know how to speak Latin](http://www.idioma-software.com/pig/pig_latin.html)? Hey, what am I? Chopped Liver?? [anksthay a otlay](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpiglatin.html) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/105 "2004-12-11T05:52:00Z")
Well, see now, he has even less of an excuse! (Seriously, I thought there was hardly an American alive who didn’t know pig latin, at least the “ixnay on the \_\_\_\_” part.) ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/106 "2004-12-11T07:19:22Z")
> [@even sven](#): > > And what if cut-resistant gloves were banned because they cut down on productivity (just like I’m sure a bartender would get fired if they insisted on wearing a protective mask)? The part about banning cut-resistant gloves isn’t very logical as in the meat cutting business lead to more productivity. If the bartender doesn’t want to work in a smoking evnviroment then he can quit. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664/107 "2004-12-13T16:12:17Z")
> [@Gaudere](#): > > Well, see now, he has even less of an excuse! > > (Seriously, I thought there was hardly an American alive who didn’t know pig latin, at least the “ixnay on the \_\_\_\_” part.) I’m a Brit, and we are still rather upset with them there Romans coming over and attacking us 2000 years ago. I don’t think Pig Latin caught on much in UK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poposed-uk-smoking-ban-in-pubs-restaurants/278664.md?page=5)