Well, it’s finally here. Come midnight Saturday, (a cruel time to implement this by the way) Victorians will no longer be able to smoke inside pubs, bars or nightclubs. Obviously the smokers are angry about all of this, but nobody is more pissed, apparently, than the band The Pretty Things from the UK who have written a protest anthem called “All Light Up” in the name of upset smokers everywhere.
Unfortunately, it’s unlikely we’re ever going to see the band performing “All Light Up” live here though as they were sentenced to a lifetime ban from Australia and New Zealand when they tore the place up during a tour here in the 60s. Ask your parents I guess!
All is not lost though because Philip Morris have done their bit to ease the blow by inventing a nifty little device called the Heatbar. The idea behind the Heatbar is that you stick your cigarette into it so it can “gently toast” your cigarette, thereby allowing you to smoke without producing any smoke. Voila! Now, so long as you can get over the fact that you look retarded while you’re giving yourself bad diseases, I guess you have your solution!
Our friends at Click Click are mourning the death of the cigarette with a countdown this Saturday night.
Reader Comments
June 29th, 2007
12:31 pm
That Heatbar thing is rather odd; I say just go outside and smoke. People do that here, in the US, many bars have banned smoking, so why not do it in Melbourne?
June 29th, 2007
3:12 pm
yeah as a smoker, I know it sucks. but at least inocent people arent getting sick, and your clothes and hair dont stank as much.
June 29th, 2007
6:02 pm
boo-fucking-hoo
June 29th, 2007
7:03 pm
Why dont you send derrick beckles over there to annoy the fuck out of everyone? Really? Cigarettes are bad for you? Asshole
June 29th, 2007
7:41 pm
good riddance.
June 30th, 2007
2:38 am
cigarettes dont get you high or drunk. they just prove you had no resistance to peer pressure in grade four. you crybaby smoking pussies can go fuck yourselves.
June 30th, 2007
10:06 am
Brendanjon, among really healthy things a ban on smoking under covered areas (public transport stops substantially considered) is perhaps the most significant people-caring deed introduced a year ago by the State of Victoria government.
However, although prices on public transport go up as explained to additionally meet new spending on installation of surveying cameras operating in numbers already around, a number of smokers even at the Parliament station deeeeeeep underground one is on visual rise as a subway staff refuses factually to implement anti-smoking ban, blaming police for.
“Many bars have banned smoking, so why not do it in Melbourne?” – because in the States offenders are persecuted at much higher degree for what they DID as in Australia one could say for WHO they are.
June 30th, 2007
12:46 pm
pssh
they banned smoking in ireland a while back, sure a few people complained but it’s a lot nicer now.
i found it a bit annoying i couldn’t smoke while drinking, but i’ve gotten used to it now and honestly feel a lot better for it
June 30th, 2007
5:19 pm
In the Victoria I live in(B.C., Canada), the city is implementing a smoking ban on bar and restaurant patios. This of course is not going to make everyone stop smoking, it will simply push everyone out on to the streets and cause major problems for these establishments. Fucking retarded.
June 30th, 2007
8:19 pm
Maybe I’m a bit slow but how exactly does the heatbar work to prevent smoke? Surely you have to exhale smoke to smoke a cig?
July 1st, 2007
6:08 am
Oh, great, and then just like in New Zealand, we’re going to find the ‘last cigarette smoked in a bar’ on Trademe/Ebay, and some closeted cigarette company will buy it for $10,000, in a desperate bid for attention.
I smoke outside, why shouldn’t you? Do the responsible thing.
July 2nd, 2007
5:12 am
its amazing how any article to do with australia is instantly boring as fuck
July 2nd, 2007
4:07 pm
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July 3rd, 2007
1:51 am
Some articles of Australia not fucking boring at all:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/03/355817.shtml
August 31st, 2007
11:54 am
What about the smoke you inhale, where do you blow that? (sorry!!!)