E-Cig Ban, Why Can't MCFC stand up and be counted

[Metodscaeft DeadBlue]

E-cigs do help you quit, granted. But I understand the clubs stance with this. I'm a smoker myself and quit for 8 weeks last year without struggling using an ecig. However, I do not believe they are suitable around children. I don't mean young children, I mean children who think they could get away with smoking using these. They are unproven and are about to start to be regulated. Its a good point and I appreciate your opinion BUT it is possible to go a couple of hours without a smoke. Even if we're playing typical city style

 

[marco]

50 - 60 mg of nicotine will kill a 160 lb human - it would take 10,000 mg of caffeine to do the same!

lol here, are you suggesting people are drinking 100% proof nicotine, if you drink weedol or rat poison it will kill you, but back to your stats the average vape mix is 18% nicotine not 100%, so to poison yourself you would have to drink many bottles

 

[Bluenobby]

Fully support the club. You know the rules when you enter the ground. If you can't go without for a couple of hours then you have the choice not to attend and do something else where you can use these things. I bet a lot of people would like a few pints while they watch the game from their seats. It's not allowed whether any of us agree with it or not and there's no difference with this. No offence but it's a pointless post. Lets get back to talking about the football.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Percentages is fine! If you want to say that nicotine and caffeine are equally poisonous !
One is 200 times more poisonous than the other !
I know which one I'll be having in the morning!

 

[whp.blue]

Have the smokers ever considered that the club are protecting the vast majority of fans who find smoking a totally disgusting and filthy habit

if the club put it to a vote of season ticket holders I am sure all smoking would be banned from the stadium<br /><br />-- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:47 am --<br /><br />Have the smokers ever considered that the club are protecting the vast majority of fans who find smoking a totally disgusting and filthy habit

if the club put it to a vote of season ticket holders I am sure all smoking would be banned from the stadium

 

[IanBishopsHaircut]

The ignorance of some posters in this thread regarding e-cigs is quite frankly shocking

It's not smoking

You would have to injest bottles of the diluted juice you get in the shop to die from it

Most of us are using it to quit SMOKING but not to quit nicotine...I enjoy it like anyone enjoys and stimulant

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I for one, feel Manchester City Football Club's stance with regard to e-cigarettes is despicable, unwarranted and totally unfair.

 

[Matty]

I haven't read the full thread, because I just don't have the time, so my points may have already been mentioned and discussed in full, however:-

1 - It is Manchester City Council's own policy that forbids the use of cigarettes, and E-Cigs, on any of their properties, anywhere. Manchester City Football Club have the sum total of ZERO input into the allowance of such things, it isn't their decision, it isn't their call, it's the council's so any and all issues related to what is and isn't allowed to be smoked should really be aimed at them.

2 - E-Cigs are banned as, from a distance, both with the naked eye and with CCTV, it is almost impossible to discern between them and the real thing. This makes it very hard to police the smoking ban and catch those breaking it.

3 - At most people are within the confines of the ground for 2 hours. Just don't smoke. I'm sure we've all been on flights in our time, you can't smoke on them either, or in the airports at either end. That journey is going to far excede the time you'll be at the Etihad, yet you all manage to refrain from smoking. So, it's possible for you to do so, you just chose not to.

 

[SWP's back]

If you don't want to give up then enjoy every minute of it. But why are people still complaining about not being able to do something that is banned. It is 2 hours of the day. If those people complaining cant last 2 hours they have more serious problems than an E-Cig.

They are complaining about not being able to something that isn't banned and is perfectly legal.

As I said before, if they banned alcohol in the stadium, would you simply say "just go teetotal or if you wish to drink then just do so but not for 2 hours in the ground"?

After all, drinking is more harmful to you than an ecig is.

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I don't doubt that but then again I don't have the urge to rush to the bar in a 15 minute interval throw a pint of piss down me throat just because it is alcohol. I can generally wait till after the game and do a shit load in town instead at a lot less cost.

As mentioned before each to their own.

I don't smoke or drink in the stadium as I dislike queueing but thousands do just that fella.<br /><br />-- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:33 am --<br /><br />

This habit of sidetracking onto the alcohol route is totally fallacious. Almost everyone who smokes is addicted whereas alcoholism only strikes a tiny minority of drinkers .
" yeah , but look at all the tax we smokers pay into the NHS " , well we need those taxes to cover the cost of treatment of smoking related illnesses, of which there are many .
Somebody said on this thread that nicotine is on a par with caffeine , well if I were you I'd go and look up some toxicology reports , quite scary !
And anyway , it's surely the council , not City who are responsible for the ban .

It's not often that one person gets so many things wrong in such a short post.

Well done.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Have the smokers ever considered that the club are protecting the vast majority of fans who find smoking a totally disgusting and filthy habit

if the club put it to a vote of season ticket holders I am sure all smoking would be banned from the stadium

-- Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:47 am --

Have the smokers ever considered that the club are protecting the vast majority of fans who find smoking a totally disgusting and filthy habit

if the club put it to a vote of season ticket holders I am sure all smoking would be banned from the stadium

Why would they put something to vote that they have already banned