In Saturday PM
Hugh in the place I'm not allowed to refer to on air as Honkers.
He says:
"Hugh in Hong Kong is dodging heavy rain, and electric storms - but breathing cleaner air! Strict no smoking laws arrived in Hong Kong at the beginning of the year - banning smoke from almost everywhere indoors, and many places out of doors as well. You can still smoke in a bar, or in a 'massage establishment' - but only for the next two years. So....
Take a walk around Morrison Hill, and you won't get a face-full of passive smoke. 
Signs on every table in friendly Younker Restaurant. No smokers at the next table to spoil your meal any more.
Signs in English too. 
Oh, and that $27 for a 'meal deal' bowl of won ton noodle soup, a plate of vegetables and a cup of tea is...Hong Kong dollars, fifteen to the pound. £1.80 for lunch - not bad. A lot less than....a packet of fags.
Another smoke-free outdoor zone - Chater Park. So far this week, I have seen only three people smoking. "
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Good idea Witchi...
Eddie, can you ask Hugh how he knows you can still smoke in a "massage establishment"? Is this where our licence fee money goes?? :p
We are already having more than our share of smoking bans.
Are fags okay in a - dare I say it - heterodox massage establishment as well?
Goes without saying really, doesn't it?
To Fearless fred... Gotta do our research etc.....but actually, I got that info from the Honkers, sorry, Hong Kong government website www.Smokinginmassageestablishmentsbutonlyuntil2009.org.com.hk
However, Rupert and I shared a ...shisha this evening.
No, not in a massage establishment.
£1.80 for lunch? Excellent.
And Hugh's raised a good point; what'll happen to shisha places here in Merrie England? Will the lovely Moroccan place near here suffer?
Probly.
As for massage parlours, isn't a ciggie after the event ... oh, forget it.
Oh Hugh, you and your tobacco! And how you must have laughed when I mentioned hubba bubba's - I've always thought of the chewing gum when thinking of arabic smoking, which is why I call hubble bubble's by that name. Incidentally, I can't help thinking that the inventions of the chewing gum brand were also thinking the same way.
So, decadence reigns supreme in Honkers. Get thee to a massage parlour, now! (Oh, and Rupert, too - can't leave the good man out) ;o)
More ?
xx
ed
P.S. I just heard something about a "Brown Bounce" on the radio. It generated an image I'm sure it's namesake wouldn't find flattering.
Greetings from Sunny California to Friends in the UK:
First of all, thanks to the organizers of this blog who have done such an outstanding job.
Secondly, as someone who has suffered from asthma as a result of second hand cigarette smoke in the house I grew up in, I appreciate these rules and hope that they become global.
Interesting side note:
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins have recently uncovered that two compounds found in broccoli help to boost the immune system and detoxify the body from harmful chemicals including nicotene.
Next time you're around second hand smoke, you might want to go for a cup of broccoli! :-)
Regards,
Mike D
Mike (10),
Your link is worth the trouble for the lovely lass with tracking eyes!
xx
ed
P.S. try my namelink above for a friend of mine and a neighbour of yours.