Health & Family Smoking laws for outdoor dining at Victorian restaurants kick in....

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  1. Scott No Mates

    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    Geez, Victoria is a great place but....linky

    It struck my kids when we were in Docklands recently and there were a group of smokers outside the restaurant sitting at a table. We had to google smoking laws in Victoria to find that unlike NSW you were still permitted to smoke outside a restaurant and many other places.

    Big turn off and little No Mates was not to happy.
     
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    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    It came into effect in Canberra in 2010.

    Though most people honoured it, as a Subway owner with an outdoor dining area, people who really wanted to smoke outside did so unfortunately.
     
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    Same thing happens in Sydney. Beer gardens ban food between certain periods to get the bloody smokers in.
    Seems to be more in low socio economic areas such as Parra.
     
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    Still? Or only as the bans came in?

    I could understand how hard business owners found/find it as the laws came in - quite a change. Such as @geoffw's comments show.
     
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    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    I sold my business in 2012. But there was the occasional offender for at least a year.
     
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    Last time I went to the Commercial in Parramatta (maybe three months ago) it was still the case.
     
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    Good job too...the stink is horrible.

    What is ironic is how often you see the restaurant staff out the back or in some secluded spot having a coffin nail....

    You'd reckon these groups - and many others in the lower paid sections of the work force - would wake up and stop.

    What is it now; a buck per nail?
     
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    Yeah, I once evicted a tenant who could afford cigarettes but who couldn't afford rent.

    Seeing restaurant staff out back smoking is nothing. I was overseas recently, the guy preparing the takeaway food was smoking while preparing.
     
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