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Smoking at work

Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
edited September 2008 in Chit chat
Eastenders is on. This just got me thinking....

Dot Cotton smokes. When June Brown is playing her, on set, she is at work. So how come she gets to smoke at work?

Isn't that against the law now?
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  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited September 2008
    She's not really smoking, she's acting smoking. She's an actor.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2008
    fogartylee wrote: »
    Eastenders is on. This just got me thinking....

    Dot Cotton smokes. When June Brown is playing her, on set, she is at work. So how come she gets to smoke at work?

    Isn't that against the law now?

    Pedan......no actually you do raise a good point there?

    Probably some loophole, like actors are allowed to smoke if their character requires it?
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited September 2008
    Fake ciggies.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    Fake ciggies.

    It'd probably be cheaper just to let her keep her Bensons :D

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  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited September 2008
    She's exempt:- see


    The Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007
    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/uksi_20070765_en_1


    section 6

    Performers
    6. Where the artistic integrity of a performance makes it appropriate for a person who is taking part in that performance to smoke, the part of the premises in which that person performs is not smoke-free in relation to that person during his performance.
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited September 2008
    So, because Mile only pretends to work and is therefore acting, he should be allowed to smoke :)
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited September 2008
    fogartylee wrote: »
    So, because Mile only pretends to work and is therefore acting, he should be allowed to smoke :)

    He only makes out he's the "bad boy" on here, you know in the real world though he's the "Tea Boy", and he runs around like a blue arsed fly fetching teas, Jaffa Cakes, and Bourbon creams for his boss :lol:
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  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    He only makes out he's the "bad boy" on here, you know in the real world though he's the "Tea Boy", and he runs around like a blue arsed fly fetching teas, Jaffa Cakes, and Bourbon creams for his boss :lol:
    mile - bad boy LOL

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  • gasmangasman
    edited September 2008
    Now I think of it, I'm sure I remember a news story about a pub that tried to use the performers' exemption as a loophole: they claimed that everyone in the pub was actually participating in an avant-garde improvised play or something.

    Someone find a reference please. I'm just here to make vague assertions...
  • ÆlitaÆlita
    edited September 2008
    Maybe she was just breaking the law, people do you know.

    I myself used to enjoy a smoke all over the hospital i worked.

    They say that one of the chemicals in tobacco is 'rebellion'
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  • ADJBADJB
    edited September 2008
    Don't you just love loopholes.....

    In the Dutch coffee shops now your not allowed to smoke tobacco. That means your joints have to be pure grass which apparently is fine to smoke under the EU rules.

    That's a real shame :)
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2008
    ADJB wrote: »
    Don't you just love loopholes.....

    In the Dutch coffee shops now your not allowed to smoke tobacco. That means your joints have to be pure grass which apparently is fine to smoke under the EU rules.

    That's a real shame :)
    And quite bizarre...
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  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited September 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    He only makes out he's the "bad boy" on here, you know in the real world though he's the "Tea Boy", and he runs around like a blue arsed fly fetching teas, Jaffa Cakes, and Bourbon creams for his boss :lol:

    Heh heh. I'll bet that he often gets sent to go and ask for 'long stands' as well :D

    Quick everybody, let's have a cheap pop at mile while he's not looking :lol: :wink:
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited September 2008
    ToxieDogg wrote: »
    Quick everybody, let's have a cheap pop at mile while he's not looking :lol: :wink:
    Why wait until he's not looking...
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