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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: How Did Top Gear Presenters Get Away With The Smoking Ban? |
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Anti-smoking campaigners have asked the BBC to apologise after Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May lit pipes on Sunday's show.
"Smoking in a studio is illegal. We would hope programme-makers make some form of apology," said a spokeswoman for Action on Smoking and Health (Ash).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7046498.stm
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I suppose they were outside a public place, but the public were there. |
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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I am kind of divided on this. Firstly I think the smoking ban is the best thing to happen in years. But I dont think people should be stopped from smoking on tv shows where it is necessary for the story. I dont know whether in this case it was or not. _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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firewirefred Guest
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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gfloyd wrote: | I am kind of divided on this. Firstly I think the smoking ban is the best thing to happen in years. But I dont think people should be stopped from smoking on tv shows where it is necessary for the story. I dont know whether in this case it was or not. |
It wasn't necessary. It was all a joke - although I did find it funny. Even though the show is recorded in an aircraft industrial unit it is a work premises and therefore the action was against the law. I think it was another incidence of Clarkson and chaps pushing the boundaries of tolerance a bit - he knew what was what.
I still thought it was funny though, but the law's the law. |
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