[Stoat]

We all saw this coming...with the popularity and acceptance in popular culture and the media of treating smokers as vermin,  no "solution" to the smoking issue will ever be acceptable to the antismoking and enviro Nazis other than a total ban on all tobacco products, sales and usage.   Outdoor heaters will also be banned,  but there will always be 'some' villain, as far as these pressure groups are concerned....a total victory would put them out of  (a very lucrative) business.

Earlier this year the garden chain Wyevale stopped selling patio heaters after pressure from environmental campaigners

I suppose that if I were the owner of Wyevale's and woke up one morning to find my beloved pet decapitated on my front lawn with a note attached:" Your family is next!  Stop selling outdoor heaters!" I would probably feel that it's a whole lot easier to drop one out of thousands of products that I carry.

[GOP_Lady]

The only thing to be said is, “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...”

[cripplecreek]

Those heaters attract filthy disease ridden smokers much like trash attracts rats. LOL

[unixfox]

Thye just HATE smokers, period!

[alancarp]

Pay me $10,000 per year (+/-; negotiable) and I will certify that I will not use any of these heaters, thereby providing carbon offsets for all of these fine citizens, thereby allowing continued use with a clear conscience.

[southernnorthcarolina]

If patio heaters are outlawed, only outlaws will have patio heaters.

[Neidermeyer]

With a single heater releasing almost four tons of greenhouse gases a year
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These heaters run off of a standard 20# propane tank ,, I’m guessing that it would be in use (at most) perhaps 6 months a year for a total of about 3600# of fuel burn a year ... and in England with petrol at $5-$6/gallon I’m sure propane is right up there too, no $12 tank fills there.. so the greenies are saying it creates 2x by weight in CO2 of the fuel input?? it doesn’t compute for me.. but then again I like things warm and have no problem with climate change.

[Billthedrill]

It's pretty sad that keeping warm while you have a cigarette is more important than tackling climate change...

The.
Climate.
Is.
Going.
To.
Change.

Deal.
With.
It.

[Stoat]

Cigar Ping

[Moonman62]

Patio heaters installed by pubs to keep smokers warm on chilly nights could soon produce as much carbon dioxide as a small city, it has been claimed.

On the bright side, if these heaters cause enough global warming, then they won't need them anymoree.

[jackieaxe]

I noticed a few patio heaters on Paris Hilton’s patio when she was getting picked up and brought back to court. Maybe this is why he judge is so upset!

[Stoat]

Ping

[goarmy]

One thing that I’ve noticed:

Folks (such as myself) banished to the smoking patios seem to have more fun than the patrons cooped-up inside (they don’t want to associate with the dirty smokers). I attribute the jocularity to being outside and enjoying the elements.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Where be the sane men?

[montag813]

Carbon dioxide is not a problem! When will the Dioxophobia end?

[Shots]

I think it is time to rebel against all these so called activists.  The keep coming up with this nonsense and offer no solutions other then do it our way.  So lets take them all out back hang them and problem solved he he.....

[Tainan]

Use
electric
heaters
instead
of
gas.



(I don't know why I am posting in this insipid and annoying 'haiku' style)

[M203M4]

All nanny-staters must hang.

[Swordfished]

It seems like the most environmentally-friendly way to live my life is sitting in a chair all day, using the least calories possible.

[Gabz]

I don’t know if I should call this a Law of Unintended Consequences or Smokers Blamed for Everything ping to the Nanny state list!!!!!!!

Have at it boys and girls - this one is a pip!

[Mogollon]

Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant no matter what the evironazi’s say. We would die without it (after the plants died first of course).