The Irish smoking ban and spam!

For those of you that are
not aware I live and work in Eire (Rep Of Ireland) and from the end of
March 2004 smoking of cigarettes in bars, restaurants, night clubs,
work places, etc. will be illegal and any publican (owner) who allows
the public to smoke within there premises can be fined by the
Government.

I'm for the idea of course, my family owned a pub for 75 years and I
lived in it for 20 years of my life so I've seen the affects more then
the average joe smoker who dropped in for a drink.



That did'ent stop some muppet from spamming my mailbox this morning about there petition for wanting to stop the ban (which incidentally can not be stopped at this stage as its been passed into law)

See a copy of the spam mail below (with headers and all)

More then anything else this site seems like a massive joke :-)




I have no problem in pasting this e-mail in full and the sender of it
can complain all they want, but when it comes down to it, I fully 110%
support this ban and this e-mail was sent to me without me requesting
it.


That classes this mail as spam :-)

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From: "Nicola Farrell"

To: myemailaddress@host.com

Subject: The smoking ban is wrecking me buzz!

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:49:40 -0000

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Hi



My name is Nicola Farrell, I am a 24 year old Dublin smoker desperately
trying to get the 'smoking ban' lifted I am organising a 50,000 name
petition which I will present in person to Micheal Martin our misguided
minister for Health

Can you help



We all participated in getting Ronnie O'Brien signed to Juventus and
nominating 'A nation once again' as the most popular song on the BBC
World service poll

Please help me as this is important



I have set up a website http://www.wreckingmebuzz.com where you can
sign my petition, it takes less than a minute and as a bonus I have
short piece of animation where you can see me on a typical Friday out
in Dublin!




Time is running out so please forward this email to all in your address book



Cheers!





Nicola



Ps Don't forget the web address http://www.wreckingmebuzz.com and to look at my big night out



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I left the following note on the owners website/guestbook



"Heavens forbid we might want to care about our health care system and non-smokers health.
OK hows this for a idea?

All people that smoke can smoke all they care and want, but any smokers
that have lung cancer in later years will not get any health care
towards it.
Sounds like a fair deal ;-)

Also I don't like spam.

Why not dedicate your website to something worth while??"