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Smoking at Oktoberfest

 
To puff or not to puff? The debate

around smoking at Oktoberfest


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UP IN SMOKE: An Oktoberfest visitor enjoys a cig. Will he be allowed to in the future?
Pic: CC gabemac
Smoking is still allowed inside the Oktoberfest beer tents despite growing calls to ban it.

The debate around the “blue smog” comes up again and again around Oktoberfest time and this year it’s going to come up again.

The smoking lobby (and the Oktoberfest tent owners) say banning smoking in the tents would create more problems than it solves.

They claim that making all the smokers go outside whenever they wanted a puff would mean a big fire hazard as there’d be heaps more “traffic jams” around the entrances.

Non-smokers say they should just get over it and Oktoberfest should fall into line with the rest of Europe, where bans are encouraging more and more smokers to butt out.

But this is Germany, after all. Unfortunately smoking is still regarded here as more of a social habit than the dirty, destructive addiction it’s though of in say, Los Angeles or Sydney.

 


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What do you think about smoking in the Oktoberfest tents?

Does smoking put you off comming to the Oktoberfest? Would you avoid the festival altogether if smoking was banned?

Should smoking be allowed to continue, banned altogether, or should the Oktoberfest beer tent owners provide smoking and non-smoking sections?

Let’s have a debate. Here you can comment on smoking at the festival and vote in the poll below. Let’s see where this goes…  

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The debate about whether or not to ban smoking inside the Oktoberfest tents rages every year.


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