{"id":122,"date":"2006-03-28T09:17:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T09:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:46:52","slug":"nessie-the-loch-ness-monster-triumphs-over-scottish-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/28\/nessie-the-loch-ness-monster-triumphs-over-scottish-smokers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nessie the Loch Ness Monster triumphs over Scottish smokers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The new smoking ban that covers ALL enclosed public places in Scotland is a great success. Despite the rantings of the smoking minority and threats to break the law, that hasn&#8217;t happened. <\/p><div id=\"lochn-1824946944\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>See this piece in the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060925155019\/http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/news\/tm_objectid=16867839%26method=full%26siteid=66633-name_page.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Record.<\/a>\u00a0No doubt one or two anti-social diehards will make a big point of making themselves look like fools by having a drag or two in a pub or shopping mall but they face an on the spot \u00a350 fine and any companies that permit or fail to prevent smoking face an on the spot fine of \u00a3200 per incident or \u00a32500 upon prosecution. Persistent offenders can be put out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nessie was delighted to see that a new smoker detector (yes that&#8217;s smoker, not smoke) has been invented which &#8220;sees&#8221; the heat signature of a lighter or match as the violator lights up. It can trigger a camera to take a photo so that the person can be successfully prosecuted. Ain&#8217;t technology wonderful?!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new smoking ban that covers ALL enclosed public places in Scotland is a great success. Despite the rantings of the smoking minority and threats to break the law, that hasn&#8217;t happened. See this piece in the\u00a0Daily Record.\u00a0No doubt one or two anti-social diehards will make a big point of making themselves look like fools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/03\/28\/nessie-the-loch-ness-monster-triumphs-over-scottish-smokers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nessie the Loch Ness Monster triumphs over Scottish smokers!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}