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AIBU?

People who stand outside the entrances of tube/train stations smoking

101 replies

TheVoiceOfTreason · 25/09/2017 09:30

Grrrr.

I don't want to breathe that shit in at the best of times, even less so now I'm pregnant. Its smelly and carcinogenic, and by doing it there they are forcing the rest of us to walk through it and have to breathe it in.

Go and take your vile habits somewhere else where the rest of us can escape from it more easily!!

Am I being unreasonable to think that people shouldn't do it, and that creating a cloud of cigarette smoke outside the station that non smokers have to walk through totally misses the point of the smoking ban?

Angry

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AfunaMbatata · 25/09/2017 09:33

Are you incapable of holding your breath for all of the 8 seconds it would probably take you to walk past them?

ginghambox · 25/09/2017 09:35

Here we go again.

Trills · 25/09/2017 09:36

It's annoying if they are blocking the entrance.

Otherwise, meh.

emmyrose2000 · 25/09/2017 09:36

YANBU

smashyourglasses · 25/09/2017 09:37

Oh god bugger off.

limitedperiodonly · 25/09/2017 09:38

You're pregnant, are you? Do you want to whine about smokers who clutter up hospital doorways too? Go on. You know you want to

ZeroFuchsGiven · 25/09/2017 09:39

YABU and precious. How long does it take you to walk past them? A few seconds? Get a grip.

Hillarious · 25/09/2017 09:39

YA absolutely NBU for thinking that they are being unreasonable. They're not doing anything wrong - I think that smoking for a lot of people just addles the part of the brain that deals with being considerate of others.

Amanduh · 25/09/2017 09:40

Yes yabu. I hate smoking myself but you're only walking past them for all of five seconds.. I've never walked through a 'cloud of smoke' in to any tube station either 😂 sometimes there are some people smoking at the sides of the (usually large) entrances, surely that can't affect anyone that much 🙄

Fannylodger · 25/09/2017 09:40

YABU. I adore making unsuspecting non smokers breathe in my smelly cancer stick smoke.
500 bonus points if they're pregnant....
in reality, just hold your breath and walk past and be thankful they can no longer do it on trains or inside the station.

Hillarious · 25/09/2017 09:41

I'm with the OP and I'm not even pregnant.

Laughinginyourface · 25/09/2017 09:41

May I suggest you go buy a bubble, as that's the only way you to stop your own personal air not being polluted.
Have a jolly good day.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 25/09/2017 09:42

It's annoying if they block the entrance way yeah.

Can't say I struggle to hold my breath for the four seconds it takes to go past them though. I imagine my breath holding ability is going to extend into pregnancy too so that's good.

splendidisolation · 25/09/2017 09:44

Jesus christ they already barred us from.actual trains. Get over yourself, whole generations of kids were brought up in a smoke-boxed fug of hazy houses, cars, cinemas, trains and doctors offices and are now healthy adults.

You realise if you live in a city car fumes and exhaust are much worse for your precious foetus, right.

User843022 · 25/09/2017 09:46

'Are you incapable of holding your breath for all of the 8 seconds it would probably take you to walk past them?'

You really shouldn't have to. Smokers just take your smelly habit round the corner and stop standing in doorways getting in everyone's way.

Fannylodger · 25/09/2017 09:49

But then surely around the corner you'll also be blowing/wafting/it at someone? According to the threads on MN anyway... can't win.

OriginalRhubarbGin · 25/09/2017 09:52

When I rule the world smokers will only be allowed to smoke inside their own houses, not even in their gardens! Afterall if smoking is so perfectly acceptable to them, they won't mind keeping it to themselves, will they?! GrinGrinGrin

User843022 · 25/09/2017 09:52

'But then surely around the corner you'll also be blowing/wafting/it at someone? '
Well yes but you always find clusters of them gasping in doorways where there's a bottle neck , not only causing a stink but just getting in the way tooGrin

TheVoiceOfTreason · 25/09/2017 09:52

Splendidisolation yes I do and I worry about the car fumes too. Trouble is, my job is in central London so I have no choice but to be there. It's my first pregnancy and so any extra possibility for worrying, I'm worrying about it.

Amanduh and ZeroFucks - there's enough people do it outside the station I have to use that it has actually made my coat smell of cigarette smoke (the only time I'm in a semi confined space with cigarette smoke is when I'm walking out the tube station and the smokers are stood outside, especially if it's raining and they are under the sheltered bit). Holding my breath to not breathe it in therefore only partly solves the problem.

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Hillarious · 25/09/2017 09:54

Jesus christ they already barred us from.actual trains. Get over yourself, whole generations of kids were brought up in a smoke-boxed fug of hazy houses, cars, cinemas, trains and doctors offices and are now healthy adults.

We're not here to debate the health issues of second hand smoke, or car fumes, but does the imposition of these now much cleaner environments warrant such an outburst?

TheVoiceOfTreason · 25/09/2017 09:54

Smashyourglasses, how very charming of you.

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HarrietKettleWasHere · 25/09/2017 09:55

Christ what station is it? I exit at Waterloo (so a busy big one) and there's only ever one or two smokers outside whenever I exit. I'd be very surprised to see enough smokers to make my coat smell in the time it took me to walk past them.

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TaliZorahVasNormandy · 25/09/2017 09:57

Could be worse. Could be smoking a joint. Now that shit stinks.

specialsubject · 25/09/2017 09:58

Smokers are very fragile people and cannot be exposed to the weather. Their addiction also means that they believe in the magic curtain which stops the stink drifting into the building as long as they are just outside.

It is pitiful but just think 'saddo druggie ' and walk past, pushing if they really are blocking the door. The health risk from passing by is minimal.

SleepingStandingUp · 25/09/2017 10:07

Trying to get up the pavement to the Childrens hospital with a child on o2 / every other condition of passing children past the cloud of smoke is the real gauntlet challenge. Normally in front of the no smoking sign.
And yes I get how stressful it is having a child in there. Yes people have a right to stress relief via their addiction. But not in the place where you have to walk poorly kids past

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