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To think public smoking should be banned

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 15:57

I live in London and am sick of constantly trying to avoid breathing in disgusting cigarette smoke or the weird sickly smell of vapes. There’s only so much you can swerve, speed past people or cross the road. I feel it’s very selfish to smoke in public spaces, especially crowded streets when people can’t avoid breathing it in. Why can’t people take responsibility for their own health - and others - and just give it up? It’s disgusting and really selfish.

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Havalona · 29/10/2024 16:13

Cig/vape smoke banned in public?. OK should we ban cars also as they are spewing stuff out in public places too. And often those objecting to smoking drive the biggest cars for a shop/school that's five minutes down the road.

Life is full of judgment isn't it.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:13

needapokerface · 29/10/2024 16:12

Personally I don't drink or smoke or vape, and I don't have a miserable life but thank you so much for your care and consideration.

I do however think that people should be allowed to do what makes them happy and if that happens to be smoking, drinking, vaping etc then who are you to tell them they are selfish and they should stop.

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But who are they to smoke in my face and in my space? They can smoke in their own spaces - but they shouldn’t subject others who haven’t consciously made that decision to it.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:12

FreshOutOfFucks · 29/10/2024 16:10

I suppose it probably should be.

I don't really see that many people smoking in public these days. But last week I was walking down the road behind a man who was puffing away on a Marlboro Light and it was lush. I gave up smoking almost twenty years ago and I still love the smell of cigarette smoke.

Can't fucking stand vapes though. They're like car air fresheners.

Vapes are so gross. They smell of old, sweet popcorn to me. And people smoking them look like overgrown children with dummies. Saw a pregnant women smoking one the other day. I get they’re addictive but I just think there are some things you need to prioritise like your babies health over an urge that will at some point go away.

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needapokerface · 29/10/2024 16:12

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:10

I think if smoking and drinking are the only things saving you from misery then you need to look at your priorities. That’s a very sad life.

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Personally I don't drink or smoke or vape, and I don't have a miserable life but thank you so much for your care and consideration.

I do however think that people should be allowed to do what makes them happy and if that happens to be smoking, drinking, vaping etc then who are you to tell them they are selfish and they should stop.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:11

vodkaredbullgirl · 29/10/2024 16:03

I don't know how you can walk and smoke at the same time. I sure can't rather sit down at home having one.

Yes. They often hold them out as well so as we’ll as trying to avoid the smoke there’s the fact you could get burnt at any point because someone decides to gesticulate while they’re talking on the phone. It’s ridiculous.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:10

KrisAkabusi · 29/10/2024 16:01

Why can’t people take responsibility for their own health - and others - and just give it up?

Yup. It's just that easy! 🙄

I've never smoked a cigarette or had a vape in my life, but I think you're being unreasonable.

Well, it is. Lots of people do it?

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FreshOutOfFucks · 29/10/2024 16:10

I suppose it probably should be.

I don't really see that many people smoking in public these days. But last week I was walking down the road behind a man who was puffing away on a Marlboro Light and it was lush. I gave up smoking almost twenty years ago and I still love the smell of cigarette smoke.

Can't fucking stand vapes though. They're like car air fresheners.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 16:10

needapokerface · 29/10/2024 16:01

That's your opinion and you are entitled to have it, but so are the people who enjoy smoking or vaping.

If we all stopped smoking, drinking, vaping and generally having fun with our crappy hard working lives, we would all be dull and miserable.

In my opinion clearly

I think if smoking and drinking are the only things saving you from misery then you need to look at your priorities. That’s a very sad life.

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Cherrysoup · 29/10/2024 16:07

Couldn’t care if people smoke, but it is a bit much, imo, to come out of a supermarket into an unavoidable cloud of second hand fag smoke. I’d like public spaces like supermarket car parks to be enforced as non-smoking. Can people not cope for the hour it takes to do a shop that they have to immediately spark up on exiting?

I’m an ex-smoker, I get the whole addiction thing, but I’d rather load up, go home, make a cuppa and then have had a fag. The irony of seeing a guy with an oxygen tank smoking a cigarette through his trach hole outside the entrance to A&E the other day was not lost on me.

grafittiartist · 29/10/2024 16:04

Not for me.
They already have to go outside- I think that's a good enough compromise.

vodkaredbullgirl · 29/10/2024 16:03

I don't know how you can walk and smoke at the same time. I sure can't rather sit down at home having one.

KrisAkabusi · 29/10/2024 16:01

Why can’t people take responsibility for their own health - and others - and just give it up?

Yup. It's just that easy! 🙄

I've never smoked a cigarette or had a vape in my life, but I think you're being unreasonable.

needapokerface · 29/10/2024 16:01

That's your opinion and you are entitled to have it, but so are the people who enjoy smoking or vaping.

If we all stopped smoking, drinking, vaping and generally having fun with our crappy hard working lives, we would all be dull and miserable.

In my opinion clearly