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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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BIossomtoes · 29/10/2024 18:11

Oh dear.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:09

Supersimkin7 · 29/10/2024 18:07

  1. The world isn’t ‘your space’. Eww.
  2. Car fumes are harmful. Dispersed tobacco smoke isn’t.

You’re right. I and the other 51% of people who agree with my statement, do not live in the world - it is not our space. We exist on another plane.

Smoke isn’t dispersed if someone is smoking right in front of you and it’s blowing right in your face as you walk.

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BobbyBiscuits · 29/10/2024 18:09

I don't really see how they could enforce a law that bars people from smoking or vaping while walking up the public street? Obviously it's not nice to smell second hand smoke but outdoors I think is probably the healthiest place to do it as at least the smoke blows away.

Supersimkin7 · 29/10/2024 18:07
  1. The world isn’t ‘your space’. Eww.
  2. Car fumes are harmful. Dispersed tobacco smoke isn’t.
CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:06

TheNoonBell · 29/10/2024 18:05

Hitler wanted to ban smoking.

Hitler also had a small moustache and a penchant for oil painting.

and?

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:06

VivianLea · 29/10/2024 18:04

I love smoking but whenever I smoke I feel like I need to go and hide somewhere no one will see me, or go somewhere where people can easily go around me.

Thank you for being a considerate smoker.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:05

Fluufer · 29/10/2024 18:02

I agree. I absolutely hate it. It's horrid walking along the pavement behind a smoker, or waiting at a bus stop, or outside the bleeding school gates.
I imagine they wouldn't love it if I walked around spritzing hairspray all over them...

Yes exactly.

I should develop a flatulence problem. See how smokers like it when I do a horrible one in their direction.

but it’s ok, they can just hold their breath and swerve, like I have to do several times a day on a ten minute walk.

Anything but encroaching on personal freedoms!

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TheNoonBell · 29/10/2024 18:05

Hitler wanted to ban smoking.

VivianLea · 29/10/2024 18:04

I love smoking but whenever I smoke I feel like I need to go and hide somewhere no one will see me, or go somewhere where people can easily go around me.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:04

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 18:02

I'll wait for youir next ranty goady thread. I'm sure I won't have long to wait.

Yes, because people who lurk waiting for threads to comment snipes on without actually contributing to the topic aren’t goady at all…

Bet you’re a 40-a-dayer.

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vodkaredbullgirl · 29/10/2024 18:03

@MotherOfCrocodiles wrong thread

Fluufer · 29/10/2024 18:02

I agree. I absolutely hate it. It's horrid walking along the pavement behind a smoker, or waiting at a bus stop, or outside the bleeding school gates.
I imagine they wouldn't love it if I walked around spritzing hairspray all over them...

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 18:02

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:01

Are you bored? There are lots of other threads you could post snarky comments on, like ones about prams on buses and kids getting their ears pierced?

I'll wait for youir next ranty goady thread. I'm sure I won't have long to wait.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 18:01

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:59

If you say so.

Are you bored? There are lots of other threads you could post snarky comments on, like ones about prams on buses and kids getting their ears pierced?

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MotherOfCrocodiles · 29/10/2024 18:00

Our school, like many, uses White Rose Maths and if you google it you can find week by week curriculum

What I have noticed with my kids is that they progress in bursts - you might read what someone else's kid does in a certain area and think yours is miles behind, then two weeks later it has all changed

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:59

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:58

Bored of swerving smoke and holding my breath; yes.

If you say so.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:58

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:57

I just thought you seemed a bit bored.

Bored of swerving smoke and holding my breath; yes.

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CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:57

RobinEllacotStrike · 29/10/2024 17:54

Smoking in UK is hugely down from what it used to be - I rarely see many people smoking now.

Travelling in Europe recently (Croatia, Spain, Italy) is a reminder of just how much has changed here re smoking - many more people still publically smoking there.

We have made good progress - and I'm still a massive fan of personal freedoms and personal choice given that the alternatives are terrifying.

When ‘freedom’ and ‘choice’ is lining the pockets of tobacco companies, who employed every trick in the book (including lies about smoking being good for you) back in the day, to get people addicted, I’m happy to leave it behind.

in fact I don’t see it as a freedom or choice - I see it as coercion and addiction.

who is really benefiting? Not the smokers.

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StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:57

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:54

none of those affect my health or ability to walk down the street, so no thanks.

I just thought you seemed a bit bored.

RobinEllacotStrike · 29/10/2024 17:54

Smoking in UK is hugely down from what it used to be - I rarely see many people smoking now.

Travelling in Europe recently (Croatia, Spain, Italy) is a reminder of just how much has changed here re smoking - many more people still publically smoking there.

We have made good progress - and I'm still a massive fan of personal freedoms and personal choice given that the alternatives are terrifying.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:54

StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:53

If you would like to start another ranty thread OP, may I suggest child ear piercing or parent and child parking or perhaps prams on buses, not had one of those for a while.

none of those affect my health or ability to walk down the street, so no thanks.

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StarSlinger · 29/10/2024 17:53

If you would like to start another ranty thread OP, may I suggest child ear piercing or parent and child parking or perhaps prams on buses, not had one of those for a while.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:52

genesis92 · 29/10/2024 17:49

You're clearly extremely naive and have no idea what addiction is like

You’re speaking to someone with very strong first hand experience of addiction.

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Getonwitit · 29/10/2024 17:51

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:36

Apart from making me feel sick and making my clothes and hair smell? And where’s the scientific evidence to say if I’m sat next to a smoker outside a cafe I’m not negatively affected? You know passive smoking is bad right? It’s perfectly possible to get lungs full of smoke when you’re walking down a London street - huge quantities of people smoke!

I would be more worried about the diesel and petrol fumes.

CreamLampshade · 29/10/2024 17:51

genesis92 · 29/10/2024 17:49

You're clearly extremely naive and have no idea what addiction is like

Addiction to heroin, maybe. I’ve seen 40 a day smokers give up after 30 years with no issues.

it can be done.

and I’m not saying don’t smoke - im saying don’t smoke in PUBLIC.

if you want to ruin your health, happy for you to do so - in your own home!

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