To dislike smokers who stand under the bike shelter smoking?

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Every day i go to my Gym and cycle there and park my bike on one of the bike lock rails.
Without doubt there is always a person who comes under there and lights up.
I feel like telling them its not a smoke awning for Smokers.
Its for people to lock there bikes up in.
When ones comes out of the Gym feeling healthy its horrible to have to stand there unlocking your bike, and putting on crach helmet, coat gloves, (which takes time ) whilst inhaling piles of smelly cigarette smoke.
AIBU ?

YANBU. Why don't you ask the gym staff to stick a no smoking sign on it?

hmm maybe a tad intolerant but I'm not sure it's unreasonable to dislke them for it.

On balance YANBU

Gerover it.S'traditional innit bikesheds anall tha'

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YANBU speak to the gym about it....smoking is so disgusting and anti social. Plus they throw their butts all over the floor. at least take your stinky butts home with you!! Rant over

i used to love having a smoke after the gym, t'was lovely.

YANBU you wouldn't be allowed to sit under there and get drunk or smoke weed. Why are ciggarettes an acceptable drug.. Especially when unlike alcohol it always affects those near you?

Just think how much more in taxes you would have to pay if there weren't any smokers. It always amazes me that those who hate smoking never give any thought to the national health service and the state it would be in if not for smokers, who I might hasten to add pay more in tax for a pack of fags than anyone does for a litre of petrol.

how much do we pay the NHS to keept hem alive fabby chick?

The affects of passive smoking to bicycles is devastating.

I wish it was! Bicycles should be banned!

People more than pay for their health care with the taxes on cigarettes a packet of fags has at least 5 tax on the fags themselves are cheap to manufacture.

Someone smoking 40 a day contributes 70 a week to the government.

If everybody gave up smoking there is no way the government could suffer the loss.

I smoke and have never needed any hospital care and Im 46.

My dad is 70 and has emphasemia caused by working as a carpenter, even though he smoked that was not the cause, he has himself never been in hospital.

Smokers may well die of cancer and need treatment then but by then they have more than paid for it.

Obese people cost the NHS more.

What tax do they pay, maybe we ought to introduce fat tax.

What about the 25,000 people a year who die from COPD? And the thousands above that requiring NHS care? 90% of COPD is caused by smoking

lol at bikes and passive smoking though

Obese people cost the NHS more.

yes, so we don't want to put people off cycling to the gym

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Well, if the government actually gave the smoking tax to the NHS that argument would be valid.... as it is, it just isn't.

It's a stupid argument anyway. Did you really start smoking and continue to smoke just to pay the taxes for the government? How altruistic of you.

Stop trying to justify it, you sound silly. If you smoke, take it on the chin - you smoke, end of. No need to keep bleating the same old daft blurb. This was about people smoking in the bike shelter...

What Mofo said

'I smoke and have never needed any hospital care and Im 46.'

So does that mean you never will? And in some twisted way you think you smoking is paying for any future care you may need?

I go to pulmonary rehab with a load of people with COPD. They probably thought they'd always be fine too. Believe me, you do not want that disease.

Put your coat, gloves and helmet on in the gym...that way you've only got to unlock your bike and bugger off.

Problem solved

yes worra,people have to much time on their hands..oh and people getting knocked off bikes also costs money. also,noone makes obese people stand outside the restaurant!

i also go into vegetarian restaurants,and ask for the meat option

YABU

Get thee dressed in your PPE before you walk out of the gym.

It's pretty odd that smoking is pretty much the only addiction that people feel it's acceptable to be quite so vitriolic about.
And yes, of course it's dangerous to health.... but standing near a smoker OUTSIDE for a few moments will have an entirely negligible effect on your life expectancy. So why is it acceptable to say you "hate smokers" (even in the abstract) rather than saying you "hate smoking"?
The vast majority of people wouldn't DREAM of saying such outrageous things about obese people. But smokers are fair game. Is it because they're more of a minority so an easier target, or what?

For the record: I don't smoke.

Can have more than a negligible affect if you have respiratory problems or are asthmatic, bumperella

However, agree re the language. 'Hating' smokers seems somewhat unnecessary.

The thing is, under an enclosed (even partially) space, you can come out smelling of smoke when you don't, and it's not nice. I think OP meant hating the smoking, rather than the smoker. Some smokers are very considerate about their smoking, some aren't.

Surely there's a proper smoking area at this gym - even if they don't want to give it a high profile, understandably?