To want smoking banned in public playgrounds

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why should I remove my child because a smoker ( two in my case today) thinks it's okay to smoke in a small enclosed playground.

Can't they wait til their children have finished? Bloody selfish in my opinion ( as a ex smoker)

The Lord alone knows how those of us slightly over the age of thirty have lived this long, to be honest. Waiting til outside the car and in the park was considered considerate when I was a precious tiny!

I need a fag to relieve the boredom of childrens playgrounds

And what Pious says- common courtesy, really.

but Moondog I started at twelve. Not old enough to choose wisely. I understand that most smokers start young, when they are most impressionable.

Personally I think the sooner we ban smoking in public places the better. This thread has shown me that there are still people who put their need to smoke above social decency upwards children.

Maybe if there were more considerate smokers this would be a non issue.

There is no need to smoke in a play area.

There is a need to use transport. (arguable, but to an extent true)

Besides, objecting to one doesn't rule out objecting to both.

Have a bit of will power.

It flipping stinks!

To be honest, no, it never occurred to me to worry about my children's health whenever they incidentally find themselves walking by someone who smokes open air.

I'd worry if some crazy smoker regularly sneaked in my house and blow the smoke of 5 cigarettes over their innocent faces while they are asleep...

Yanbu i can't stand this.

I am with the so called considerate smokers' lobby on this thread - I try not to be offensive with my disgusting habit too! But a complaint was made against me, to my boss, by a parent of a child in my class, because she (parent) saw me smoking in MY garden (over the fence on a SATURDAY)!! It was apparently "bad for her child to be taught by someone who lives "like this " ".

OK....

Both my grandparents smoked, my father grew up with it and he does not smoke.

I smoked for 10 years of my son's life, he's so anti-smoking its unbelieveable. I've always told him that smoking is completely illogical, why would anyone want to set light to a stick of tobacco and paper and inhale the result? Then I joke that Walter Raleigh got it wrong, we should have smoked the potato and eaten the tobacco.

I've given up smoking for over a year now and he is very proud of me. The only reason I would not have smoked in front of other people was if they'd asked me not to. Did you ask, OP?

I don't think the danger is from the odd whiff of fag smoke ; it's from the perception in young minds that it can't be that bad to smoke because it's done in public.

Heroin kills less people than tobacco - would you want to see people injecting in the street/playgrounds/etc? I don't think so. So why is smoking OK?

Aw, cat, that is ridiculous!

I am not petrified for my kids' health - I just think it is stinking!

That is madness catnao

When I was at school we used to see the science teacher sneak out mid lesson for a quick smoke - now I could understand parents complaining about that (but they never did that I know of!) but you smoking in your own garden is not going to harm her child in any way.

YADNBU I HATE the smell of fags, it's disgusting and I hate having to breathe it in and I hate my clothes stinking of it. I sometimes think the people I know who smoke are so used to it they don't know how much they or it stinks, even after it's been put out. It gets in your hair and clothes especially. I know it doesn't do as much damage as cars but it doesn't do as much as damage as plenty of things - that doesn't make it good, just less bad, and in fact car fumes etc don't stink half as much, and standing away from it is rubbish, air travels as does that stink. Even if you're sat in a traffic jam and open your window you can smell it from the car in front/car behind if someone is smoking - I really think people who are used to it become blind to it after a while - like the way no one can smell their own 'home smell'.
Anyway rant over, and I couldn't care less if anyone thinks I'm over the top. I hate smoking with a passion, and especially hate seeing people smoking around kids it's selfish and vile - it's just a shame the government makes too much money out of it otherwise they might bother to tackle it seriously.

Catnao that is silly I agree!

I was a smoker- behaved very much like pious. I'm not completely anti smoking just in places where children play.

I don't like walking past a crowd of smokers but I can hold my breath or cross over. I just dont see why a smoker should be allowed to smoke in a play area.

I agree, I need a fag to endure the boredom of hanging out at the kids playground, of course if I was respectful and went outside/somewhere else they'd have the SS onto me for abandoning my child!! sigh.

I don't think I should have had to ask her not to.

She was accompanied by her husband. There was another man smoking accompanied by two other adults. Me feeling Slightly outnumbered!

I did manage to make my point when my ds asked why we were leaving.

I just dont see why a smoker should be allowed to smoke in a play area

Excellent. Will you join my campaign to stop kids running around screaming in the beer garden at the pub?
Sign up here............

To modify myprevious post- if I go a large playground and I can go into a corner where there aren't any kids about-I might sit on a bench with a coffee and light up.

But people who stand next to a slide full of 3 yos and blow the smoke over them? Not on, imo.

My boss had the cheek to relay this ridiculous complaint to me, and asked me to be more "discreet". I told him (politely) where to stick it, and added that if he objected to my stance, I would seek legal advice.

MY GARDEN ON A SATURDAY! I was brought up Catholic, and the parent who complained is on her third marriage - and she is in the police force - I may complain that I don't want my community served by people "who live like this" - oh, or wait - would that make me a ridiculous twat?

Suburb don't use social services as a scapegoat for your lack of self control

"it's from the perception in young minds that it can't be that bad to smoke because it's done in public."

I don't think I agree. Young people know that smoking is bad for your health (I did), but risks seem so distant in the future that they aren't as tangible as they should be.
Also, young people start to smoke because their peers do so, not because they saw their teachers or any other adult smoking, imho.

Diet, yuo will surely combust with your inflate sense of self righteousness.
What a hoot you must be. Not.

Catnao, that is staggering.
Positively orwellian.
Cheeky bitch.

suburbophobe -

op - whilst I understand that you didn't like this person smoking over your DC, it is an open area.

Whilst the majority of mn on here seem to think all smokers should be burned at the stake - just think how much more tax you would have to pay to fund the shortfall for the NHS.........