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)

YANBU. They should NOT be smoking within a playground. Any place meant primarily for children should be out of bounds for smoking.

At DD1's school smoking is banned anywhere on the property. In the playground, fields, carpark, or even inside your own car while you are within the school compound. Good on them I think, they are thinking of the example it sets to children.

I dont want to breathe in other peoples perfume, body odour, stinking food that they are scoffing as they walk along, but it happens.

I preferred pubs when you could smoke in them, and they used air filters to extract the smoke. Now you can smell everything else in the pubs and it isnt pleasant. I hate the smell of greasy fried food and it puts me off my food if someone near me is eating smelly food.

Catnao are you actually me?

Second hand smoking is more damaging than smoking

More damaging?

Do you have any links/facts to back that up?

Inside your car. How ironic. Please stop driving, you lot. And flying. I don't do either.

Well, marginalising substances doesn't look to be/have been a very successful policy, does it?

At least people pay taxes on legal cigarettes.

Whoops, I forgot we can't use that argument. Nor can we use the car fumes/pollution argument.

Lets not keep debating.

Pious prat - i MAy be you and if I am, you can take the flak for this one! I live in a wholly organic food situation. I do not drive. I do not fly. I do not use chemical cleaners. I DO smoke home rolled tobacco when I feel like it. Whose carbon foot print is worse, do you think? mine, or some of the anti smoking brigade?

They're killing my children!

(I've only got one, but children sounds better than child! )

There was a smog warning the other day ..so thats your stinking cars doing that

Oh no Cat, you can't use the carbon footprints argument too. You are just selfish and irresponsible.

Such intellect resorting to calling me a nutcase garlicbutter.

Yeah but Catnoa - when you're too breathless to wipe your own arse, you'll be relying on a non smoker to do it for you. And look after the child you leave behind after you blow your lungs out in a pool of blood on a hospital floor.

The denial never ceases to amaze me.

Shit, Franca! You've just goaded me into lighting a wholly irresponsible cig - and the blinds are open, so I may be corrupting THE CHILDREN!!!!

Yeah. Sassy beast - thanks for the fumes...

Do you drive? Or use central heating? Or fly? Or use trains? Annoying for those of us who don't.

What Catnao, are you blaming me for your vices? Typical.

Sassy, how do you know the nurse wiping my ass won't smoke guilty fags on her breaks?

I drive, I use central heating but I don't deliberately pump my body full of toxic crap and expect others to pick up the pieces for my child when I'm dead. But it's not going to happen to you of course

I loved "small enclosed playground" :o

I may start up again just to annoy people who say things like that.

I was thinking about the smog warning too. I reckon we should stick some signs up saying that anyone behind the wheel of a car is a child murderer. We won't worry about keeping a sense of proportion since the anti smoking loons don't.

Doesn't everyone 'use' trains/transport in some sense - even if you walk to your local shop the probablity is that the stuff you buy there came in a van or may have even been flown half way across the world - I'm not saying that's a good thing, just wondering whether that's the case.
Also, I would say that all those things are bad but one doesn't cancel out the other. Just because I don't smoke, it doesn't mean I don't think I have some responsibility for the other things I do do like use central heating, but I suppose that the direct comparison with the point the OP was making would be that I wouldn't park my car next to the swing and leave the engine running? Just as some people wouldn't dream of lighting up next to a kid on a swing but some idiots do.

It is banned around here. As is cycling in playgrounds. Routinely ignored but at least you can say something, point to signs etc.

YANBU.
Completely selfish and irresponsible to smoke anywhere where children are.
I am too an ex smoker. I didn't give up smoking so that other people could smoke around my children.

Glad to hear some councils have banned it. Will be looking to encourage our council to do same.

Threads like this always drive me to and [fags]

MmaIvvy, it's no use being sensible about it. The anti-smokers know for a fact that every bad thing that ever happened was because of smokers and nothing they did could possibly have a bad effect because they don't smoke.

"I wouldn't park my car next to the swing and leave the engine running?. No but you'd stop at a crossing and sit there pumping out fumes as mums with kids crossed the road.

YANBU (ex smoker alert) - I have picked numerous dog ends out of the sandpit in our local park. Pisses me off mightily. Sadly not every smoker follows Piousprat's example.

I realise my kids will see people smoking but I just hate it. My Dad, a smoker of 50 years standing has just had a third of his lung chopped out because of bastard smoking.