To feel annoyed with smokers outside the hospital entrance

[Sistermoondance]

I am sitting outside the hospital entrance waiting to be picked up. Thoroughly annoyed as they rescheduled my appointment without telling me.

And everywhere I look there are no smoking signs- on the benches and on the Walls saying that smoking is prohibited. And all I can smell is smoke from about 10 people- either patients or visitors. Can these people not read!!! And if I can smell it I am breathing it in and so are the other poor patients who've come out for fresh air!

I haven't said anything as I don't want to start a row, but I am seething. Either these people are visitors in which case they could walk somewhere where people are not sitting, or they re patients in which case going without a fag would do them good!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

If it's a no-smoking area there will be no bins. I doubt very much people are all carrying little tins to put their butts in.

Doley I'm the last person you'd think would be able to pack
In. Even I was amazed but those patches work and good old fashioned willpower xxx

fag butts, not arse butts

Well done taylor :) genuinely !

YY to Worrability.
I started smoking at 16, I'm now 54.
The anti smoking warnings were just starting to come through, cigarettes were cheap and everybody smoked (this was in the seventies).
I've given up a few times but have always gone back though I do still intend to stop.
It's true, anti smoking threads have loads of people wading in about how terrible we are yet anyone that puts in a thread on about obesity gets flamed.
Food can be an addiction for the same reasons cigarettes can.
Neither is good.

Neither is good, but perhaps the majority if people agree with me, hence the fat people getting more sympathy.

When my wife was 8 months pregnant, I was waiting outside the hospital while she went to the loo inside, and said to a bloke smoking immediately by the door "My wife is 8 months pregnant and about to come through, would you mind standing over there?", pointing to a corner with other smokers, but not near where people were likely to pass. I was expecting abuse, but he very politely moved over.

There are signs and there are rules, and people are blatantly ignoring them. Yanbu op. A hospital is a place for sick people who should not have to wade through a fug of smoke. My sister was recently in hospital with pnemonia, seriously ill and she couldn't open the window because of the smokers outside.

YANBU it's disgusting and should be banned altogether.

We had to walk through a cloud ofvsmoke to get into the nursery this morning, who actually thinks that smoking outside the entrance of s nursery is OK, idiots.

In fact I think anyone who smokes is a complete idiot anyway, but maybe I'm biased as fags were put before food in our house growing up.

Sorry, no-one has to 'wade' through smoke. You simply walk through it as it disperses into the open air.

YABU.

Sorry worralliberty, I've waded through smoke in a hospital before now, seriously.
I know a hospital where they smoke in between the two sets of doors when it's raining outside

I'ts outside! I think visitors should move away from the door but patients should be allowed to stay.
I also still think most obesity is simply overeating, for whatever reason.
Comfort eating and comfort smoking are one and the same thing and my struggle to try and stop smoking is equal to anybody on a diet.

'Wading' means walking through a liquid or something that impedes your movement.

If there is smoke in the outside air, you 'walk' through it.

Pedantic yes, but people make me laugh when they try to 'build up' the difficulty in just walking through a bit of smoke outside. God knows how these people act at BBQs.

It's not difficult, it's unpleasant

they just gave to move a bit further away so it's not as unpleasant for the poor sick non-smokers

I give up
op, I don't think you are being unreasonable.

It isn't nice having to walk through cigarette smoke to get into a building, it worries me that I'll then smell of cigarette smoke.

We had this problem at our local hospital and the hospital gave up banning it and turned one of the consultant parking bays into a smoking area. Its 10ft from the entrance but people still stand right by the doors and smoke. It makes the ground floor consulting rooms reek of fags.

It is not pleasant to walk through a cloud of smoke and get a lungful. I don't take my DS to barbecues and bonfires as he ended up in hospital with a severe asthma attack and I am shit scared of it happening again. So I would be livid if someone was selfish enough to smoke in such a way that meant there was no option but for him to walk through it to get to hospital or nursery.

Again I am utterly baffled that people are defending this. It is just not on.

Op, yadnbu. I had to wheel ds2 into hospital frequently over the course of 3 years and I would VERY LOUDLY request that the smokers moved away from the entrance to let a little boy through with Cancer. They mostly shuffled away but the stench, fumes and noxious chemicals remained. The o ly time I was verbally abused was by a pregnant woman! How sorry do I feel for her children.

ah see I asked this at the help desk and she said yes offically no smoking by doors etc and theres a smoking place across the roa dbut no one uses it and they can not enforce it

yanbu.

You don't get a mouthful of fat when standing next to an obese person - that's a reason that it is treated with more understanding, you are only harming yourself.

YANBU, but I do wish they had a place to go or there was more support for people who want to give up while in hospital. I think you are BU to lay all the blame on the smokers themselves during one of the hardest times of their lives.

YANBU.
I was at hospital today complaining about this.
It doesn't matter how many signs they put up in hospitals the idiots just don't pay any attention. I was a hardened smoker for 20 years but I was also conscious of not just smoking wherever I fucking pleased.
There are signs on doors, signs on the gates, signs on the cafe tables, signs on benches, NO SMOKING signs everywhere. Do they pay any attention? Nah.
If you smoke anywhere in hospital grounds you are a wanker. Simple.

People are defending smoking because it is legal. If you don't like something that is legal that is your problem.

You anti-smokers demanded that smokers be made to go outside. I'm laughing at your dismay that you got what you wished for. In future you might want to be more careful of your demands.

YANBU. I hate this too. A few weeks ago I sat on the only bench in the sun outside hospital to have my lunch ( it was a busy sunday on call I wanted 15 mins fresh air and sunshine) I was fed up with the no of people who chose to stand smoking a few feet from me (pregnant) and 2 elderly people. I politely pointed out the no smokings signs. Most moved away one woman was really rude and called me ignorant!!! I replied that she was ignorant of the health risk and good manners. The Nhs is not a place for smoking imo.

blimey smokers have to go somewhere, and it is legal!

lol at the nhs is not the place for smoking, bet about 80% of nurses smoke.