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

I shall also learn to preview my message and correct my spelling mistakes :o

Oh stop moaning

smoking vs obesity is not a valid comparison.

people smoking at an entrance means i have to walk through a foul-smelling cloud of smoke and toxins. it's an unhealthy habit that has direct effects on other people.

When they came for the drinkers, I didn't stand up for them because I did not drink.

When they came for the cmokers, I didn't stand up for them because I did not smoke.

When they came for the fat ones, I didn't stand up for them because I was thin.

When they came for me, there was no-one left to stand up for me.

Nothing more guaranteed to send a shiver up my spine at our local hospital than the heavily pregnant women outside the maternity unit puffin' away. I feel my inner Ms Judgypants stirring.

YANBU.

Nearly every single time I go to our local hospital (which has BANNED smoking on the grounds), there is some arsehole puffing away in the doorway of the maternity entrance. Too fucking self-centered to move a few feet away so they're not blowing smoke straight into the hospital.

forgot to add, I say something to those arseholes every time and I've made complaints to the hospital about enforcing the ban. Last thing I needed after spending 5 days in hospital was to walk through a crowd of idiots and their toxic smoke.

I definitely don't save it for online!

Haw the divil are ya? I can't believe our babies are 21 months old!

hiya! I'm ok, just trying to drop the last feed now! Time flies eh?

Gosh, good luck with that! DD3 still inordinately attached to her "mulky". Doesn't like any time soon I'll be stopping...

*look like

I just went looking for our post-natal thread- it looks very sad and neglected, nobody's posted on it since early Jan.

Really, people, REALLY, is it that horrendous for you to 'walk through a cloud of smoke', really?

Or are we just making a moral judgement here people???

You can be out of 'the vile cloud' in seconds.

Is it such an affront to you?

Jeysus, the viles & their 'terrible addictions'

Fags, food, booze, sweets, where will it end?? They'll be fucking in the streets next.

& me an upholder of the mores of society.

Thank the living twat I'm so pure I may pass judgement on others.

Amen.

No, spiderlegs, cigarette smoke really is disgusting to non-smokers. It makes your clothes and hair stink when you get anywhere near it, and you have to wade through acres of discarded butts and stop your children from picking them up.

On the plus side, our friendly tramp manages to reconstitute his own roll-ups from discarded butts, thereby recycling and saving himself some money.

yes spiderslegs, it REALLY is. Makes my eyes water, makes me cough, makes my hair and clothes stink, and gives me a nice dose of secondhand smoke to breathe in and damage my lungs, all because some fuckwit can't read or doesn't care enough to move from in front of a FUCKING HOSPITAL!

yes spiderlegs, it is an affront. why should i breathe toxic shit in 'for a few seconds'? There's no need to breathe it at all.

It's not judgy. If people want to breathe it themselves, then I am not bothered. I am bothered when they are forcing it onto me. I don't want that decision made (badly) for me, thank you very much.

No Spiderlegs, of course it isn't that horrendous....they just say it is, because smoking is a big bad no no these days. There's nothing folks like more than getting up in arms about fuck all....particularly when they are confident that other rah rah ranters will back them up. Walking past a few smokers affects them not in the least, but basking in the glow of the sanctimonious collective is too much to resist. No-one's health has ever been affected by walking past a smoker in a doorway.

Ohhh, I am basking n the glow of righteous indignation.

'Wade through discarded butts' knee deep then??

'Makes my hair & clothes stink & damages my lungs'

'breath toxic shit'

The hyperbole is what's killing me

I don't smoke, but from extensive time in hospital, where I used to wheel myself from my room to the entrance to get some fresh air and peace and quiet, there were always several smokers. Often I did that at 3am, and there would still be the occasional one. Even though I don't smoke, and was in a lot sicker state than half the people complaining about one seconds exposure as they walk in, I didn't care at all.

Nearly every person who smoked outside was a patient. Some of them were extremely ill (and not in the most part from smoking related diseases before you begin to judge) and I don't think I could've found it in my heart to begrudge them a momentary satisfaction in the form of a cigarette or two. Nor would I have asked people who were often in wheel-chairs, or attached to IV drips to move into the carpark so they wouldn't inconvenience the able bodied walking past.

if you want to breathe smoke then go right ahead. the choice is yours. as it is (or rather should be) mine.

Sorry - hyperbole? Comparing smokers to minorities persecuted by the Nazis?

No-one has answered my question about litter

That post was to spiderslegs, referring to LadyThumb's post, BTW

Nazis, massive genocide killers = smoking in a doorway

Yabu, these are fellow human beings with an addiction, an addiction that is harder to beat that heroin. In a small area outside. It is not going to kill you, as it is outdoors. I am a non smoker with asthma, so not an indignant smoker defending rights. Our hospital has a smoking area, it is on a boulevard, in the circle driveway in front of the front entrance. But people do stick to it and don't smoke at the entrance or on the benches, from what I have seen.
I feel pity for the people shivering outside in the cold weather, with their wheel chairs and IV's, puffing away outside. The hospital here does offer nicotine patches to patients, at least it does in the psychiatric ward, as I was visiting someone there and they told me. Not sure about other wards.

I suggest you write a letter of complaint to the hospital, and you suggest to them they have a designated smoking area.