to think smokers should be made to smoke away from people?

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I've always been quite anti smoking had a gran who dies of lung cancer, but since I was pregnant with DD and now that I'm out and about with her it really angers me when people are smoking in public areas, if it were up to me I'd ban smoking in all public places ie high streets, door ways to, restaurants, childrens play areas etc and don't even get me started on the bit outside the hospital and make people smoke in smoking rooms or back streets. I got abuse from a woman the other day who came over to speak to DD and puffed her smoke all over her when I asked her not to.

I know where i'd put my money.

I used to wear Patchouli oil when i was a teenager.

My Ma swore it gave her a headache.

It probably did.

And she deliberately called it PETUNIA oil just to annoy me.

'Ooooh....you've got that Petunia oil on again'!

I wanted to kill her.

What is worse? That Petunia oil or tweed?

Oh God - "Tweed"!

By the way... I wouldn't really be interested in scholes34 experimental results.
But she reminds me of a very annoying undergrad summer student I once supervised (in my previous life) who was just so very, very self-righteous.

I used to give him very labour-intensive experiments to do to keep him out of my hair...

Tweed is The Devil's breath.

PETUNIA oil is Hippy stuff.

I remember smoking on planes and in my office and the cinema. None of that going on now, no siree, and still the moaners moan.

Oh I remember the bliss of going to the back of the plane for a fag.

And (funnily enough) it was apparently better in a way in those days because they had extractor mechanisms that brought in fresh air and expelled the smoke. Whereas now they just recycle the same stale air around the cabin. I read it somewhere so it must be true.

Schipol Airport has a smoker's room - as do a few other European airports. Gawd bless 'em.

I was too young to fag at the back of the plane.

Makes you laugh, non smokers moan about smoking inside pubs/restaurants, everyone is made to go outside. The minute the sun comes out they all want to be outside and expect the smokers to move again

So true Moomins.

The best advice I could give to the 'smokers in the fresh air make me want to die' brigade would be to start smoking.

You're going to end up with a mouth like a cat's arse either way.

hahaha. nice one!

The summer after they bought the smoking ban in our local pub erected smoking shelters, all the non smokers who didn't want to sit in the sun decended on the shelter and had the nerve to pull catsarse faces at the guy who put it up because he dared light up in it!

I hate the smoking ban, it is ridiculous not to have smoking areas in pubs that don't sell food. I can't believe you can get pissed but not smoke inside a club or pub, it's pathetic. The other problem with the smoking ban is that children are now exposed to smokers on every street outside most buildings. Last time I was in the Uk I drove past the thousand or so secondary school kids pouring out and walking down the high street past 3 pubs. The pavement was full of smokers standing outside the pubs and worse, most of them were the toothless sad old all day drinkers who would have been inside in a dark corner before. Nurses outside hospitals, trainers outside gyms and my worst, the ladies who bake the lovely soft loaves outside the bakers with a fag. I can't eat it now just thinking of their horrid smokey fingers.
So yes, I do agree that the gaggles of smokers on the pavements is depressing but blame the smoking ban. Designated ventilated smoking areas should be introduced.

You don't eat bread because the baker might have had a fag? You have heard of gloves, right? You have seen the bakery assistants wearing them? You have heard of sinks and taps and soap? And Food Hygeine Certificates?

. . . and as for the cigarette butts littering the pavement . . .

I love this thread

Good reading while you enjoy a fag.

So do I. I like to see the smokers biting back.

As for whoever said that the merest whiff of cigarette smoke gives her a headache? No it doesn't - you're just a bloody moan who likes to exaggerate for effect. Your complaining gives ME a bloody headache.

'I am genuinely interested to know if smokers feel a bit guilty when they light up in public?'

No I don't. I think you should mind your own damn business and leave me alone. You're not the boss of the outdoors, and I'll do what I like, thanks.

Dont discourage them. Smokers pay for Surestart. Ha.

My one big hate is why is there always more kids than adults in the smoking area's ?
At legoland the smoking area is opersite the fire station (love it!!) but there is ALWAYS loads of little kids running about in there.. my kids dont 'see' me smoke i hate smoking in front of kids...MY choice-not theirs

pictish - not so much a complaint as a comment, and another example of smokers failing to realise their impact on those immediately surrounding them.

I know I'm not the boss of the outdoors, but neither are you. As soon as your smoke comes near me, it becomes my business too. I suppose it's comparable to someone with uncontrollable flatulance sitting next to you.