Smoking in a children's play area right next to busy swings and sandpit.....

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Family of 4 adults and 2 children, sitting on the picnic bench right next to a busy swing area and sandpit, and three of them were smoking.

I hate the smell of smoke, and I don't want my children exposed to that shit either.

This isn't a thread about hating smokers, but surely they could have gone outside the play area and satisfied their craving?

I just did a quick google and Nottingham City Council have banned smoking in playgrounds and outside school gates. I think this should be a national law.

If it's a no smoking area, tell them so nicely. I take far too much pleasure in chasing people out of no smoking areas at work!

Outdoors?.... Tobacco smoke smells bad but so do a lot of other things. If they'd stood outside the play area, do you think the wind wouldn't have carried the offensive smell back? YABU....

There's no "No Smoking" sign on the gate, so they can smoke there if they want. But it's so anti-social, especially when there are small children and babies right next to them.

I'd think if they went outside the play area there would be less chance of children and other adults from inhaling the second hand smoke.

A lot of things are antisocial - too-loud music pumping out of hatchbacks, bad language, halitosis - but in a free society we don't make laws against everything. We've removed smokers from indoor public spaces pretty effectively and for good reasons. But to ban them from the great outdoors just because a child's nostrils might be offended ... no.

When I did smoke back in the day, I wouldn't dream of doing so in a kiddies playground or where there were lots of kids and families about.

YANBU.

yanbu - it's common sense and good manners to not smoke where it really is inappropriate - and not hard to move to somewhere that would be less intrusive in an area designed specifically for children.

ban them from the great outdoors

It's no though is it? It's just a kids playground. Which is for kids not smoking adults.

Imagine the toddlers eating the butts. Yummy.

doesn't make any of it "right" cogito though

Yanbu, I wish people wouldn't do it. It is so rough.

But to ban them from the great outdoors just because a child's nostrils might be offended ... no.

But it's not just their nostrils being offended....it's their lungs too.

I'm a smoker and I don't smoke around my child or other children atall if I can help it, and I definitely wouldn't smoke in a playground. But that's just me.

It is the littering aspect that annoys me more than the smoke, outside.

I have been to beautifully paved gardens in country houses etc and the only litter is fag butts.

I think that we need new stratagies on litter, tbh. There is no need for how dirty most of our country is (getting old).

Also, there were 3 of them smoking. So triple the amount of smoke.

I hate this. We were at a farm play area thing this week ( field with trampolines, hay bales, bouncy pillow, go karts etc - you know the sort of thing I mean) and there were a group sitting beside the trampolines who were smoking and it just felt wrong with so many small children around. They could have quite easily moved out of the play area to have their fag for a couple of mins.

I'm in Scotland and we've had the smoking ban for 6 years now and so I really notice when people are smoking around me as it is so rare now.

It was impolite but it's not going to harm the kids

Who cares.

Just be thankful that their poor kids are getting some respite from the smoke.

< takes grip and breaks it in half, in sheer rage >

id be thankful it was just fag smoke, we had the pleasure of two young lads, one a dad - smoking pot right by playgound, and loudly swearing, every other word was *UCK. lovely!

Did they have trouble with the letter F?

YANBU

As there were 4 of them, 3 smoking they could have gone outside the play area to smoke and leave non smoking 4th person to watch the kids.

But to ban them from the great outdoors just because a child's nostrils might be offended ... no. If it was the case of just the smell it owuldn't be an issue, but it's not just the smell it's all the cancer causing chemicals.

Theres an awful lot of smoking going on in parks today.

I think it is inconsiderate to smoke in an area designated for children.