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.

< takes joint and goes off to an open field AWAY from children and playgrounds >

dd is quite mouthy for a 4 year old and whenever she hears people say swear words, she starts talking very loudly saying "mummy that's a naughty word isn't it? We don't say that word its very naughty..." and so on, until I tell her to be quiet. She's embarrassed quite a few people doing that :)

OH EXCELLENT. So there is a petition about this: can everyone please sign it to ban smoking in play areas. Brilliant:

please sign the e petition

The closing date is October 2012.

I didn't think we were allowed to link e petitions on MN.

Do you wear a mask to walk down the road to avid traffic fumes too?

Far more carcinogens around than diluted fag smoke wafting on the breeze - including the tarmac roads on a hot day.

I just can't get fussed about it even enough to click the link tbh

Nah, me neither, Worra.

Now spitting I could get fussed about...especially in play areas and parks!

for us though, we go to park and surrounded by smokers, we live on a busy road and at the back - lovely gardens but open windows to get fresh air and on both sides, smokers smoke on a regular clockwork basis by our windows...

Yes car fumes etc are all nasty, but why deliberlaty add to that with smoke..

I just felt sorry with the poor little girl with those men....if they have that much disregard in public, to be swearing the worst I have EVER heard it - and smoking pot, right by playground, what goes on behind closed doors?

I've been to the park this morning. Not one person was smoking so I didn't get to pull my cats bum face.

Dp had one in the car park though

Its either Olympics or smoking in playgrounds on MN today.

JumpingThroughHoops

Do you wear a mask to walk down the road to avid traffic fumes too?

Far more carcinogens around than diluted fag smoke wafting on the breeze - including the tarmac roads on a hot day.

we live on a busy road - we have car fumes at front so cant get fresh air and on both sides at back smokers.

yes of course car fumes are dreadful and constant - so no air there - is it really fair to then have our other source of air cut off for people smoking,....

and surely its not good for anyones lungs to have car fumes and smoke...

That link mention parks, which is just ridiculous. Most parks are deserted when we walk our dog,all year round, in all weathers, my DP smokes.

Until there is research that links disease to levels of second hand smoke outdoors, this is an invasion of liberties.

Why do people always want to ban things? Yes it's unpleasant and a little ant-social and most of us wouldn't do it but that kinda means its not normal anyway, so isn't a big enough problem to flap about. The occasional person behaving badly is always gonna happen. Stop trying to bring about a police state, we'll all regret it in the end.

Ds has asthma which is triggered by cigarette smoke so people smoking in the park does annoy me. Would it be so hard to move away if you can't wait for your cig?

Smoking outside does not erase any harmful effects.

YANBU. The people smoking in the playground were very selfish. They should have moved away to indulge their disgusting habit.

Anyone would think the tiny bit of smoke emitted from a cigarette doesn't blow away on the breeze....

It's minuscule in the grand scheme of things and really isn't worth the clucking and flapping.

The problem is, if they are happy to sit right next to their own children while smoking, then they're not going to be the kind of smoker that takes any notice about how in/appropriate it is to smoke in a kids' playground.

YANBU, by the way.

Very rude to smoke in the actual playground bit. In parks near me, dogs are allowed as are people drinking - wouldn't expect either inside the playground though. Smoking should be the same imo.

No it says "inside the perimeter of children's playgrounds" , not whole parks. Some parks only have a children's playground though.

the amount of cigarette ends at the park where I live shows it's not the odd one though - and constantly stopping ds picking them up - it's just grim

the amount of cigarette ends at the park where I live shows it's not the odd one though - and constantly stopping ds picking them up - it's just grim

The problem with banning it, is that at 9pm at night, sometimes in the snow, when we are walking our dog, it will still be banned, what abour our freedom?

We do all that we can to avoid children, btw (generally that is not just when my DP is smoking).

If we have wardens out patrolling in the interest of public health, then confiscate the unhealthy food that the parents are giving their kids, some of which are more carcinogenic, see who wants the smoking ban then.

YABU. I'm not a smoker and don't like smoking but they were not breaking the law and it seems such a little thing to get all knicker-twisty about in the grand scheme of things.

Some of the swings etc in our parks are not fenced in and there is natural climbing equipment, just in the middle of a field, so how would that work?

Actually, even with a sign outside the park stating "no smoking" it wouldn't stop people from doing it. However, it would give mothers and fathers who do have a problem with their children inhaling second hand smoke the right to go and ask the person to stop smoking, without being unreasonable.