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.

It would give them the right, but it wouldn't make them unreasonable.

It's unreasonable to go round putting signs up like that in the first place, given the fact a small (and let's not forget it is small) amount of smoke flying away on the breeze, isn't going to do any lung damage.

If anyone's lungs were that weak, they wouldn't be outside anyway as the pollen and car fumes would have them coughing up a kidney.

*reasonable

YANBU

& smokers, smoke inside your own house, I don't want to smell it in my garden. Let your kids endure the smoke, not mine, thanks.

What? Signs like this?

If you were worried that much about your Dc lungs you wouldnt leave your house maybe you should go live on a mountain get some really fresh air.

It is incredibly, incredibly rude. (Just to declare my prejudices on the topic - I was a light smoker for years and still do have a very occasional cigarette.)

In an area intended for children, don't smoke. If there are children already in the spot you approach, don't smoke. Yes, it is that simple and shoudl be that obvious.

If I am in the park with kids, and I see a smoker sitting on a bench (assuming it is not a no-smoking zone), I'd be out of line to sit down beside them and ask them to put it out. But if I'm sitting with my kids, and a smoker walks over to the bench, sits down and lights up, they are completely out of line.

At bus shelters, walk a distance away. Oh, and if it is raining and there is one covered area in the entire vacinity? don't smoke and make everyone else breathe it - walk away. Don't want to get wet yourself? Don't smoke just then. But don't make other people have to choose betwen getting soaked OR being forced to breathe in your smoke.

Smoking around other people's kids is assholery of the highest order.

Assholery is what makes non-smokers insist on legislation in the first place.

If I lived on a mountain, I'd have LESS oxygen to breathe. Not exactly my idea of fresh air.

Depends how far up the mountain you were OP. I do agree smokers shouldnt smoke next to children but I cannot actually be bothered to get arsed about it if someone sparked up in a park.