To ask smokers to move away from station entrance?

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I don't like walking through a cloud of smoke to get into station. It's a small station, with single entrance on this side of tracks - like double French doors, so no other alternative.

Would it be unreasonable to request Greater Anglia to mark out a hashed yellow "no-smoking" area there? It's not as if it actually provides them any shelter from the weather than standing elsewhere, and don't get me started on the litter of their stubs!

I've tried (politely) asking smokers not to stand right by the entrance, but just get verbal abuse back!

YANBU. At all.

YANBU. Revolting having to walk through that. Ask the train company to sort it. Xx

Ex smoker here. Sorry but if its legal where they are standing, suck it up, you probably wear offensive perfume/deodorant/eat peanuts/have chronic halitosis etc ... how long does it take you to move through? four seconds? ten seconds?

I wish they could move designated smoking areas away from all entrances - especially hospitals.

There will always be someone offended, wherever they stand!

I think at a lot if stations there is an exclusion zone just outside but they ignore it.

Yanbu - this gets my goat too.

The worst thing is people smoking in queues - you just can't get away from it!

I think London Underground should provide free squirts of anti perspirant to those holding on to the ceiling straps because I don't like being exposed to others BO.

You just can't get away from it!
Yes you can. Just move indoors.

I think the couple of milliseconds that the OP's life is affected by this grave and heinous issue as she walks through CANCER FLOATING IN THE OUTSIDE AIR is definitely worth a thread on mumsnet, not to mention a strongly worded letter to the authorities. Maybe you can get UN-mandated air strikes in place, such as are reserved for similarly very serious matters.

You non-smokers hounded smokers outdoors - now suck it up!

The worst thing is people smoking in queues - you just can't get away from it!

This is true. I mean, my fucking leg fell off the other day, and can I walk? Can I bastard. But that is nothing, let me tell you, NOTHING compared to someone sparking up a fag in the open air somewhere in your vicinity. Write to your MP. It's worth it, really it is.

yanbu op I complained to westfield in Stratford last year because I could smell the smoke inside the shopping centre (entrance from tube) others must have as well because they now have a smoking area.

Well, that was time well-spent. You don't get it back, you know.

Crikey... yes yabu.

Yanbu at all. But then again I'm one of those annoying ex smokers who now gets on their high horse about these things! But in all seriousness, it's disgusting to have to walk through a cloud of smoke, why can't they just be considerate and stand a but further away from the entrance?

Cruikshank

It was worth posting it just for your response!

It's worse outside a hospital entrance to be honest. The smoke drifts upwards, into the wards where all of the sick folk and children are. I was chuffed when I spotted a security guard telling people to move a few weeks ago.

I totally agree but only if perfume, fast food and nail varnish is also banned from the trains. Does a 2 sec walk through fag smoke really bother you more than all the other smells you can't avoid on the train?

Same problem outside our block of flat entrance. Heard the children from next door mention to littered butts on the way to school

Sorry but if its legal where they are standing, suck it up

I never get this attitude around MN - so long as something's legal, it doesn't matter how inconsiderate it is and how uncomfortable it makes other people, or indeed how it may exacerbate their health problems. It's perfectly legal to go round being an arsehole when dealing with other people, it doesn't mean they should just suck it up.

The point here is that people coming into a small station entrance have no choice but to run the smoke gauntlet if the smokers are all gathered round that entrance. However, if the smokers are moved down the road slightly, others can choose to give them a wide berth and avoid it. Minimal if any inconvenience to smokers, non-smokers happy. What's wrong with that?

I once heard that there was a bloke smoking in Glasgow. I drove all the way there, furious at this threat to my health from his smelly idiot cancer-stick, and remonstrated with him. He put his fag out, alright ... in my fucking eye. Still, that's smokers for you.

Nail varnish?!

Has the rail network been take over by herds of guerrilla nail technicians?

MrsPiggie. Very good point. I guess I just have a thing against smokers at the moment as it's not been proven that passive Lynx inhalation has any health concerns.

I do hold my breath as I go through.

I think it's about time smoking was banned in all public places. Smoking in the street. Yuk!