To ask smokers to move away from station entrance?

[PinkyAndTheBump]

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!

I think they should bring back those smoking carriages on the Underground, remember them?

Smoked sardines, nom-nom-nom

Yeah fack orf daisychain you had your 5 minutes of fame

UKIP voters would surely prefer to be offed by the English long bow.

I wish people would stop fucking moaning. It really isn't that bad any more.

I don't know how old everyone whingeing about smoke in bus shelters is but when I was young there were no fucking bus shelters so the smoke went up into the atmosphere while the rain came down on us.

When I was a little girl my mum, who'd given up, worked in a food shop. I distinctl remember the ructions when the staff were banned from smoking over the sandwiches and had to smoke out the back.

People smoked freely everywhere, including in enclosed areas such as planes, cinemas, trains, buses, taxis and pubs.

I've never smoked. I'd not notice it unless someone flicked ash on my clothes. After a night out I'd fall into bed but have to wash my hair in the morning because as a non-smoker it made me feel sick.

That was far worse, so stop whining about having to pass the diminishing number of UK smokers - 20 per cent - apparently.

I expect you also walked bare foot to school in six feet of snow Limited.

No, because it doesn't snow much in Essex VintageJazz

Its all a bit hysterical, isn't it limited ?
I'm surprised any of us born before the smoking ban have survived tbh.

I could smell the pollution when I last went to the city. Cars do stink.

So how does that justify adding to the pollution?

Must have been all that cigarette smoke, warming the atmosphere. I bet this stupid ban will cause a second ice age. Then we'll all be sorry!

I don't smoke or drive

But seriously, some people just love smoker bashing like they feel all superior about not having a nicotine addiction.

I think these people need to chill out and maybe skin up a joint

I guess it can be annoying for a non-smoker to walk through what feels like clouds of smoke to get somewhere they want to go and they can't avoid the smoke. Perhaps smokers could be more considerate, on the other hand perhaps everyone could be more tolerant.

If it is really an issue, write to the train company asking if they can provide a smoking area away from the entrance.

Well, some people didn't bloodywoman.

And how does moaning about a bit of fag smoke sit with jumping into a 4x4 to take the dc's a mile to school in the city, Icimoi ?

Who jumps into 4x4s, ThatBloodyWoman? I certainly don't, never have, never would. How about putting your question another way: how does moaning about a bit of fag smoke sit with running ambulances and fire engines, and providing buses that enable people to get to work?

Like I say, it's a totally irrelevant argument. The fact that pollution sits elsewhere doesn't mean anyone has to be happy about it being added to totally unnecessarily by a pointless and unhealthy activity like smoking.

exists, not sits

"But seriously, some people just love smoker bashing like they feel all superior about not having a nicotine addiction."

Eh no. I couldn't give a stuff if people smoke at home. I just don't like them smoking around me. It's nothing to do with feeling superior and everything to do with absolutely hating the smell of smoke and the way it irritates my eyes and throat.

Smokers should stand well away from the entrance of ANYWHERE. I'm not a natural smoker basher at all, it's just that I really think public buildings are nicer without it, and to me that extends to the immediate vicinity of entrances and exits.

I'm so glad that I've never smoked - not least because I think I'd like it and find it really hard to give up.

It's heartbreakingly bad for you and addictive and I find it distasteful that some people condemn it so.

How would you like it if six or seven people stood around the entrance to a building you needed to access, all spraying themselves with perfume and aftershave? Because that's what it feels like when a group of people are all huddled around a doorway puffing away while people are trying to get in and out. Just move away from the entrance, and show a bit of consideration.

Hello just heard this thread is getting good and fighty.

I think it's fine especially if you are up the duff.

How far away from the entrance would suit you? 5ft? 10ft? A mile or so?
I think you would need to assign a minimum distance between smokers too so the smoke doesn't join up.
And perhaps make byelaws ensuring that smoke is blown away from non-smokers.
Perhaps there should be wind direction charts, updated daily.

Why are the militant smokers getting the hump on this? Nobody is questioning your right to smoke, just move slightly so that non-smokers aren't waling through a fog of smoke to get through a door?

Start showing a bit more reasonableness to others and you might find that the smoker bashing stops

Thebody dive in, mate, its warming up

Some of the people who think its a load of fuss over nothing aren't smokers, let alone militant ones....

OH NO IT ISN'T thebody

Aaah?!