To HATE people that smoke under bus shelters

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This really really annoys me......

Why do people have to spoke under a bus shelter??

I dont smoke, it's a disgusting habit and Frankly, I don't want to smell of it.

If I were a smoker I would have the decency to smoke away from the bus shelter

Arabella and gamer what do you think about smokers who waft their fags about in bus stops next to babies in prams/toddlers in buggies? Do complaints about that also make you want to subject even more people to second hand smoke?

I do understand the urge to smoke - just not being completely oblivious/not caring how much it affects other people.

Well, I am SHOCKED that all you non smoking health nuts even contemplate getting on a bus when you can walk/run/jog to your destination.

Addiction is tough, we don't feel particularly great lighting up in public but come on, you've got your pubs and clubs back, let us smoke outdoors.

YANBU. Even an empty bus shelter that somebody has been smoking in makes me want to vomit. I'm really sensitive with smells though. A whiff of perfume can give me a migraine. I'm also pregnant so I can smell a fart within a square mile at the moment.

I can answer the 'why'. It's because it's raining.

This might be hard to explain, but water falls from the sky sometimes and that - believe it or not - is why bus shelters were built.

At tax payers expense I might add.

Anyway if it's not enclosed this comes under irrational fears as if you smoke in Trafalgar square that too is 'enclosed' on all sides by buildings.

Nobody is saying don't smoke outdoors, just not smoke in a partially enclosed space with a sign saying it is against the law to smoke there.

Um I don't care?
The more people rant the less I care.

And babies and kids get facefulls of car exhausts all the time when sitting in buggies and you don't see frothing , snarling and spitting over and over again on Internet forums.

Haaaa I'm not a health nut, I just don't want to breathe in that sort of shit. It's bad enough breathing in the fumes from cars/buses. Smoke all you like outdoors, just have a bit of consideration for people in enclosed places like bus shelters.

Yadnbu

So not only do smokers have to go outside in all weathers to get their fix, we are not allowed to seek cover from the rain?

What lovely compassionate people you are

gamer you sound incredibly selfish. Bet you put your feet on bus seats as well. Nice to know there are people who care so little about making life unpleasant for other people.

On reflection I have seen a solution to this problem. Remove all bus shelters.

No one really needs them (or no one would expect the smoker to stand out in the rain) and that would improve the nation's health hugely right?

If I start a petition will you all sign it?

just have a bit of consideration for people in enclosed places like bus shelters bus shelters are not enclosed are they?

Well, I am SHOCKED that all you non smoking health nuts even contemplate getting on a bus when you can walk/run/jog to your destination.

In my daughter's case it's because she has chronic asthma and is currently incapable of walking any further than the nearest bus stop. Last week when it rained some person who decided that their right to smoke overrode the no-smoking signs put her in hospital.

Around me a lot of the bus shelters are weird. They have 2 entrances but on opposite ends so no fresh air gets blown through, so I would class that as enclosed.

Last week when it rained some person who decided that their right to smoke overrode the no-smoking signs put her in hospital.

No they didn't. I don't mind the light hearted sparring about it, but this kind of thing has to stop.

If smoke wafting across a pavement did that then she'd have been hospitalised already for her own safety. Letting her stand there breathing car exhaust fumes would have been criminal.

I do find it amusing that you assume I'm an 'inconsiderate' smoker... don't get your knickers in a twist life's too short

No they didn't. I don't mind the light hearted sparring about it, but this kind of thing has to stop.

Because it was raining the person smoking was stood in the enclosed bus stop that my daughter was also in. We are not talking about smoke drifting across a pavement we are talking smokers who are completely ignoring the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces.

The worst thing is when a smoker sits beside you in the bus shelter, absent mindedly flicking ash at you. Obviously it's not intended, but it's sure rude and irritating.

Oh give over. If someone wants to smoke a fag they can do it outside of the shelter. It is annoying when we have come out of a hospital appointment where ds has a chest X-ray because of his crappy lungs, and then we have to stand in a shelter in clouds of smoke, or stand in the rain if we want to avoid the smoke. That isn't being hysterical. I understand it is an addiction (I smoked for years, I know how hard it is to give up), but if you want to smoke stand away from people (especially children) and not in an enclosed (or semi enclosed) area. And the difference between car fumes and cigarette smoke, is that one is unavoidable and the other is avoidable if people are considerate.

I hate getting on a bus with screaming children, I suffer with anxiety and sensitive ears. Can people not take children on the bus during commuting hours please

If you are referring to my daughter and making a dig at me 3leetlekeettens then I am afraid you are way of the mark, my daughter is an adult and was herself commuting.

I make an effort to keep my children quiet on buses - they're not screaming babies any more although my son does have Asperger's so sometimes we struggle, although we have removed ourselves from situations before, partly to calm him down and partly to save other people's ears.

Some people are so pathetic!!!!

Consider other people

Take your addiction somewhere else

3LeetleKittens, I am sorry that you suffer with anxiety and sensitive ears. Ds also struggles with noise, and of course certain noises are unavoidable, so we have ear defenders (ear plugs would work just as well, but he won't tolerate them in his ears) for those occasions. A slight difference between his sensitivity to noise and inhaling second hand smoke is that the noise won't be doing any physical damage to his ears, whereas the secondhand smoke is physically irritating to his lungs, and of course it would be easy for the smoker to stand outside the shelter, then there would be no problem.

YABVU you will not smell of smoke and this seems to be your main problem.
You would smell somebody smoking if they stood 50 ft away from the shelter if the wind was blowing it in your direction, and they could miss their bus.