well done Bristol for banning smoking in 2 public squares, extend this please

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Love that Bristol has banned smoking in public squares. Hope that they start to ban it in parks to and outside train stations. Its horid when you have no choice but to breathe in their crap.

I take that back entirely, it was not him but a woman with cpd and I have just read the (whispers) daily mail article and realised that Boris is anti smoking bans. So I now declare myself wholeheartedly in favour.
I am an ex smoker who lives in Bristol, but I still quite like the naughtiness of being a smoker.

I agree with Treacle, there are several legal activities that are banned in public spaces.

Also, to the OP, there are already signs in most (if not all) of Bristol's playgrounds asking people not to smoke there. I don't think this is enforced, as there aren't wardens in most of the parks. But the request is certainly there.

Hopefully most smokers stay out of the way but in an open space you can easily give a smoker a wide berth so you don't have to inhale their fumes.

To the parents, my two have always been vehemently anti smoking and very sporty as children and teens. My son started college and now smokes, I would never have thought it possible.

On a slightly different tack, I think schools and adverts should stop telling children that their parents will die if they smoke. This is too distressing for children.

I'd be astonished if anyone took the slightest notice of an outdoor smoking ban in Millennium Square!

It's so prissy worrying about smoking in well-ventilated public places, when you can worry about the PM10s blasting out of exhaust pipes instead.

As long as they don't throw their fag butts on the ground, I don't see why smoking should be banned in wide open areas.

Zero chance of that working in practice. Not least because it is on a voluntary basis.

I think individual places like bars and restaurants should have a smoking area outside which is not by the front door, since that's what affects most people-walking through a cloud of smoke. But that's up to them to organise.

Banning smoking in public won't work, you can only ban in certain areas like building entrances and point to dedicated outside areas.

Cant see it working at all, and don't think it's a very good idea either. (non smoker).

I passed a building in London that had a sign on the doorway saying no smoking within 20 meters of this entrance, which opened on to the pavement. I doubted that would be enfocable either except against employees of that company.

A true "ban" needs enforcement. Presumably the OP is happy to pay for that through increased council tax, or rearranged police priorities ?

What would the OP sacrifice to enforce a ban ?

I agree about the prissiness (seriously, when did we all get so damn prissy?). A whiff of smoke in the open air is not going to give anyone's PFB cancer