People smoking outside in public

[Mimicat44]

I had to go into town today for an appointment (normally try to avoid it at this time of year) with dd in her buggy. Even though it was only a ten minute walk from where we parked, we had to walk through/around four separate groups of people smoking. No way to avoid breathing in the smoke. I don't think I'm being particularly PFB as it would have pissed me off if I'd been alone but it was infuriating thinking of dd having to breathe it. At one point we got stuck walking behind someone who was smoking with no way to overtake. AIBU to wish that they would ban smoking in the street/outside public spaces? Why does their right to smoke trump our right to not breathe poisoned air? If they want to carry on, fine, they can stink up their own houses, tar up their own lungs and clean up their own fag butts!

[BorderTerrierControl]

As DH says, as least they'll be dead soon

Well, ain't your DH a prize dick. I don't smoke, but my parents and brothers do. Nice to know your DH is happily waiting for their death because occasionally, now and then, he might have to be near them and they're a bit smelly.

I'm eagerly awaiting the 'it's awful, but one must tolerate it for now, because smokers tend to be poor folks. Which is true enough. But equally true is that the biggest whiners tend to be terribly delicate middle-class folks who clutch their pearls whilst melting at the idea of being exposed to a faint whiff of fag smoke... But who wouldn't balk at a nice fire going in the living room or doing the school run in a 4x4. Where do you lot even come from? Do we have a mini-Stepford somewhere in the UK that spits you lot out?

I'll be sure to tell my mechanic on Monday that much as I'm grateful for his clever £10 welding job that'll save me scrapping my old car, I can't accept his work because he smokes rollies and it's a grave social problem on a par with pollution in Chengdu. Or not. Since we work on the same industrial estate (what with me being a rare, non-smoking 'poor person') and despite sharing many a tea break his smoke has yet to render me bed ridden.

Honestly, unless you have terrible asthma or such, quit fucking whining on about fag smoke. Just walk past it like every other fucking grown up. The plague of passive aggressive hand-waving and snide comments on beer gardens in the summer is far worse than the fag smoke. Shut up. It's fucking embarrassingly pathetic. I'm embarrassed for you. It's just a bit of smoke. It's less than my fucking open fire kicks out into the living room all winter. Jesus fucking Christ.

"I'm a spiteful, bitter fucker, who can I pull down? Well, it's not entirely fashionable to hate on those fat bastards anymore, and to be fair, I down far too much wine so drinking is out... Can't go on race or religion... I know! I'll rant about how dirty and stupid smokers are! That'll make me feel better about myself!"

[EverythingEverywhere1234]

BroderTerrier 👌🏻

[Badcat666]

As a fellow non smoker... I think I love you Border

[PigletWasPoohsFriend]

As DH says, as least they'll be dead soon.

Well your DH sounds like a complete prat.

HTH.

[gamerchick]

Have one of mine gamer, in years past it would be embassy.......now cheap rothmans

Heh I did that, dropped down a couple of brands the more they went up before I thought fuckit

I'd kill for a regal king sized about now!

[NotLadyPrickshit]

Gamer you'd need to take out a mortgage for a regal king size these days

[LuluLovesFruitcakes]

Oh please. I'm a non-smoker and I think YABU.

They can't smoke in cars if they've got kids, they can't smoke in pubs, or any public buildings. They can't even smoke on train station platforms or bus shelters where I live...maybe we should just send them all to the moon to appease you?

Do you hate that candyfloss-smelling cloud that e-cigs give aswell?

[BorderTerrierControl]

Everything I wish I knew what an 'OK' hand and a funny bandage picture meant but I don't

Badcat Well I love you you too. We should go have a pint outside, in the smoker's corner, where it's all sociable and chatty. It'll be fine. I have A&E on speed-dial just in case, and can get hold of black market contraband like lighters, so we can start conversations with the 'others' with their really incomprehensible habit.

[WeDoNotSow]

I don't get the e-cig bans? I thought it was just water vapour?

[gamerchick]

Gamer you'd need to take out a mortgage for a regal king size these days

I know they were sadly relegated to going on holiday fuck it smokes.

I remember when they were 73p for 10

[EverythingEverywhere1234]

BorderControl in this situation, it means you couldn't have got it more right imo!!

[EllaHen]

Your car fumes hurt babies lungs far, far more than people's cigarette's op. In fact, every car journey you make is the equivalent of several thousand smoked cigarettes.

You are the worst type of hypocrite - an ignorant one.

I say all of this as a car owning non-smoker.

[Badcat666]

Border I'll have a lager and lime and I'll bring the smelling salts in case someone accidentally walks past us all and gets an attack of the vapours.

[Gowgirl]

Embassy no 1 -4.80

[gamerchick]

Sadly smoking no longer does it for me. I use the sprays, they give a much better hit than a smoke.

Still go out with the smokers though, much better conversation

[BusyBeez99]

When they make it illegal to smoke I will stop. Until then I can't smoke in pubs anymore so I smoke outside

Deal with it

[WeDoNotSow]

Normally you have to wait until summer to get a good smoking thread.

Beer garden wars. Brilliant stuff.

[supermoon100]

Border, you sound pretty stressed, maybe you need to take up smoking!

[BorderTerrierControl]

Everything That is so bizarre and yet so... Delightful. I have no idea what plasters have to do with being right but I now want to stick them everywhere

Badcat Lager and lime it is! I'll throw in some Fishermans Friend mints that've been lingering in my coat pocket for years a bit and between the two of us we have a pretty good SOS Emergency Second Hand Smoke kit capable of reviving even the most sullen of sinuses.

[BorderTerrierControl]

supermoon I'm tempted, just to piss off other people. Not 'cause I'm stressed and lashing out, you understand. I'm just fucking contrary.

I'm actually in a fine mood. A good rant on the interwebs does that, I find.

[TiggyD]

It's the people who read the Daily Fail in the street that I hate. Anybody could walk past and see a headline, even children. Think of the terrible cost of passive bigotry to children.

[Shakey15000]

I also remember ten fags costing around 70p

But the cringe trophy goes to when I moved to London (in the days when one could smoke in pubs, when pubs were vibrant, when pubs were......plentiful) and I got my fags out. They were Berkley Red. And pronounced "cleaners fags" I'd like to say I defended the poor Berkleys accompanied by a hair flick and a devil-my-care attitude. But I was younger and eager to fit in. Thus I never bought them again and switched to eye wateringly expensive Marlborough Reds which received a much better reception

[BantyCustards]

[elodie2000]

Do you drink OP? Isn't that a pointless activity too?

[bloodyteenagers]

YNBU smokers are disgusting and our children (or us!) should t have to see it or smell it or put up with the litter

Same can be said about dogs. We don't need to see dogs shitting on pavements. We shouldn't have to put up with the smell the exudes from some of their arses. We certainly shouldn't have to put up with playing dodge the dog shit as we walk.
Hardly ever see cigarette ends when out and about.

There's lots of things that we do that annoy others. Thankfully we live in a society that allows us to make our own choices. If you don't want to live with others and their pollution, take your pollutant car and live on a deserted island.