to expect people to have the desency not to light up and start smoking whilst sitting next to a toddler at a bus stop?

[juicychops]

God these people piss me off!!!!!!!!!1

2 old women today came and sat next to me and ds at the bus stop and started smoking!! i looked at them in disgrace and moved and they looked at eachother and started laughing! i was just about to open my mouth and say something when the bus turned up.

Its disgusting

oh well I stand corrected, carry on

colditz - thats why i stopped. dd1 said to me one day "mummy whats that?" when i lit up a fag

i was so ashamed

colditz alcohol kills more people in the UK every year than smoking, do you mind them seeing people drinking??

i dont mind my children seeing other people smoking, its more the pollution of their lungs than anything else

I have to admit I get annoyed when people smoke near me atm (heavily pg), when I'm waiting for the train. There aren't many seats on the platform and I so need to sit down atm! So I've little choice but to sit down and breath in the fumes.

I wouldn't ask someone to move, because to be fair, they are allowed. But it does annoy me at the same time!

Roll on July!

i think a lot of stations are banning it now which is good news. and i know Birmingham new street has been non smoking for years.

actually mosschops, alcohol abuse kills people. Alcohol use is considered safe. But there is no such thing as safe cigarette use.

And I do mind my children seeing people drink, in a way. I won't take them to pubs.

Oh get a grip.
Soon they'll be arresting people at the first sight of a fag packet.

I was heartened this morning to be greeted by a road workman with a big gut,reading Thec Sun,guzzling a coke and sucking on a fag.

Good to see that the PC police have not infiltrated every sector.

moondog is that you?

Indeedy
Even i have occasional lapses

I like the way that people say "they have to be able to smoke somewhere" as if smoking is a human right or something.

well it's not illegal and maybe it is a human right

Well I for one think that the smoking ban is one step too far.

If I as a non smoker have the right to go and sit happily and eat a meal whilst not breathing in someone elses smoke surely a smoker has the right to go and do the same whilst having a ciggie.

Yes there should be no smoking in public places, but there should also be smoking pubs/restaurants set up so that part of society isn't excluded from doing something just because they are addicted to a drug that they were told was good for them not so long ago.

A little whiff of smoke while standing at a bus stop?

I think you're being unreasonable.

Chimneys send smoke into the air, people lighting bonfires in their garden smoke gets everywhere, summer barbecues, farmers burning fields.

Low level smoke I can live with

har! I also think flutterdave is bein gunreasonable

hurrah for scotland for it's stance on getting fags banned from public areas and also helping mums to bf stress free in public

It was inconsiderate of them juicychops. I would have been tempted to hawk up a phelgmy (?sp) glob of mucus and released it near their feet

bloody non- smokers. i love smoking me. ha ha stick that in yer pipes and smoke it

I was going to start a similar thread this morning. Every morning we all wait with our children outside the school gates until they are opened. It isn't a particularly big area, and they is always a small group of mums who stand together and have a cigarette. So they are outside I know but surrounded by a lot of children aged 5-7, could they not wait 5 mins until they have dropped the children off and then light up?. This morning I snapped (have been sick all week and not in the best of moods) and asked them if they wouldn't mind moving away from the children if they were going to smoke. They grudgingly did so, and later I got several congratulatory comments from other mums who hadn't felt able to say anything. It has raised me up in the popularity stakes, bearing in mind we only moved to the area 6 weeks ago

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BTW before anyone jumps on me I was a smoker for a long time until I fell pregnant with dd.

No opinion on the smoking - but it was unreasonable of them to laugh at you for taking your child away from the smoke.

Gosh I am Miss Prissy Drawers about health I think, but I wouldn't care about someone smoking outdoors next to my child.

i am a smoker, dont smoke around the kids though, we have a seperate room to smoke in at home, with the windows always open!! When i turn up at the bus stop to collect ds2 from the school bus i will always have one before he turns up, i dont smoke near any of the mums with lo or babies, in fact i will put out my ciggie if a mother with babe in arms comes over to talk to me.
I have to say that i am glad as a smoker not to be living in the uk any more, and i find some of the outcry over this to be out of all proportion.

Bus stop or wherever, it is very inconsiderate to light up near to a toddler. It isn't even so much the fact they might inhale the smoke (albeit that this is more readily dispersed in the open air) but the fact that a cigarette held by an adult down by their side is very often at the same height as a toddler's face!

I have often walked past people who seem completely unaware (or who don't care) that the burning tip of their fag is inches from my child. In my experience, it's not uncommon for an adult to bump into a child (admittedly not deliberately) simply because they're less immediately visible ...... my daughter once had someone's ash drop off all over her coat ... luckily it wasn't a burning ember.

have you heard about the travellin gfolk who burn things for days when someone dies?

Bloody health infringement