why do people feel entiled to smoke where its banned?

[traciebanbanjo]

Happens all the time, people on private property where it's banned feel perfectly entitled to smoke because it's outside (and chuck the end on the ground). What goes through their head?

Piece that only works to an extent, when the weather warms up and non-smokers encroach upon the smoking areas and then have the nerve to sit there and cough/wave their hands in the most dramatic of fashions.

I gave up cigarettes a while back and vape now and funnily enough the reactions to that are even more extreme when quite frankly I have smelt people's perfume which is more offensive than my strawberry milk vape mist.

ah, the car analogy. proof if proof were needed that smoking addles the brain.

@m0therofdragons I don't smoke & have no big issue with people smoking outside but it takes a while to unclench walking into maternity & seeing mum to be standing outside stroking their bump with a stinking fag in their hand!!

I work at a hospital and was waiting for a guest to arrive in reception today. A patient came to the receptionist really upset because she has COPD and had had to walk through a cloud of smoke of people smoking at front of the hospital. It's banned on the grounds and that includes the car park across the road but as you reach the front door it's a council owned pathway then a crossing into the hospital. So many smokers stand either side of the crossing on the path where we cannot enforce anything and then drop their cigarette butts as they walk in so we actually pay somebody from nhs money to clear them up twice a day.

That makes me so sad, but not surprised at all. So many entrances are covered with smokers it's often impossible to go in without inhaling smoke. There's even separate areas at my local hospital and a clear yellow line and signs to say where to smoke and not smoke as to not cover the entrance. They just ignore it.

when the weather warms up and non-smokers encroach upon the smoking areas

Just because it's outside it doesnt make it a smoking area! It's been banned in children's play areas here, many think the ban doesn't apply to them.

Queenoftheblitz I'm not a fan of sanctimonious non-smokers either, but your post is a bit daft. Passive smoking of course affects animals in the same well-documented way as humans - why would it not? Your cats were lucky, that's it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41748090

Our hospital entrance is full of smokers, why they don't shuffle on a bit to the end of the building is beyond me.

Our Tesco used to like that too with their staff but I think they've been moved somewhere else.

Because they are lazy and selfish gin?

I presumed the cat post was a joke?! No one would be stupid enough to deny that smoking is harmful would they?