To think smoking is out of order...

[likeacrow]

In a kids' play park.

Adults sat on a bench in the kids' play area, a few metres from kids playing, chain smoking rollies.
I know that realistically it probably won't cause any damage to passing kids, being outside in the open air, but it's just not cool and not okay in my opinion.

Plus I'm pretty sure they just left their tab ends lying on the ground. Nobs.

Oh for chrissake

I take it the park is in the OPEN AIR ??

Some of you wouldn't have coped in the 70s and 80s I swear !

Bloody precious people .

I suppose we should not allow diesel cars to drive past our children either? 🤔

Send in the SAS

Pretty sure all my local parks have no smoking signs on the gates YANBU isn’t just the smoke it’s discarded cigarettes on the ground too - there’s just no need to do it there.

I agree with you likea - especially if they left dropped butts on the ground. A children's playground isn't the place to smoke.

It's not really the smoke it's the bad example. Our local park doesn't allow it in the playground.

Some of us didn’t cope very well in the 70s and 80s. It was a nightmare!

Actually I agree. I don't think its OK to smoke in a kids play area - ours has no smoking signs up too.

And Leesa I did indeed survive the 70s and 80s. Some things were better (kids playing out) but travelling in the boot of an estate car without a seatbelt (obviously), no seatbelts in the back if cars, no child car seats, smoking inside restaurants and pubs and nightclubs and train stations (Kings cross fire...) and on airplanes - not better.

And agree with the pp that said its more that its a bad example.

LTB and call 101

There is a sign up in the playground area of a park near me,saying that smoking is prohibited in the children's play area. I must admit that I was a little surprised at this,what with being in the open air. I don't honestly think there is any harm in smoking outdoors in a kids' playground.

YANBU. It’s disgusting. And I say that as a recently ex smoker. A kids playground isn’t the time nor the place!

I saw a woman stood at the bottom of the slide with a fag in hand, the way the wind was blowing meant every kid before hers had to slide down through the smoke. I couldn’t believe no other parent dared to say anything (I didn’t either as I didn’t have a child going through the smoke).

Can you have no smoking signs up outside? Is that a thing?

Yes it's out of order. They could use some self restraint and put the dc first.
Just for a few moments. Or step outside and smoke. It lingers in the air in the the heat as well. V v selfish.

Of course seasaw. You can have no smoking outside within the grounds of a hospital or inside a pub beer garden. There being sky above your head instead of a roof doesn’t change whether someone owns the land or attraction and whether they can implement no smoking rules.

The only smokers I've seen in our local playground seem compelled to sit on the swings or lean against the frame the swings are in, smoking, instead of using the bench, totally oblivious to children who'd like to use them. Always the same group of extended family members with 4 miners accompanying one toddler. They don't drop butts at least.

I think it is minging and hugely inappropriate.

Of course it's not on

I Have some lovely "Mum friends" who smoke and they do it well away from kids play area if we are at the park.

miners should be smokers, pretty sure they aren't miners ...

It’s more harmful inside a car, for pollution than sat in a park next to someone smoking

I'm surprised they need a sign in a play ground. It's pretty bloody obvious you don't smoke in playground

All the kids play areas round here have no smoking signs. I think it's out of order to smoke in them in any event.

YANBU. Smoking is absolutely vile and should be banned everywhere except the home where the person who wants to partake in the filthy habit lives.