To tell these smokers on the next sunbed to not smoke

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Have been relaxing on my sunbed ( on holiday abroad). Couple just arrived. Sat down on next sunbed and have been chain smoking since. Im asthmatic- do I tell them? Or do I move? Why do they think this is ok when all the public health warnings tell them it’s not?

TheStoic: Although as a smoker, she’s clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Really?? What an awful attitude you have.

Presumably you hold the same horrid opinions about overweight people eating fatty chips and burgers, parents woth noisy children feeding them even more sugar and crap?

Although as a smoker, she’s clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Well thats a GF comment, and I day that as a non smoker.

*say

Ah I love new year smoking threads, everyone full of pent up aggression from enforced fun over Christmas and no outlet for it. Can't top it

Roll on summer

Sadly the world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around dirty bastard smokers. They're enabled thanks to it being legal to bugger up other people's health including that of their own kids. We cannot offend them and their civil liberties.

I have always thought since the ban was first discussed that maybe some pubs should be allowed to remain as smoking pubs. This would then take away the need for smoking in pub gardens where food was being served.

Gosh - 14.9% of UK adults smoke- that’s hardly no one!!

Those numbers show there are larger numbers of smokers than vegans for example. So just playing devils advocate nobody would expect places not to cater for vegans which is a lifestyle choice albeit one that doesn't impact on anyone else, so why shouldn't smokers be catered for. I say that as a non smoker.

I agree

I smoke. But on holiday, I get up off of my sun bed (regardless of whether or not smoking is banned), and go for a cig well away from other people.

It's just manners.

Which is exactly why I said there should be some places that do cater for smokers. Then they have somewhere to go. And last time I checked smoking was not illegal sex offences are.

I have always thought since the ban was first discussed that maybe some pubs should be allowed to remain as smoking pubs. This would then take away the need for smoking in pub gardens where food was being served.

That sounds like a good idea in theory. But one of the main reasons for the smoking ban being introduced was so that people could work in a smoke-free environment to protect their health. The bar staff are stuck there for the whole of their shift, how is that fair?

I have already said I am a non smoker. The point is that smoking is not illegal and is not likely to be for some considerable time if at all. Therefore if there was some pubs and it would only be a small minority that said we are a smoking pub it would free up other pubs to be able to ban smoking in their gardens and outside dining areas (obviously outside on the street would be trickier) if staff knew before taking on the job that it was a smoking pub then they have the choice of working there or not.

Yanbu. Unfortunately many of those who smoke in communal areas do not seem to comprehend that smoke travels to us non smokers!! Whilst holidaying in Greece in the summer, the evening entertainment was outside by the pool. This meant every night a bit of a lottery as to where we sat and if there were smokers next to us. One evening we (myself, dh, dc) sat further outside of the area so at least there was more fresh air. Loved and behold a smoker FROM ANOTHER TABLE moved from her own family to a table next to us to smoke her cigarette

I am rarely speechless but I couldn't believe the rudeness and selfish behaviour of this woman!

Only on MN would somebody claim that over 10% of the population counts as "almost no one".

*Roll on summer

I love how some posters think that smokers are some marginalised group, blameless victims, rather than people forcing a rank smelly habit on others

Smoking will die out in the next few decades, at least in the west. I already live in a smoke free apartment building in the USA (2000 people). I’ve been in The Universal resort in Florida for nearly a week and I have not seen or smelt a single smoker. The hotel is smoke free, I think, and there are a couple of well separated smoking areas in the parks.

1 no I do not think it is great but it is a legal activity and as such people have the right to make that choice for themselves and therefore as with any minority group they have the right to be accomodated

2 positive

3 probably but I also think that price hikes and better health information has played a significant role .