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To tell these smokers on the next sunbed to not smoke

155 replies

Loveweekends10 · 02/01/2019 14:24

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?

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MarilynSlumroe · 03/01/2019 13:43

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AnneElliott · 03/01/2019 13:53

I think they are rude if you were there first. Different of course if you chose to sit next to them.

I would just move though. I also have asthma and agree it's awful sitting anywhere near a smoker.

sweeneytoddsrazor · 03/01/2019 13:55

The reason I suggested it is twofold. Partly because there are many pubs that have closed down due to the smoking ban and partly because as there are plenty of people who are continuing to smoke giving them a small number of enclosed spaces to smoke in may reduce the amount of outside smoking that impinges on others

DontCallMeCharlotte · 03/01/2019 15:10

The thing that annoyed me about the smoking ban in pubs in particular, was not that I can't smoke in the pub anymore (it genuinely doesn't bother me not to), but that all the bleeding hearts who didn't go to the pub because of the bad, bad smokers STILL DON'T GO TO THE BLOODY PUB!!!

In theory, the smoking ban could have been the saviour of the pub, not the death knell.

GreenMeerkat · 03/01/2019 15:18

This is something that annoys me on holiday. Most of the time if you're sat by a pool it's warm and sunny with little breeze which means the smoke tends to linger for longer. This annoyed me as a smoker as I would be very aware that I was smoking around non-smokers and was not comfortable to do so. And as a now non-smoker for the same reasons as OP (minus the asthma).

It would be a good idea for holiday resorts to make smoking areas and non smoking areas around the poolside. Doubt it would ever happen though.

Vixxxy · 03/01/2019 15:20

I would not ask them to move, I would move myself if it bothered me. And I have done, numerous times when people have sat near me with stinky food, or screaming kids and such. Easy enough to get myself away from stuff that annoys me.

HalloumiGus · 03/01/2019 15:23

Are they German? Twice this happened to us on 2 different holidays abroad - and both times they were very tanned Germans :o Smoked from the moment they sat down to the moment they left. Never seen anyone smoke so much and I used to smoke a lot myself.

AngeloMysterioso · 03/01/2019 17:31

I love it when people compare cigarette smoke to car fumes. It’s such a stupid argument.

Cars and motor transport provide a highly useful function in that they get people from A to B much faster than any transport that doesn’t burn fuel.

Cigarettes provide no function whatsoever.

ForalltheSaints · 03/01/2019 17:34

In the open air, whilst I do not smoke, I would not object. Indoors a completely different matter.

It may be that the people whom the OP is unhappy about come from a country where indoor smoking is permitted in more places than the UK, but that should make no difference.

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 03/01/2019 18:05

MarilynSlumroe thats your argument Hmm

I think you need to consider your definition of "no one"

0% is "no one" , 15% is just under 7.3 million people hardly no one

HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend · 03/01/2019 18:11

Smoking is fatal. It kills people. This statement is inaccurate! smoking itself isn't fatal, however smoking can cause fatal diseases, and those diseases be fatal.

However smoking itself isn't fatal,

I should also state I am a non smoker, never even tried it!

AGHHHH · 03/01/2019 18:12

Semantics...

EdWinchester · 03/01/2019 18:16

Can’t believe the hotel allows it around a swimming pool. Yuck.

I would move whilst glaring pointedly. Bloody hate smoking.

FuckingYuleLog · 03/01/2019 18:19

Public transport (trains for eg) are often much faster than cars and better for the environment. Also people often drive journeys that are easily walkable - putting their wants ahead of the health of others. The analogy is spot on. See how you get on asking people if they could maybe walk the 10 minute school run as traffic fumes are bad for your asthma.
The op can move if the smoke is bad for her. Whatever your personal view on smoking the other family are sat smoking in an area where they are allowed to smoke.

nicoala1 · 03/01/2019 20:22

This is why I will never sit around a communal pool.

I will always be Ab Fab and have my own with a villa with private pool.

I refuse to mix with those who smoke outdoors and do not care about me at all. Dear Lord what are they thinking?

I am precious.

And that my friends was as lighthearted as I can be about this! I am obviously having a giggle.

gamerchick · 03/01/2019 20:34

Cigarettes provide no function whatsoever

Apart from the millions into the treasury.

SouthernComforts · 03/01/2019 20:39

Oh I've not had a fag for 3 years but this thread makes me want to slap on some Hawaiian tropic and chain smoke 10 Marlboro light.

Thurmanmurman · 03/01/2019 20:56

How on earth did some of you cope before the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants?

LoniceraJaponica · 03/01/2019 21:41

"How on earth did some of you cope before the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants?"

I very rarely went out, or ate out early. I always wore my oldest clothes to pubs - nothing nice because they would just end up stinking of smoke.

MarilynSlumroe · 03/01/2019 22:14

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shash1982 · 03/01/2019 22:23

I can understand a lot of posters points but the nastiness, generalisation and name calling on this thread makes it difficult to feel sympathetic.

I say this a non smoker btw.

OkPedro · 04/01/2019 00:59

Oh come on lonicera I don't think you believe that yourself. Unless you weren't a pub/club type? obviously you wouldn't have been in those places in the first place so on the odd occasion you'd be out then yes it would have been awful

Vixxxy · 04/01/2019 02:12

Can’t believe the hotel allows it around a swimming pool. Yuck.

I genuinely cannot think of even one hotel I have stayed in ever that did not allow smoking round the pool come to think of it. With the exception of hotels with only indoor pools of course.

User758172 · 04/01/2019 02:25

Mmmmm fags, fags, lovely fags.

79andnotout · 04/01/2019 09:18

I lived in a pub as my mother ran one. It really was vile stinking of smoke 24/7 as a kid. My hair, my clothes, my bedding at night. It is one of the worst smells in the world. I'm so happy it's fading in society.

The UK is much nicer now! Germany has a lot of catching up to do. So many taxis stink of smoke and people still smoke in restaurants. It makes me retch when I'm there on business.