think people shouldn't smoke at school gates?

[WelliesandWine88]

It smells awful and pretty rubbish for others to have to breathe it whilst waiting whilst waiting to pick up their kids.
Is it really that hard to just wait till you are elsewhere?

I know what an addition js and this is one I had for years - there is never a need to stand right on the gates and smoke where all the kids are coming and going is there?

This is actually my main concern! It's incredibly selfish to just put your own wants above the health of others, especially in a setting where there are obviously children!
Aside from the fact that the smell is disgusting, you are putting other children's health at risk!

People shouldn’t smoke anywhere where you have no choice to be in close proximity to them

Only reason I joined The PTA is so I could get away with this sort of thing

It was very common where I grew up for parents (mine included) to be smoking at pickup and dropoff. I don’t see it so much where I live now.

I have some sympathy for smokers, because I know it’s an addiction - but I think it’s not unreasonable to expect them to not do it in an environment with loads of children around.

Some people are addicted to cocaine or alcohol but you don’t see anyone enjoying a crafty line off someone’s bonnet or swigging from a can of Special Brew at drop off do you.

Certainly be a bit more fun that!

Same but you've only got to have one on the way - on a side street - in a quiet spot before you get there

Yes it’s an addiction. But waiting 10 minutes isn’t sending you into opioid cold turkey. Whilst the ‘god I need a fag’ is strong, it IS resistible. And it would go if they stopped caving into that urge at that time.

stopped my 20 plus a day habit in 2012. 1 heart attack in at age 51. Stop it, it will kill you.

Selfish, bad mannered and rough. Yet another example of why I can’t comprehend and sometimes can’t stand fellow humans.

Whoever said they aren’t breaking the law, well I think it should be illegal to smoke on school grounds or near the entrance.

It’s so damaging.

My DC aren’t school age yet but I have a breathing condition which gets much worse when I’m around second hand smoke. Right now it’s fine, apart from passing someone in the high street maybe I don’t encounter any. I didn’t realise that idiots were smoking at school pick up.

I absolutely hate people who do this.
Why do they have the right to negativity impact my health with secondhand smoke just because they want to do it?! It should be illegal to smoke anywhere in public.
I'd probably get my husband to call me and ask him to remind me to email the school because the chimney wants sweeping. Would hopefully embarrass them- so much cheek to do it right by school gates. Other parents can't escape them and not good for the children either. No sense of shame at all.

okay?

YANBU. No one should
bw smoking around kids.

My kids are late teens and I never ever saw anyone smoking anywhere near the vicinity of the school, it just wasn't the done thing, you would have stuck out like a sore thumb. And I'm pretty sure there were some smokers around but they were obviously able to manage 30 minutes without one, addiction or not. How on earth do people get anything done otherwise.

Yanbu. I really wish parents wouldn't do this.

At the primary school on my road there's a group of staff - teachers and TAs - who huddle outside the school gates to smoke every break time. It's just a bit grim.

How do people manage to hold down jobs if the addition is THAT bad. I mean, you can't nip off at work after 10 mins for a fag.

That sounds rough. Luckily I have never seen a parent smoking or vaping anywhere near the school gates where I live.

I know a couple of the parents have the odd cigarette once their children are tucked up in bed but never around their children.

Would you be that relaxed if it was a drug addict shooting up or necking vodka at the gates?

I was going to ask them to move as my asthmatic toddler was beside them, but then noticed they had a newborn in a pram so decided they wouldn't give a toss.Struggled to hide my disgust however.

School are fond of emailing about behaviour at gates during dropoff/pickup, so may ask them to address this. The layout means it's hard to just 'stand elsewhere ' because a road runs directly alongside and to be frank, I shouldn't have to go further back in the queue because of someone else's disgusting habit.

Even with Addiction you can wait 5 minutes, or have a smoke on the way to school instead of expecting people who don't have this filthy habit to move or inhale second hand smoke.

School would send a generic message asking parents not to smoke at the gates if have thought if you ask