To be fed up of some smokers' inconsiderate behaviour

[Wantcleanair]

Why do some insist on smoking right outside the doorway of supermarkets, restaurants etc. so that you have no way of avoiding walking through the disgusting second hand smoke when walking past them? Our local supermarket has a designated smoking area away from the doorway but it appears only the staff use it. Are people so desperate for a cigarette that they cannot walk a few metres to keep entrance and exit ways clear?

@enchantedsquirrelwood

Since smoking was banned indoors, life has been much more pleasant, and outside smoking doesn't bother me. Because it is outside. If people were blocking the entrances to supermarkets because they were smoking, I'd be more bothered by the fact they are in the way. In fact just coming back to edit this and say chuggers are more annoying and harassing.

I totally agree with the improvement following the indoor smoking ban. Unfortunately, those smoking right in doorways may be outside but the smoke frequently permeates into the premises (as I found on a recent restaurant visit). People also still have to walk through their smoke so outside or not, the smoke is there! I guess we agree to differ as it clearly depends upon how often you are subjected to this and to what degree you are happy about breathing in someone else's second hand smoke. I, along with many others, would prefer not to but have little or no choice when we need to enter the places they insist on smoking right outside of. As for chuggers, annoying I guess, but they are not being inconsiderate; they are just trying to do their jobs.

13% of the population (18+) smoke. How much of a problem is this to you really?

I have to say it’s not a problem I’ve particularly noticed by me and I frequent various socioeconomic areas and a variety of venues (including hospitals).

It's enough of a problem for me (and, it would appear, many others) to be fed up of it!
Because you don't notice it as a problem where you visit, does not mean it can't exist as a problem elsewhere or for others. My local supermarket is dreadful for it! Maybe as a smoker/vaper it doesn't register as much with you as a problem in the way it does a non smoker or someone who finds the smoke an irritant.
I would also have no problem with the smokers/vapers if they moved well away from the doorways and used the smoking areas specifically constructed for their use (at some company's expense).

Just a vaper now (have been for a good seven years)and trust me I notice the smell of cigarettes - my neurons are still hardwired to it. I tend to vape in smoking areas when a place has them and am quite often on my own or with one other person. They’re nothing like they were a decade ago.

I just think that when 87% of the population don’t smoke you must be awfully unlucky to be in so many situations for it to be a massive concern.

@Cornettoninja

I have never said that it was a massive concern.....just fed up of it. Out of 333 votes, 71% (236 people) agree with me.
Glad to read that you are one of the more responsible vapers though who don't inflict your habit on those who do not want it.

We used to sit in cinemas full of smoke, go on planes full of smoke, drive for hours in cars full of smoke.

We used to do all sorts of things that were never OK - send children down mines and up chimneys for example. It doesn't mean that these practices were ever OK.

I remember sitting in smoky cinemas and public transport and hated it.

Justifying imposing your cigarette smoke by comparing it with traffic fumes is beside the point.

I would like to thank all the considerate smokers who have posted on here who posess the social awareness to understand that not everyone likes second hand cigarette smoke.

Well said!