Smoking outside in populated public places.

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It was a beautiful day as I sat outside my local coffee shop with my 2 children, drinking smoothies and soaking up the sunshine.
Then BOOM, the table next to us lights up a cigarette and it blows our way.

The day before we were lining the streets for a tractor run…. We had a front view and the kids are at the front. Then BOOM, a man behind us lights up just as it’s beginning and is breathing the smoke down on us.

Why oh why is smoking allowed outside, and not just in designated smoking areas, where they can all sit and smoke together. It happens us all the time.

Yes they’re entitled to do it, but is it right? Hell no.

AIBU?

Do you know how silly you sound?

I don't smoke, but I happily sat by a smoker outside a coffee shop this morning so I could enjoy the sunshine. It's a choice isn't it? If you want to sit outside you might smell some cigarette smoke. It was blowing away quickly enough and it didn't bother me.

Ahh ok

Good to know you'll allow your kids lungs to be filled with shit for fun, but not because a tiny bit of cigarette smoke is in the air behind them.

If only you all had the ability to walk away a bit?

Personally I'm really offended by the fact that a load of people got together to poison the general environment with greenhouse gases and CO as well as whatever is in that red diesel that makes it so smoky. It's completely out of the rest of the population's control but we'll have to breathe it in and suffer the global warming effects for years to come.

Tractor runs are a public health risk! Won't somebody think of the children?!

Check out the sexual offences act 2003. Sex in public is not a criminal offence. It’s not really the done thing naturally but you can get done for public indecency… a different offence. But I mean… it could be argued in court that it’s not illegal, because it’s not stipulated.

Maybe they could start with the proliferation of weed smokers that seem to popluate many town centres. It stinks a lot worse than normal fag smoke

This is the same silly 'hair splitting' argument as you letting your kids breath in diesel fumes, because you chose it for them, but cigarette smoke which is far less abundant is a problem because you didn't choose it 🙄😂

If you ask them they may not be aware it’s bothering you and would move away. We were sitting outside to eat recently and the table next to us lit up, I dint mind usually but the wind this day meant all the smoke blew straight over us continually. I spoke to
them and we agreed to swap tables. The smoke then blew the other way fromus. We got to eat, they got to increase their risk of several awful illnesses..win win. I did ask a guy in a bank cash line queue to put it out though as there was no way to move and at least six people were smoking his fag too. He seemed to unaware it was blowing over everyone. I think sometimes it’s unconscious and rather than be nasty you just ask politely if they could move somewhere else as their smoke is bothering you. The majority will do so. I did shout at a guy who threw his cigarette end on the ground inches from a bin. Asked him to pick it up, outside isn’t a bin and to be fair he went red and did pick it up and bin it.

Drives me nuts going into/coming out of supermarkets, the smokers literally outside the door. Worse were the groups outside A&E-it’s a non-smoking site!

I agree re the smell of people, it’s sad when the kids I teach absolutely stink of smoke because their parents obviously smoke in the house.

It's not a choice for people like me with asthma. Most smokers just don't care - it's antisocial

Completely agree!

I was in an and e after an asthma attack. After discharge I was waiting for my taxi and had about 10 people outside smoking. They don't give a shit

So don't sit there? It's not an obligation to.

Yanbu! It's disgusting and infuriating quit frankly. I used to smoke and now vape, I DONT smoke in crowded public places or anywhere near kids, not even my own. I'd never smoke on the local High Street or sat outside a cafe or on a beach, quite frankly I think its vile and selfish. As a mother there's nothing worse than them bring surrounded by second hand smoke and it absolutely stinks.

Smoking is rank.
It stinks.
Smokers stink.
Lightning up in busy areas is ridiculously selfish and anti-social.
There is plenty of help to stop smoking nowadays. 😬

I don’t necessarily disagree OP but I’m mainly here to read the ridiculous over the top comments about smokers and vapers. MN absolutely hates them more than rapists and murderers and it makes me laugh every time

No, it's entitled to think you own the outside seating and can blow foul smoke in a child's direction.

MN can't hate anyone - MN is a chat site. I'm with the MN members who hate smoking though. 🤢🤢🤢

As a mother there's nothing worse than them bring surrounded by second hand smoke and it absolutely stinks.

Oh I don't know, the thick, heavy diesel fumes from the front row of a tractor run comes pretty close.

If I want to be selfish have a smoke and I’m somewhere I can do so legally, I’ll be selfish have (a) smoke. End of.

There, fixed. 😬

Don't you think it's also quite selfish to expect to direct the perfectly legal behaviour of others, especially when those same others have already made concessions to you (by being outside)?

It's a word that's overused on MN, but it fits here - entitled.

...and that's the smoker's own fault.
Nice own goal.

You really don't know AIBU very well

How exactly? It wasn't smokers who lobbied to ban smoking indoors.

Meanwhile someone justifying smoking sounds......😵‍💫

Its reek, not wreak, I'd like to be too polite to tell you, but meh.