Smoking in a queue / at a bus stop

[niadainud]

I appreciate there aren't many places where you can have a cigarette indoors these days, but when people are queueing and can't get away - not without losing their place, anyway - it's really inconsiderate of people to smoke.

(Ideally I'd like phone conversations on loud speaker to be banned as well, but I'm probably expecting too much.)

AIBU to think this is highly antisocial?

And illegal drug use is immoral..

I'm a smoker and like a pp I'm constantly trying to quit.
YANBU, I wouldn't smoke in a queue, I don't smoke anywhere near other people if I can help it.
If I'm out and need a smoke I step to a side, or if I'm walking I make sure no-one is behind me and having my smoke blowing over them.
It'd make my life much easier if I could give up

Something can be illegal without being immoral. Are protesters necessarily immoral? If someone steals something to feed a starving child, are they immoral?

So Anglo

I agree

Agree with you on the smoking, phone calls on loudspeaker and will add watching videos etc on a mobile that emits that tinny mobile phone sound in public

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A good few years ago I wax in a queue at an ATM to get cash and the guy in front lit up a cigarette and I got caught in a lovely cloud of his second hand stinking smoke. I actually thought about taking it from him and chucking it away! I did ask him to put it out and to be fair he looked surprised and did.

i grew up with two chain smoking parents and despise it.

It is fecking rude and the smokers who do this are selfish feckers!

As an ex smoker for a long time now, I will admit to still enjoying a whiff of someone else’s fag.

I don’t smoke, but I can’t get exercised about someone lighting up in a queue outdoors where I only have to smell it for about three minutes. I don’t love it, but I can tolerate it for a little while. Frankly, I prefer it to some of the other ‘antisocial’ behaviours I see fairly regularly. Therefore, I think you’re being unreasonable: it’s not a big deal compared with other annoying behaviours. We have to put up with other people, and some (fewer and fewer) are smokers.

Well to be fair my AIBU wasn't making a comparison with other anti-social behaviour.

Also some queues are considerably longer than three minutes. I was queueing for a table in a restaurant the other day and had to wait for nearly half an hour.

YANBU. Highly antisocial and very cunty to be honest

I guess I’m inclined to pick my battles (re other antisocial behaviours).

i agree that some queues are longer than others… I think I was trying to make the point that the average cigarette takes about three minutes to smoke, but you might have been unlucky with multiple smokers!

Because queues usually are for going into somewhere which since smoking is banned everywhere you know its your last chance for potentially hours to have a fag/vape. This was never an issue before the smoking ban.

Yeah, that's true I guess.

It’s not the smell for me, it’s that the second-hand smoke can trigger an asthma attack. If it’s just someone walking down a street, or a designated smoking area, I can move or avoid that (and I won’t sit in a cafe / restaurant garden that allows smoking, because it’s happened too many times), but it is selfish to smoke in a queue where people can’t avoid the smoke other than stepping away themselves.

I hate it and would whip the selfish bastards soundly.

Frankly, that is not my problem.

You not liking it is not mine either

It's rude. I would offer to keep their place and encourage them to smoke away from others.

They're addicts. Addicts will make any excuse, do anything at all to minimise and normalise their addiction. Addicts are the most selfish and anti social people in the world.

I’m an ‘occasional smoker’ (read: trying to stop but occasionally relapses). If I’m smoking outside, eg waiting on a bus, I move away from the queue. If I’m in my back garden I move as far away from neighbours windows. I try to be as considerate as possible.

I think a lot of smokers are selfish and don't care.

When my mum eventually gave up she would complain that on holiday they had sat in the no smoking area but the smoking area was just the other side of the room.

I reminded her that she had, on many occasions, moved the plate I was eating from to put her ash tray down.

These days, smokers are really social lepers and still some insist on doing it - the brass neck they must have when they know most of society just loathes their addiction. Yep, selfish is definitely part of it.