to get really annoyed at people who smoke in playgrounds?

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Why can't they wait until they leave? I just don't understand why you would ever light a cigarette in a childrens playground.
Am I being unreasonable?

oh and ds1 had a little stick the other day which he put in his mouth, I said 'don't eat it, love', he said 'I'm not eating it', I asked what he was doing and he said 'smoking'.

I hate it.

snap raven

even as a smoker I NEVER smoked around kids

Aside from anything else, I knew it was a bloody STUPID habit and didn't want to be responsible for anyone growing up thinking it was ok.

I don't feel for smokers if they are choosing to blow poisonous smoke over the rest of us but including babies and children, and people who do have life threatening reactions to it (my mum has been hospitalised twice following passive smoking)

Its just inconsiderate really. And rude. And smelly.

(disclaimer: I smoked for 2 years as a atudent, over 10 years ago now, so ds1 does not have it from me)

If a playground is designated no smoking then fair enough.

What I don't like is all those car drivers who pollute the atmosphere with their fumes, the exhaust pipes are all at baby/toddler in a buggy level.

Same goes for dog poo

No, but it might be killing you.

I don't get it. Why people defend smoking? Its an addiction, yes. A drug, a poisonous drug which costs individuals thousands of pounds, the NHS millions, the revenue creamed in by the Government from it (suppose it depends if you support the Government). These threads which always end up in an arguement about 'personal choice' which is bollocks. I fully support personal choice. So do crack addicts.

I completely understand why people start it, and why they do it. It is pleasurable. But there's no real arguement to do it or continue to do it knowing what we know. The facts speak for themselves.

I think people who smoke anywhere near children are irritating.

I smoked for many years, and never, ever smoked anywhere near my own children, or anyone else's.

Don't get me started on dog poo ...

Or McDonalds

Actually it was one of the reasons I gave up - well, getting pg was THE reason, but it'd been on my 'to do' list for a while - realising that I was being an inconsiderate arsehole.

Things like going out for a works meal with non-smoking colleagues & seeing them grimace when I came back in from having a cig outside...dh & I going to an arena gig, lighting up every time the steward moved away, then sulkily saying 'You're only picking on us because we're on the end of a row - go climb over 6 seats & tell them over there off!'

I to remember it. Smokers have no idea how it grosses people out.

YANBU. Horrid to have to stand around in a playground with half the parents smoking away, whilst standing next to or over young children playing. I'd love to see children's p;aygrounds as smoke free zones.

yes it is outside, but when I outside I refer to breathe in fresh air, not second hand tabacco smoke.

I remember when I had my first proper job, and everyone smoked at their desks

Doodle, nothing holy about it, I've just met a lot of selfish people who smoke. What's holy about saying I don't want you to blow smoke in my face and hair (and it makes me feel really sick when I'm pregnant), in my baby's face, dropping the cigarette ends on the ground where my child might pick them up and eat them.

And do we really have to have signs to tell people that it isn't really a great idea to smoke around children?

Smoking stinks, and doing it near children sets a bad example.

Surely an adult can work that out for themselves, without having to be informed by a council sign?

well exactly, foxy

smokers have a revolting, anti social addiction, personal choice is a bit irrelevant really, they are addicted to a life threatening drug.

I support nhs money for helping people to give up. Aside from thatm their cjhoice. The anti smoking measures are to protect non-smokers, not to nag smokers.

I don't think this gives them the right to limit other people's free choice by lighting up indiscriminately.

god imagine the response if someone posted aibu not to want heroin addicts shooting up in the playground.

yet heroin kills FAR fewer people than tobacco.

I was also shocked recently to see a group of local childminders, mostly smoking directly in front of the kids. I mean, literally directly above from babies strapped into buggies

I am in no way suggesting that most cms are doing this and I have a lot of respects for them generally but fgs . these are surely people who should no better.

(the cms were in the park, this is why it is relevant)

Just bloody gross.

I dont like smoking in playgrounds or anywhere near my dd, but iam a smoker myself, i only smoke outside.

But i really dont think smokers should be penalised so much, drinkers sre far worse imo!!!!

I am a smoker as well. I do not smoke in the house but my children do see me smoke and I am unsure of wanting to sneak around so they wouldn't see me to be honest.
(I think it might teach them to be sneaky.)

actually i respect that curry. In a weird way, cos I hate smoking!!
But I have a friend who smokes (not every day but pretty regularly) and pretends to her kids (age 14 downwards) that she is a non-smoker and that she disapproves of smoking. I think that's crap parenting.. the chances are they'll find out somehow (actually I think one of my kids may have told one of hers !!) and you're then teaching your kids that being dishonest and hypocritical is ok......

I am generally tolerant of people smoking in parks, etc, I was in a playground yesterday and it did seem to be the norm. Kids are off playing, not sitting next to smoker breathing it in, but what irked me yesterday was mother/grandmother lighting up in front of a poor toddler strapped in its buggy right in front of her, having no option but to breathe in the smoke.

I'm surprised, no......amazed at the responses here.

It's outside, FFS.

My DCs have to look at a lot of unsightly stuff; McDonalds, crocs etc, but hey....that's life.

I have a friend who does the same. She smokes outside but when the kids appear, she drops the fag or puts it behind her back and her dd and ds look so bewildered, they can sense she is doing something and don't know what (or prob do - kids aren't stupid)

I am a smoker, I would never smoke in my house, I don't actually smoke around DS anyway, but find it absurd that anyone shoud suggest that I should smoke in the house my child sleeps in so that your child does not have to be 'inflicted' by smoke.. OUTSIDE.

FWIW - I wouldn't smoke in a school playground, but it would not bother me that someone else did. I have smoked in public playparks before though.

I have smoked every single day for about 13 years (other than when I was pregnant) and its not that easy just to 'not bother' because some other people might not like it. FFS we have to go outside now, no exceptions. Now you want to confine us to our own houses? So basically, you are telling me to stop smoking? Thanks, but I shall decide that for myself.

DS is 8 and actually holds his breath if we walk past someone smoking, and he will close all the car windows if we happen to drive past a smoker as well!

Really cadelaide?? ... I agree that there's unsightly stuff we all have to look at (my neighbour across the road ain't great). But smoking is rather different, as it's a totally unecessary pollution of fresh air. If people want to smoke, fine, do it in their house. Not in public places.