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Original poster

To think smoking should be BANNED???

285 replies

Mum2OliverJames · 16/09/2008 17:27

Or it at least should be taken back into the pubs where it doesnt effect me, they cant all sit together in their deseise ridden smoke.

I am SOOO sick of walking behind someone who is smoking or walking through their putrid cloud of smoke, i hate it for my DS to, the smell makes me SICK, and i mean it actually makes me feel like i want to vomit!

Why cant smokers just realise how much they stink, you can smell a smoker a mile off.

I also hate how when someone speaks to you in the street, if they are smoking they will put their cigerette behind their back whilst talking to DS, like that stops him from breathing in you cancer fumes!!!

I think if someone is going to smoke they should at least do it where its not going to have an effect on anybody else (like in their own homes)

i dont think iabu, i think the smokers are v. much bu to expect everybody else to put up with their disgustingness - i think its v selfish.

OP posts:
Remotew · 16/09/2008 22:34

OK, good idea but don't expect us to bail you out when you get arrested for assault.

Original poster
Mum2OliverJames · 16/09/2008 22:35

sorry expat ill go sign up for one of those courses now

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Original poster
Mum2OliverJames · 16/09/2008 22:36

but thats not fair! they started it

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steviesgirl · 16/09/2008 22:42

Gosh OP, you obviously don't have anything else to worry about than stressing at every person you see with a ciggie in the street.

I don't condone smoking, but to be honest my life is so busy I can't say I even notice others who are smoking, and I couldn't really care less. It's up to them what they do. It's their life. I'm more concerned with where the next penny is coming from so I can feed my daughter tbh.

SummerC · 16/09/2008 22:44

Zzzzzzzzzzz.........

Remotew · 16/09/2008 22:49

We might start it but we are legal. Spraying someone is illegal in the UK, I think.

I used to carry a mace spray around with me in South Africa in case I got attacked. It was legal there.

matildax · 16/09/2008 22:55

m2oj.......... you have had your 15 minutes,and then some, and are quite frankly, misusing it. and not listening at all, except to your own annoying point of view.
like someone mentioned, why the feck post on the aibu board when you will not sway your opinion, even slightly.
sod this, im going for a tab!!!
my time wasted reading your thread is most definitely over. please get over yourself.

mayorquimby · 16/09/2008 23:02

i don't smoke and i think yabu and i have no problem with people smoking outside as it doesn't really affect anyone for more than 2 seconds.
i do however find over zealous pretentious mothers very very detrimental to my health and sanity. can we ban them please?

steviesgirl · 16/09/2008 23:06

PMSL mayorquimby! lol. Sounds like a good idea!

bellabelly · 16/09/2008 23:22

M2OJ - I am slightly starting to suspect that you are the same person as Cupsoftea who started the lunchboxes thread the other day...

Tiramissu · 16/09/2008 23:26

I 've got an idea: since you dislike so many things (smoking, drinking, driving etc) just stay home. And lock the doors and windows. That way no smell will come to you and your baby.
Sorry that life cant be tailored made to suit you.
precious people with precious babies should stay home.

PhilomenaAnthropic · 16/09/2008 23:49

Darling 'Oust' nshould be banned, or relegated to the use of common people and / or smokers. As you are clearly not the latter i shall assume you are the former. Golly gosh i sound like Monkeytrousers

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Mum2OliverJames · 17/09/2008 00:03

i dont use oust around the house but i can hardly plug a freshener up there backside can i?

although now you mention it it is tempting

bellabelly - am not cupoftea, dont even drink tea

i think i will stay in - i will wait until the world crumbles around us, step outside , and breathe in the fresh smoke free air Mmmmm

OP posts:
PhilomenaAnthropic · 17/09/2008 00:19

I am glad you affirmed my previous comments

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Mum2OliverJames · 17/09/2008 00:34

well i just wanted you to know that even though i am not 'posh' i am def not common.

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FAQ · 17/09/2008 00:57

how much do I spend on Cigarettes a week - approx £7 - and I smoke about 20 a day (though think it was more like 40 today - bad day).

I could spend it on a bottle of wine and a DVD to rent - but instead I spread it out

oh and to the OP - many roll-ups don't linger - in the same way as cigarettes do (something to do with all the chemicals in the fags I reckon) -

I choose roll-ups because

a) it's a hell of a lot cheaper
b) it's not full of all the extra crap they put in fags (which you can "taste" if you've smoked rollies for a while).

FAQ · 17/09/2008 00:59

oh - and btw - I'm on benefits........

OneBoyOneGirl · 17/09/2008 01:19

I am an Ex-Smoker and i think YABU.

TrotSlursky · 17/09/2008 01:33

yabu

obv

And rude.

Oh and apparantly stubborn. Gosh this hasn't gone well has it?

It is an imposition on your world to smell things you don't like. It isn't causing ypu or yours damage or at least certainy not as much as those cars queueing beside you on the road. (as described by you walking along street not passive smoking inside a house etc)

But you have brought benefits into it too which was not neccessary, why?

flourybaps · 17/09/2008 06:16

well smoking debate aside. You also dont like pubs, bars, noisey people talking loudly in towns and you wish to control how people spend their benefits.......gosh not really the live and let live sort are you.

ya still bu

2beornot2be · 17/09/2008 10:50

ethanchristopher I am glad I am not the only one that wants smoking back in clubs due to people not washing there stinking pitts :-/

I am a non smoker well I quit a week ago but I must say I love people that walk past with a fag as I try my best to inhale the fumes lol.

2beornot2be · 17/09/2008 10:53

M2OJ What do you like to do???

emmalou23 · 17/09/2008 10:59

OP, you need to step down from your pedestal! You're very self righteous!

thebecster · 17/09/2008 10:59

Erm... Must admit, would love smoking to be banned. Am asthmatic, so is DS, and cigarette smoke is one of the things guaranteed to cause an attack for both of us. I've nearly died of an asthma attack a few times before, and DS has been blue & floppy, which was terrifying. I have an inhaler of course, but when asthma is really bad my chest tightens up so much that I just can't get the damn stuff in. I couldn't go to pubs or restaurants before the smoking ban came in, and now I can go out for meals and sit and have a drink with DH, which I really enjoy. I've never had an attack from just walking behind someone who was smoking, so that doesn't bother me. But if I walk into a room, and there's smoke in it, I know that I need to walk straight back out, or risk being taken out of it in an ambulance. I appreciate freedom of choice, but don't I have as much right to breathe as someone else has a right to smoke?

DaphneMoon · 17/09/2008 11:05

Oh come on OP you can't have it all ways. I am an ex smoker and I think YABU. You will want smokers going round ringing bells next shouting unclean unclean! FGS your DC's will not die from inhaling fag smoke outside, we have a thread about this the other day. There are toxins all over the place. It is a free country you know, get off your soapbox you perfect little person you.