Smoking table, he woudn't allow anyone to sit at his table if they smoked...Was he right to refuse them? An interesting one this as the role is not usually played this way around concerning us Smokers!!
After you answer, please state smoker or not Cheers Peeps!
2006-12-30 03:47:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
I'm a smoker. Smoke-permitted cafes are few and far between since the new bylaws.
If that klunk wanted didn't want smokers, he should go to the smoke-free places, and leave us to light up in peace.
2006-12-30 04:00:37 · answer #1 · answered by Mary W 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely right, there should be no "right" to smoke, even if its a smoking table in a smoking pub. Perhaps the no-smoking area was tucked up at the back by the bins, or was full, as it always is hence why he would suffer the stench of the smoking areas.
Cant wait for the no smoking in any public places law. Smokers are so selfish. Iv seen people smoke in no-smoking areas, because the smoking areas were full. Total selfishness.
oh and im not a smoker, as you may have guessed.
2007-01-01 10:01:08 · answer #2 · answered by Grem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The guy was rude and foolish. If one goes to a smoking cafe one should expect to be surrounded by smokers. If one sits at a smoking table, one has chosen to sit somewhere designated for the activity. I'm not sure what made him think he could chase people away. May I go to a golf course and demand others not golf.
On a practical level, if there are people smoking in a closed environment like a cafe, and one wants to sit at your table, is the amount of extra smoke your going to inhale from him being 4 ft. closer really going to be a detriment to your health? It's not chlorine gas for goodness sake. My understanding is even for smokers, for smoke to have a negative effect there has to be months or years of exposure. One meal's not going to hurt you with days of recovery.
I breath with assistance when I sleep, and have since I was 17, and I have never started coughing the way some of these melodramatic weirdos do when someone lights a cigerette in the room.
This anti-smoking nonsense is just caused by wave after wave of wild propaganda on the puddy like minds of the public, combined witht he desire for more tax revenue.
Non-Smoker and have never smoked
2006-12-30 10:55:59 · answer #3 · answered by 0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was definitely wrong. If he's a non-smoker, he shouldn't have been there to begin with, his stupidity, and once he got there, he should've just gone with the flow and let other people sit at the table if they wanted to do so. It's not his personal table, and if the smoke bothered him, then either move to a non-smoking area or leave.
I'm a non-smoker, btw.
2006-12-30 04:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by letsgetagripalready 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If he's at the table first, I'd say he can decide whether he wants to allow smokers to sit down at his table.
Having said that, if 90% of the people were really smoking, then the guy was being a bit silly.
2006-12-30 03:50:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'd say he was being a prize prat why go into the smoking section it is also a public place I'd just ignore him and do what i wanted anyway it would bother him more that i wasn't moving my *** than it would bother me him moaning and i would just laugh at his ridiculous out burst in a public place
it isn't his cafe sod him my other half doesn't smoke but he doesn't sit complaining about it
I'm a smoker
2007-01-01 01:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by Jo C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure what a "smoking cafe" is. If it is a cafe that caters to smokers, and it is known as a *smokers* cafe then I would say that any reasonable person expects their to be smokers at any/every table.
If you mean that it is simply a cafe that does not ban smokers, then yes, he is justified by requesting that he not be joined by any smokers at his table.
Former smoker.
2006-12-30 03:53:00 · answer #7 · answered by AlwaysOverPack 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It makes me wonder what people have against smokers ( pretty soon your going to have to go to the moon to be able to smoke in peace). It was a smoking cafe he wasn't right to go in and you think he would have noticed the huge clouds of smoke billowing out of the doors.
2006-12-31 07:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by Lexy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gut is an idiot, any self respecting non smoker would never be caught in a smoking cafe.
He only went there to cause trouble and should have been asked to leave.
Smoker
2006-12-30 05:24:27 · answer #9 · answered by eyes_of_iceblue 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If the cafe ha a no-smoking area then he should have sat there... but since you said that 90% of the tables were smoking then what the heck is he doing there.... When I go to a resto that says no smoking I usually transfer to their smoking area if they have one.
Smoker
2006-12-30 03:57:25 · answer #10 · answered by Terry Chan 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋