Smokers - would you take notice of these?

Question

Outside the entrance to a local bus station is a sign saying strictly no smoking in this area which means up to about 20 feet outside in the open air.

Also at my local hospital you cannot smoke anywhere in the grounds. I'm all for smoking bans within the hospital but they can go to hell if they think I'm stopping smoking in the open air and if I've nowhere outside to smoke if I'm in hospital.

Anti smoking Nazis are trying to push the law further than it is at the moment.

Has anyone got any other tales of these fascists?

That makes me mad Mush, that is just using power over you for its own sake because you work for them

Answer 1

O K, so you may think that it has gone too far but the facts are that people smoking outside the entrance to a Hospital means that for me to go inside I would have to walk through a haze of horrible smelling smoke, even now if I am walking along the pathway at our local shops there is always someone in front of me smoking leaving their smoke for me to walk through, they should have public cubicles for smokers to use and I as a lifelong sufferer of other people smoking can at long last be totally free of this foul smelling stench being inflicted on me, smokers have been smoking on buses, in cinemas, telephone booths, at work, in restaurants and cafe`s and any where that they wanted to for all of my 59 years without any consideration for me, the non smoker, at last it is my turn to have my freedom to air without smoke, I am over the moon about it, many people have given up smoking because of the ban, I really do wish them a longer healthier life than they would have had if they still smoked, I wonder how many lives have been saved by this law, too late to have saved my parents who both died from smoke related illnesses. Give up now, save yourself and your family the suffering that you are probably heading for, this law is the best thing to have happened to Great Britain and its people.
Chris.

Answer 2

Okay u want honesty so PLEASE dont get mad at me!!!! My hubby just had surgery like two weeks ago so I spent 12 hrs a day at the hospital with him and yes I did go outside- very close to the entrance and smoked. But not right in front of the door. I would go to the side of the building and yes there were signs that said not on the property BUT i did anyway! Sorry! But Im like you- Im in the open air- outside anywhere else- its not bothering anyone sooooo why take away MY rights? Now if they try to say I cant smoke in my house- or they outlaw cigarettes all together- Ill be buying them from a man named Leroy on the street corner! Like smoking sections and non smoking in a restaraunt- there r still some! The cut off table that is right next to the smoking- ivw had people grunt about smoke like that but hey Im in my little section and they gave me the ashtray sooooooo YOU move!

Answer 3

I observe some of these silly signs, just because I don't like getting shouted at. I agree, if you're outside what is the difference, especially when cars are nearby. I'm waiting on a ban on me smoking in my flat, I'll not be paying any attention to that.

Answer 4

I work in a care home and we're not allowed outside for a smoke during working hours. Up until the ban we could but not even the residents can smoke now ... one lady moved out because of it.

I restarted smoking four days after the ban, everyone thinks I'm daft.

Answer 5

This is because of "Sod's Law" - the name for the old and famous axiom"Anything that can go wrong, will"."Toast will always land butter side down" is often given as an example of Sod's Law in action. The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an "unlucky sod"; a term used to describe someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person.

Answer 6

It's all getting to be a proper pain in the backside. I will smoke in the open air if I choose.

Answer 7

Here in Scotland we are not supposed to smoke for 2hrs before having council workmen in our house!!!! YEAH as if I bought the house with my money I own it and say who and who doesnt get in it and what goes on in it so did I go with this no smoking thing "HELL NO WAY" I smoked double just to make a point and I told the work men you want to smoke go ahead, Im not meant to smoke on the property at work but I do it .............................

Answer 8

i once heard a story about how in one of the northwest USA states that they can't smoke within 20 feet of a sidewalk... which means if they want to smoke on a city street, they have to stand on the median...

don't know if it's true...

Answer 9

I do not smoke, however, I think the adds are going too far. Did you know that if someone quit smoking and died 5 years later of (say for instance) falling off a step, the smokers STILL count that as dying of smoking?

Answer 10

Letter to one of the free papers yesterday saying people shouldn't smoke at bus stops!! FCOL - where the heck are we supposed to go now???