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smoke gets up my nose - a lot

by alecweston ^Pro @ 2008-09-19 – 10:55:44

This absurd pretense that the pavement is not a public space - and therefore you are allowed to smoke as much as you like the faces of fellow pedestrians - needs to change, and fast.

But most smokers seem to think it's somewhere to celebrate the Magna-Carta rights of an Englishman to help everyone share the joys of passive smoking. There doesn't even appear to be a shred of a publicity campaign to suggest civility or sensitivity in the matter. I tell ya - there's no joy from a stranger's smoke in your eyes.

Just now I stupidly nearly got run over trying to avoid a guys waltz-walking from side to side of a broad pavement. Offices back on to the road I live - and there's a pub at either end. A smoker's paradise. Not mine.

No, I am not being "politically correct" I just want to heard all smokers up, seal them all in the Dome 02, and turn the oxygen off for a while.
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- soyunperdedor ^Pro
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- 2008-09-19 @ 11:02:53
It's a tricky one. I believe smoking is a choice that they have made which the government has allowed and facilitated for many many years, and people should be allowed to do it without having to stand outside in the rain like dogs or on busy roads - I know of someone who was hit by a car because a bouncer wouldnt let him stand under a bit of shelter near a club, and he had to go into the road! - but I'm also with you on the pavement being a public space, really, which contradicts the whole point of the smoking ban. I notice the smoke from one cigarette wafting in my face in the street far more than I ever did in a smoky pub, and it's disgusting, and makes me cough. So, I cough on the person doing it, and when I get my inhalers next week, I'll be taking a highly visual puff on that too.

I am aware that I haven't made a point, really...
- - alecweston ^Pro
  - 2008-09-19 @ 12:42:04
  Yes you have. The present law is a mess, and few people seem to be facing up to this fact. In your Comment, I think you do.
  - - soyunperdedor ^Pro
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    - 2008-09-19 @ 12:44:17
    Awesome.
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- timekillingkid
- 2008-09-19 @ 13:29:47
Miserable bastard.
- - alecweston ^Pro
  - 2008-09-19 @ 22:36:44
  Once in a while, I have to make sure you are still there.
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- SeasideMan ^Pro
- 2008-09-19 @ 15:47:22
I'll make the same point I always make on this sort of issue. There are rights to and rights from, and the balance between the two is tricky. Smokers should be allowed to kill themselves with tar if they like, but they shouldn't be allowed to take others along with them. If that means they have to stand in the rain, so be it. Separate rooms would be preferable, but if the building-owners don't want to provide them because of cost, that's fine.

Tom.
- - alecweston ^Pro
  - 2008-09-19 @ 16:29:54
  It's not all fine if they stand in or out of the rain blowing smoke in the face of passers by, and smokers should have no right to do this.
  - - SeasideMan ^Pro
    - 2008-09-19 @ 16:39:13
    If they are deliberately blowing smoke into your face, that's probably an offence anyway. If you observe a smoker and choose to walk close to them outdoors, that's your look-out. The government isn't responsible for the route you choose to walk, nor should they be.
    
    All the vehicle pollution you breathe in 24 hours a day is probably far more damaging to you than the occasional single breath where a wisp of exhaled smoke gets into the top of your lungs anyway.
    
    Tom.
    - - alecweston ^Pro
      - 2008-09-19 @ 18:13:52
      No, no, no. Anyone should be able to walk along a pavement without crossing to the other side to avoid smoke in the face. I chose not to go to smokey pub, I agreed to be exiled to the back of restaurants who had no smoking areas. Why on earth, should I now be unwilling subject to more not less tobacco smoke?
      
      There appears to be no etiquette in the matter, no public pressure at all to keep smoke away from non smokers.
      
      The present policy doesn't work, and your on-the-one-side-and-then-on-the-other is essentiallly an aquiescence to the status quo.
      - SeasideMan ^Pro
        
        2008-09-19 @ 18:57:44
        
        Your wish for greater regulation on this is a nanny-state-step too far for me. Plus, the police have enough to do already without arresting people for smoking on the street.
        
        If the government had any balls they'd make smoking illegal but that's never going to happen as it's too much of a tax-maker. While it remains legal, further regulation would just be two-faced.
        
        Tom.
        
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