I wish you could sue smokers!

RadoJo

ladypinkof66 wrote: »

I work in an open plan office and several of our staff go outside to have what they call a fag break - they have to blick out i hasten to add yet go out on the hour every hour. I have never smoked and absolutely hate the smell and dont want to be any where near anyone smoking.

My point however is 1 of our Managers who regularly walks up and down our office and other office staff who sit near me, stink of a smelly ashtray. Their clothes stink there hair stinks and overall it is very unpleasant. It gets so bad that I can come home from work and I smell of smoke. I think it is disgusting that we have to put up with this, can these people not actually smell themselves, god knows what their breath smells like.

So smokers can't smoke inside, and you want to ban them from smoking outside or at home as well in case they come near you? I think you are being a little unreasonable in your desire to limit other people's freedoms.

Alikay

foxy-roxy wrote: »

most of the people i know that have never smoked hate the fact that smoking is banned in pubs because when every one goes outside they have to stay inside looking after drinks and coats etc :rotfl:

I agree! There always seems to be a nice sense of camaraderie amongst the smokers huddled under the gazebo outside our local between the rounds on quiz night! It's us non-smokers who have to go up to the bar to get the drinks now :rolleyes: and as a never-smoker I can now notice a kind of sour, stale smell in most pubs that must've previously been masked by smoke :rotfl:

KILL_BILL

if your standing somehwhere - like at a bus stop and people turn and blow smoke in your face - spit a nice green gob at their feet.
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when they express their disgust then retort -" dont like my gob then fck off "

avinabacca

lepetit wrote: »

Hi,
A major vent from me, I am an ex smoker, gave up in June 2006 and I am so glad that all the new laws have come in but I don't think it goes far enough.
I am totally fed up of walking along and some smoker standing there having a cig then blowing the smoke right into my face as I pass them or am stuck walking behind or they are walking towards me, why should I have smoke blown towards me or even in my direction to have to inhale?!!??
I choose not to smoke, they choose to smoke so I don't think I should be forced to!

Grrrr :mad:

Well why don't you go inside then, and enjoy all that lovely clean, smoke-free, fresh air that "all the new laws" have brought about.

Go on - oh, and be sure to "choose not to" benefit from any of the tax monies that tobacco sales bring into the Treasury, too.

(For information, I, too, am an ex-smoker - it's just that I've a sense of fair play and tolerance, have the ability to look at things from both sides of the argument, and am not a complete nob.)

hoyles10

avinabacca wrote: »

(For information, I, too, am an ex-smoker - it's just that I've a sense of fair play and tolerance, have the ability to look at things from both sides of the argument, and am not a complete nob.)

hahahahahaha :rotfl: :rotfl:

janninew

avinabacca wrote: »

Well why don't you go inside then, and enjoy all that lovely clean, smoke-free, fresh air that "all the new laws" have brought about.

Go on - oh, and be sure to "choose not to" benefit from any of the tax monies that tobacco sales bring into the Treasury, too.

(For information, I, too, am an ex-smoker - it's just that I've a sense of fair play and tolerance, have the ability to look at things from both sides of the argument, and am not a complete nob.)

This comment made me laugh - you say you look at things from both side and have a sense of tolerance, then insult the OP for having an opinion! Calling somebody a 'nob' is not showing tolerance just because they have a different view to you.

wannabepennypincher

avinabacca wrote: »

Well why don't you go inside then, and enjoy all that lovely clean, smoke-free, fresh air that "all the new laws" have brought about.

Go on - oh, and be sure to "choose not to" benefit from any of the tax monies that tobacco sales bring into the Treasury, too.

(For information, I, too, am an ex-smoker - it's just that I've a sense of fair play and tolerance, have the ability to look at things from both sides of the argument, and am not a complete nob.)

Yes! We pay £4.45 tax on a pack of 20 which means one person smoking 20 a day pays £31.15 a week in tax and £1619.80 a year.

Everywhere there is people whose bad habits are going to be burden on the NHS but at least my habit goes a hell of a way towards funding it. It just so happens that the smokers are always the first to get picked on because we smell

BFG_2

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

How is spraying someone with a foul smelling colour the same as breathing out (foul smelling) smoke?

Some people are such !!!!s :rolleyes:

That's the whole point....it IS exactly the same......

Tobacco smoke [direct from cigs not just smoker breathing out] is foul smelling, and taints and stains your clothes....just like the spray.

Don't you see the beautiful logic..."You're spreading your smell onto me and my clothes, I'm just doing the same to you" [goes the argument].

Personally I love it.

The discomfort many people feel with this approach is probably to do with 'intent'; the 'offence' caused by smokers is a by-product of their smoking whereas the spray has no other raison d'etre - it is specifically intended to cause 'offence'

Similar example.....

A friend of mine noticed a neighbour [about 10 doors away on the street] letting their large dog have a 'comfort break' [no 2] in the back lane right outside my friends back gate. Person didn't 'scoop' but merely walked off.

Said same neighbour found the next week that a carrier bags worth of dog mess [collected from local park] had been dumped in several plops on their front door step and pathway.

Sometimes direct action seems sensible and just....

98jdougl

I am a smoker but like to think I ma a considerate one- I smoke i nthe designated smoke areas in clubs- dont tend to smoke much in pubs. Smoke in my house and occassionally outside- if however I see a child or a pregnant woman coming towards me I either hold the cigarette as far from them as possible or put it out. What does irritate me is people that smoke while wioth their babies in either their arms or pushchairs.
I never dispose of cigarettes anywhere but into bins- I carry an empty box in my bag and put butts in there if there isn't a bin nearby and when in my house I empty my ashtray into a nappy bag before putting out into the bin.

I generally don't smoke around non-smokers if out with them in an outdoor place etc.

avinabacca

Here's something worth thinking about.

If smoking related diseases currently cost the NHS some £5bn per annum, but taxes on tobacco products brought in around £8bn per annum in revenue in 2006 (and that's not factoring in three years of tax increases), we can see that smoking provides a net financial benefit to the UK of something in the region of £3bn per annum.

Even taking into account the c.£340m cost of cleaning up after smokers, there's still around a £2.6bn net benefit in the pot.

So who should be suing whom?