Grr Ashtrays outside supermarket doors!

amersall

kissingthepink wrote: »

It sounds like you need to get a life!

hear hear :D hate whingers

jd87

No comments about volcanoes?

amersall

i dont see what the problem is, i cannot believe that the supermarkets entrances are full all the time with smokers. i have never walked into asda and have been engulfed in a dense cloud of smoke, its not as though the ashtrays are inside the entrance, if they were i could understand the complaint. and i thought this was a free country, live and let live is my motto.

System

bellrooster wrote: »

Not at all, the disabled person doesn't need to smoke just before they go into the supermarket do they? or they could put it out in the car? granted, not all cars have ashtrays, but you can buy portable ones.

Are you allowed to smoke in motability cars?

Amistoso_2

bellrooster wrote: »

This whole thread has gone bonkers

Ashtrays smell, and they're unpleasant to be near and more often than not people will stand near then to finish what they're smoking and when they're at supermarket entrances, you have to walk past the smoke to get inside - and therein lies the problem.

All that's needed is a little consideration to the people who don't want to breath in smoke, just a short walk away from the entrance is all that's needed, it would take a matter of moments.

I don't have a problem taking a wide berth of a smoker so I can avoid the smoke, in a public space or open area, but in situations where you can't avoid the smoke I think it's unfair. (and I have no intentions of not shopping at my local supermarket).

pitty your poor husband, that's all I can say!!!!!!!

amersall

http://www.jokesduniya.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/smokers-zone.jpg

bellrooster

To the people who say I should 'get a life' .. you might want to look at your own - if wasting your time and effort reading someones elses thread, then leaving a completely unhelpful and insulting post is a good way to spend yours.

And about the assumption that I am a 'whinger' and a 'do gooder, I can assure you I am neither.

But I am a Mother, who will protect her child from whatever I feel is a danger to her, including second hand smoke. I'm also an Athsmatic, and yes, my asthma is exacerbated by smoke.

Personally I feel that 99% of people who realised that they're causing problems smoking in the entrances would happily and considerately move away from the doors. I don't think that the replies here reflect what people would do in the real world.

which brings me to the conclusion that it YOU are the wingers, not me.

Oh and by the way, my OH would like to assure everyone that he is Very very happy with me.

spring_chicken

can't say I have ever noticed the ashtrays outside a store, but I do think that people have gone well overboard with moaning about smokers, think of all the car fumes in the car park, the gas guzzlers etc, I bet the ones moaning about the smokers drive to the supermarket in a car.

Rolandtheroadie

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

Are you allowed to smoke in motability cars?

LMAO, is that a serious question?

Harry_Flashman

I have to say that I've never noticed hordes of smokers hanging around outside a supermarket entrance. The staff will have their own area to smoke somewhere out of the way I'm sure (just about every workplace gets their employees out of the way for a smoke).

The reason there are ashtrays near the entrance is quite simple.

Smokers (and I do this) may well be finishing a ciggie as they get to the shop, they'll walk across the carpark finishing it off and then get rid of it before entering (please note : I have no problem at all with a smoking ban in a shop). If there wasn't an ashtray, the floor would be littered with butts (that's human nature, it won't change, live with it) so really, in environmental terms, an ashtray at the entrance is a very positive thing.