Grr Ashtrays outside supermarket doors!

Storck

I say ban smoking totally and put income tax up to cover the cost. :beer:

savingmummy

Becles wrote: »

It must vary from store to store. At ours there is no smoking under the canopy bit and around the taxi pick up by the front doors. There are no ash bins there and the staff have to go to a corner of the car park. It's not sheltered and I've seen them all huddled there puffing away on my way into store.

our Morrisons store is exactly the sale too!

I think the bins are helping to stop the ground butts but maybe they shouldnt be so near the doors, i assume it is because people drop them by the doors and then people walk them instore.

hoyles10

hermum wrote: »

Not all cancers are caused by smoking. As the amount of children suffering from it can testify. They haven't all been subjected to passive smoking, although most have had exhaust fumes at face level from birth while being pushed around in buggys.

I didn't say that all cancers were caused by smoking, mine isn't caused by smoking but I got to know quite a few people on the ward and about 70% of them were there with smoking related illness and most of them were still nipping out for a fag when they could.

I'm not an ex smoker who hates all smokers and think they're all evil, I still fancy a fag every now and again and I miss smoking but I don't want to give myself another reason to shuffle off this earth early.

Enfieldian

Could someone please tell me what brand of cigarettes produce this magical "cloud of smoke" that hovers around outside indefinitely?

My fags just produce smoke that goes straight up in the air and dissipates.......

bellrooster

Enfieldian wrote: »

Could someone please tell me what brand of cigarettes produce this magical "cloud of smoke" that hovers around outside indefinitely?

My fags just produce smoke that goes straight up in the air and dissipates.......

If you have to walk past a someone smoking, you get a lung full youself (unless you hold your breath ofcourse)! The smoke doesn't dissipate as soon as you've blown it out your mouth!

And this thread isn't about 'smoker bashing'! at the end of the day it's your choice.

It's just I need to walk through the door at the supermarket, I should be able to do that without holding my breath. I also, need to use the cash machine, and I should be able to do this without the offending smell.

marleyboy

bellrooster wrote: »

This is something that really annoys me! The supermarket in question is Asda, but I'm sure others do the same thing and that is to put bins with ashtrays on top right outside the entrance to the store! Why encourage people to smoke in the door ways forcing people who don't want to breath in these putrid fumes to have to!

I dont think this has much to do with encouraging smokers to use the entrance - I think its more a case of discouraging them to throw the cigarette ends onto the floor.

I dont think any store "encourages" smokers to use the entrance - unfortunately the limit of the law on smoking in public, reaches only as far as the entrance. Any point beyond that, if it is not "enclosed" or "sheltered", is out of the stores hands, or responsibility.

It would be like Mcdonalds asking a member of the public not to eat their fish n chips outside the window.

These issues only really became a problem AFTER the smoking laws were introduced. The higher the perks, the deeper the drawbacks .

frivolous_fay

At my local hospital, the bike shelter is where the smokers go. Nice.
So it's open, but there are so many butts it just reeks.

Hate when people smoke while at cashpoints too - it really lingers.

JodyBPM

bellrooster wrote: »

I bet I'm going to get some stick for saying it, but I think there should be seperate smoking and non smoking tables outside Pubs for outside summer drinking. .....

That seems fair enough, and in return, perhaps smokers would like separate smoking and non smoking tables INSIDE pubs for INSIDE winter drinking... Oh yes, we did have, and then all the non smokers complained about it!

Mupette

There are places that have smoking and non smoking tables.

Example, i am at Bristol Airport yesterday, whilst awaiting for someone i am collecting from Arrivals i go to the 'Smoking Area' designated for smokers, to find that there are smoking and non smoking tables, what is that about. It's a smoking area, why would a non smoker want to go to a smoking area for.... apart from complaining that is.

inca_2

I've only just quit but was never one to stand in a doorway smoking, I'd stand away from the door and wouldn't smoke in a bus queue for example. It really used to irritate me though that I'd be standing in a wide pedestrianised alley/street back to the wall so people have plenty of other room to walk past and avoid it they'd walk about an inch from my body, well if you do that when you can see someone is smoking it's your own fault really. As for people not smoking at pubs outside why should smokers go to the carpark? I don't ever see people requesting this in winter? It's legal to smoke outside so in summer you will get people sitting at a table with a drink and a cigarette, you don't get it indoors anymore (never bothered me anyway) so you have to accept there will be more of it outside. You can't have it every way.

What I imagine would be more annoying is the big group of people outside who have had too much and sit shouting and swearing and getting overly rowdy? plenty of that in the summer. While I'm on a roll with the rant why is it ok to insult or comment on someone minding their own business away from other people smoking a cigarette? If i saw an obese person eating a pasty it wouldn't be considered ok for me to say 'oi fatty put it down you'll give yourself a heart attack' would it?