Smokers Beware

Errata

Extract from Housing Association letter:

"As you will be aware, smoking, and in particular passive smoking, causes concerns to those who do not smoke. Therefore xxxxx asks that you consider this by refraining from smoking whilst an xxxxx employee is in your home."

Nice to see the HA is encouraging tenants to save money by not smoking in its employees presence! Has the world gone mad?

Oldernotwiser

For those healthcare and social workers that are community based, other people's homes are their places of work. They have a right to have their health protected from passive smoking, just the same as those who work in offices, shops and factories!

I really don't think that you've given this point enough (any?) thought.

slates

I am a HA resident and a smoker. If I was to have a HA employee in my home, i would not mind at all not smoking whilst they are in my house. If i was that desperate i would go outside. I would just see it as good manners by not smoking.

Elle00

I'm a smoker and think that's a perfectly reasonable and polite request. I can't see the problem?

newMS

i am a smoker......... i am also do a job which involves doing home visits and we always ask clients not to smoke whilst we visit, if they came to our office they would be in a smoke free environment so why not the other way round ?..... we have always done this and our clients understand why we do ask ..

TheWaltons_3

I'm also a smoker - I consider it good manners. I would not smoke when any official person visits me, likewise, I would not expect someone down at the council to light up in my company.

Smoking is MY choice - if I want to inhale polluted toxins then this is my business, but I shouldn't force it on others.

bright_side

TheWaltons wrote: »

I'm also a smoker - I consider it good manners. I would not smoke when any official person visits me, likewise, I would not expect someone down at the council to light up in my company.

Smoking is MY choice - if I want to inhale polluted toxins then this is my business, but I shouldn't force it on others.

You took the words out of my mouth I don't smoke in my house when I have ANY visitors unless they are smokers themselves. I've been a non-smoker and I know it's not nice to have the stench of someone elses cigarettes around me when I'm choosing not to smoke myself

newleaf

I have never smoked in my life, but as a community health worker I get exposed to an awful lot of other peoples smoke. My clothes smell dreadful by the end of a working day. I have recently been instructed by my employer (NHS Trust) to ask people to refrain from smoking whilst I am present in their homes. It goes down very badly with some people unfortunately, and there are some homes I visit where I wouldn't even bother asking.

andipandi_2

give everything up including sex and become a buddhist monk

Timmne

andipandi wrote: »

give everything up including sex and become a buddhist monk

Or just have a tantrum every time anyone dares protect their health!

You should probably give up sex, just in case you should reproduce. That would be another unreasonable and ignorant person we'd have to share a country with.

Oldernotwiser

andipandi wrote: »

give everything up including sex and become a buddhist monk

My husband has severe emphysema and if you could see the way he suffers and the way in which it's wrecked our lives, you might not take the subject so lightly.