Smokers Beware

Volcano

the prison is classed as the inmates home and therefore they prisoners could smoke if they wanted

Not quite. Cells will be designated smoking or no smoking and prisoners will be allocated to whichever cell is applicable. Shared areas indoors will be no smoking.

I'd like to see them stop the patients on Psychiatric units from smoking....

This will be the case from July 1st next year for all psychiatric units, though as newleaf has said, some may choose to do it before then.

nats3006

i smoke but will only smoke outside, no matter what the weather is like, i know a bit hypocritical but i dont like the musty smell and you cant see the telly properly with all the clouds!! plus i have 2 children so wouldnt smoke around them and no i didnt smoke whilst pregnant if anyone wants to say anything about that point!!!

nats3006

Katie~baby wrote: »

My nan smokes around my dd even though i have asked her not to. I remember once when my dd was 3 weeks old i left her in the car with my nan whilst i popped into the shop, came back to find my nan puffing away with all the windows closed and my 3 week old in the back! I told my grandad and he went mad!!

My mum started smoking around my dd when she was about 2, her reasoning, that it didnt matter now she was 2 it was only when she was a baby!!! Hence why we rarely visit!

I think smoking around people you dont know or have come to your house is rude! I know some say that they can do what they like in their own home but i think its common courtesy to not smoke.

If i went into someones house on business and they smoked i would leave. Im an ex smoker myself and i didnt realise how much it smelt...

:T :T :T

I still smoke myself but no way do i smoke in the car or anything when any kids are there, regardless of the age! and i ask other people not to either!

Zziggi

Errata wrote: »

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?

I don't smoke and have never smoked. OH is the same. I can't stand the kids going into places where there are smokers. In fact if people choose to smoke in a particular areas, then I choose not to go there.

HOWEVER, if someone is coming to YOUR home then i don't think they can tell you what to do. It may be good manners not to smoke in their precence, but if i were a smoker and i got a letter like that, then I'd be less than chuffed. How dare they tell you what you can/can't do when they come into your home. If they are so against you smoking in their precence then rearrange the venue.

It'd be the fact they think they can tell you what you can/can't do in your own home that'd get me riled.

Katie~baby

My step daughter always has a cough and her mum couldnt shift it, when having a conversation with my step daughter one day she mentioned that her mum and step dad smoke in the car but have the window open a small bit!!! Theres the reason the coughs still there then!!! Things have always been fraught with the mother and we felt if we broached this subject there would be uproar. So i told my step daughter that at her age she had choices and next time she was in the car when they smoked she should ask them nicely to put them out, as it was there choice to smoke but not hers! I said if that failed start coughing loudly! LOL

TheWaltons_3

newleaf wrote: »

That is the plan from 1st of July in our Trust. Not quite sure how well it will work, but the ward manager is quite determined to enforce it.

Hope they've got plenty of Risperidone...

TheWaltons_3

Zziggi wrote: »

I don't smoke and have never smoked. OH is the same. I can't stand the kids going into places where there are smokers. In fact if people choose to smoke in a particular areas, then I choose not to go there.

HOWEVER, if someone is coming to YOUR home then i don't think they can tell you what to do. It may be good manners not to smoke in their precence, but if i were a smoker and i got a letter like that, then I'd be less than chuffed. How dare they tell you what you can/can't do when they come into your home. If they are so against you smoking in their precence then rearrange the venue.

It'd be the fact they think they can tell you what you can/can't do in your own home that'd get me riled.

Passive smoking causing Cancer. Fact. Why should somebody be affected by this just from doing their job?

I remember working in a nursing home some years back. A lady of 60 was dying of Lung Cancer. She had never smoked in her life, never drank... was a keen walker.. lived her life healthily. People around her smoked. Is it fair that she was dying of a disease inflicted on her by others?

I asked her what her illness was, as she was very mobile and needed no care - she told me it was Lung Cancer. She also told me that she wished she'd drank, smoked and lived the life of riley because she may aswell have... as the disease she was dying from is one that can be caused from smoking.

I think it is a very good idea that people have to refrain from smoking when Council personnel are to visit their property - if they can't be reasonable, then !!!!!! them. I wouldn't jump to their beck and call and put myself out for them, if they couldn't even put their fag out for a visit.

This is coming from a smoker.

RichyRich

But the lady's lung cancer wasn't necessarily caused by passive smoke. It's a big jump to say "passive smoking can cause cancer" to "this lady's disease was caused by passive smoking" and one no doubt the medics at the hospital would be unable to prove.

I understand the point about staff having the right to work without threat of disease, but if the staff were that bothered, could they not ask the people they visited to go down to the Housing Association offices to conduct their business, rather than do a home visit? Nobody would complain about not being allowed to smoke then.

I can't wait while the smoking ban comes in. Then everyone will pick another minority group to pick on, most of whom evangelated about the smoking ban but won't like their particular liberty being eroded!

chrisewey76

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.

my thoughts exactly.
i also smoke AND when the nice chap from sky was here, i actually asked about this. he said he wasnt sure on the guidelines on this and said he didnt mind if we were to smoke. we didnt out of respect for him as a none smoker!
my partner disagrees with the new rules but i totally agree.
i hated it when you were in a resturant and someone lit up whilst you were eating! and pubs were always too smokey