How to stop people smoking outside a school.

DavidF

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Do not Drink alcohol in this area - Fairly often see "drinkers" in said area as opposed to before the signs went up
Don not Smoke on hospital grounds - Staff all over the entrance and surrounding streets smoking, Patients and visitors smoking merrily away as before the signs went up

Do we see a pattern here I wonder. Sometimes the fewer the "rules" the better things run.
If we wanted to ban tobacco we could "easily" but we cant do without the tax revenue so that is that. By easily I mean attack the smoking age - min age 2016 - 16, min age 2017 - 17...and so on. You could do the same with alcohol too but for the same reasons as tobacco it will never happen. Unfortunately this is just one of those things we have to live with.

Mr.Generous

get the kids to do some research into smoking and the health consequences so the little darlings nag nag nag. Get the kids to calculate the cost of smoking over say a two year period and compare it to the price of a holiday in Florida. Get the hospital to supply some lungs from a 20 a day B&H man and hang them on the railings with suitable signage?

In all my jobs from student days to date I would say there is a definite correlation between smoking and - well - I don't know how to describe it, social standing, career achievements, status, achievements in life?

In most places a far higher proportion of cleaners smoke than managers, It somehow feels like the less money you have the more you're prepared to waste it on fags. I bet proportionally more people on benefits smoke than higher rate taxpayers. Just a thought. Don't mean to upset any of you thicko smelly smokers IF you don't mind me saying so ...

Smartsaver7

Before I retired I worked at a large London hospital who banned staff smoking outside any entrance, staff had to walk around the corner to smoke. I suppose the school could impose that on new staff as a condition of employment not sure what it could do re parents on a public street, not much unless legislation brought in.
I have never smoked and still have to run the gauntlet of smokers when I enter buildings or try and have a meal in the beer garden of a pub, I just have to put up with it.

Legislating seldom works just look at how many drivers still smoke in company vehicles, I suspect same with adults smoking in cars with kids, total waste of time. As a previous poster has said smokers are addicts , if the health of their children won't get them to stop, nothing will.

ferry

Got to feel quite sorry for these smokers really.
Can't go twenty odd minutes without a fag while picking your kids up from school?

Smartsaver7

ferry wrote: »

Got to feel quite sorry for these smokers really.
Can't go twenty odd minutes without a fag while picking your kids up from school?

Yep I know someone who has spent out on those daft e-cigarette vapour machines , but still has a crafty fag it's all about having the will and self control to stop , sadly many can't stop taking the drug , no matter what.
Maybe if they renamed them cancer sticks it would stop people asking for them , big display in shops of "cancer sticks" or "Sticks that make you stink" with a free bag of clothes pegs for your families nose :T

Happier_Me

This thread had me thinking about the school my children go to. It's in an affluent village but 50% of the children come from further afield (less affluent villages). I have been taking my children to and from school twice a week for the past seven years and I can honestly say I have not noticed one parent or teacher smoking near the school.

No signs requesting you don't smoke, but an unwritten rule that smoking around the children isn't the done thing to do. It's a shame all adults don't feel the same, after all it's hardly the best example to be setting.

Employees should have a designated smoking area out of sight of the children and parents.

Not seen any onesies either come to think it!