Smoking in garden

scd3scd4

CarbonImage wrote: »

This thread derailed exactly as expected :T

Of course it's anyone's right to do whatever they want. It's considerate to take notice of others though.

I'd say smoking is one of those things (as demonstrated in this thread) that many people feel strongly about. So you may want to consider altering your habit slightly for the sake of those around you.

Or not, but just remember if your neighbour starts listening to house music at 2am/having lots of late night garden parties/dumping litter on the pavement outside your house, you don't have a leg to stand on.

No really the same.............some of the above have systems to deal with them.


Smoking in ones own garden is completely lawful.


The same people telling someone not to smoke would cry if someone else parked outside there door. the are not related in my view.

scd3scd4

silverwhistle wrote: »

I've a friend in a parlous state at this very moment. I remember arguing the toss about the new smoking ban in pubs with her and another friend when it was due to be introduced. But they never agreed to my suggestion for an occasional visit to an alternative non-smoking venue, as I'd leave that one after a short visit with streaming eyes, a cough and the need to strip off and wash my hair when I got home.



I'm a veteran team sports player, and having an annual medical a few years ago the sports doctor observed that he could see I'd never smoked. Which is why it upsets me to see one of our juniors smoking at training. Of course she has a right to, but it's going to have an impact on her life, not just her ability to play sport. I just wonder how she can afford them!

Do you also advise them on alcohol and healthy eating. How about drugs or dangerous sports/hobbies. I assume you ask if they are having safe sex???

SelfyEmployed

If I knew my smoke was going into a child's bedroom, I would certainly move elsewhere in the garden. I couldn't relax and have a smoke if I knew that was what was happening. Yes it may be my garden. but I would not want to do that to a child. I wouldn't want to do it to anyone but certainly not a child.


I do not think its unreasonable for a neighbour to make a request in this case - I certainly would ask if it was my child as a first port of call. If they were not willing to move for their morning or evening cigarette then I would have to try reshuffle rooms so my child wasn't in the room with the smoke issue.


I don't understand how you can't empathise with the fact that its a child that is having to deal with smoke in their room. Who cares if the parents like to "cause trouble" with all the neighbours - that isn't justification to me to continue smoking in that spot of the garden. Even if it is once or twice a day - maybe you are picking a time when the child is going to bed.


Not sure how you can continue smoking in that spot and not have it cross your mind each time that it is going into a child's bedroom window.

scd3scd4

ohh come on. 1 or 2 cigs a day and the wind has to be blowing in that direction and at a certain strength at 20 feet. Assuming the window is never closed at times and the child just happens to be in bed at that time.


How often is this really happening??


All these all so reasonably people...................I beat if you asked them to stop their cat taking a little poo poo in your garden would throw their hands in the air!!

Marvel1

My parents smoked in the house when I was a kid and nothing wrong with me - interesting.

Marvel1

scd3scd4 wrote: »

ohh come on. 1 or 2 cigs a day and the wind has to be blowing in that direction and at a certain strength at 20 feet. Assuming the window is never closed at times and the child just happens to be in bed at that time.


How often is this really happening??


All these all so reasonably people...................I beat if you asked them to stop their cat taking a little poo poo in your garden would throw their hands in the air!!

They are the same people who drive cars :rotfl:

Red-Squirrel_2

cjdavies wrote: »

My parents in the house when I was a kid and nothing wrong with me - interesting.

Presume you meant to say the smoked in the house?

The dangers of passive smoking are well proven, there can be no denying reality. That you, one individual, are ok means nothing.

Marvel1

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Presume you meant to say the smoked in the house?

The dangers of passive smoking are well proven, there can be no denying reality. That you, one individual, are ok means nothing.

Sorry yes.

Exactly, the same as the reverse.

boliston

as more and more people are now living in rented homes (often with smoking bans) this will become more common - my neighbours are often stood out in the street (there is no garden) so smoke comes up and into my windows - i don't think i could really ask them to move into the middle of the street to smoke

JuzaMum

My single neighbour smokes in her garden. Our gardens are small so she can't go further away. I have asthmatic children (one had 3 hospital admissions last year due to it). Sometimes the smoke drifts into my kitchen when the doors open in summer.
I have never considered complaining about it to her. She isn't being inconsiderate - she is just enjoying her garden.
She doesn't complain about my noisy children shouting and occasionally knocking things over the fence.
I imagine the pollution levels in the garden when she has are fag and no worse than those walking along a busy road.