Should We Now Move The Smoking Ban To Public Open Spaces?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31602414

[Hypognosis]

On the grounds of dilution, they cannot exactly use the same arguments as were used for indoor spaces.

Not without tackling what comez out the back end of diesel vehicles. Ban those first, then you're talking!

Heh heh.

[RATTER15]

I wouldnt worry about parks so much as towns and cities! its the towns and cities that are a problem, getting a whiff of the fagger in front of me really makes me want to gag, gross!!

[melv16]

I recently went to my local train station to pick up some tickets. Outside there were at least 40 taxis queuing to pick up fares. Every vehicle had its engine running. I think it would take quite a few fags to match the pollution they were chucking out!

[ToraToraTora]

It's not a pollution issue hypo, it's the disgusting smell and the unpleasantness of getting a lungful of someones puffing excretion. When I walk down the street I regularly stop and let a smoker get far enough ahead so I don't have to smell their SH1. Yes, no doubt fuel out pourings are far more dangerous but mostly you cannot smell them.

[RATTER15]

Also diesel vehicles are a bit more than just a leisurely pastime habit, they do have a function!

[McMouse]

I don't agree with a blanket ban in all public places, but would support banning smoking within say 25 yards of any building. This would allow me to walk past the pavement tables outside our village coffee shops and avoid getting lungfuls of cigarette smoke.

[jno]

you'e going to ban smells you don't like? Great. Fish shops first please. In fact, fish. I don't like the smell.

Then farting. It's a disgrace that people are allowed to do this.

[-Talbot-]

It's not just a smell though, is it jno?

[RATTER15]

again jno, these are not just leisurely pass-times, the smell of food is pretty much unavoidable, puffing smoke around when people are trying to breath is totally avoidable.

[jno]

Talbot, TTT says that's the basis of his post.

I agree with Hypo, vehicle emissions are far more dangerous. Somehow we think that they're less so - because we can't smell them. All the more reason to deal with them first. Then we can outlaw farting and fishing.

[ToraToraTora]

It is the smelll jno but it's also the unpleasant throat/nasal feeling you get you don't get that from fuel fumes or food smells.

[whistonian]

My wife of 78 years in reasonably good health(we thought) suddenly collapsed on the evening of 5th Jan ,4 days later she died.I was informed that it was aggressive COPD due to a lifetime of smoking.I stopped smoking over 20 years ago and how I wished that she had.She never smoked in the street and i purchased I think every stop smoking product for her that came on the market but to no avail. Smoking does kill,if you smoke please stop now,or possibly one day leave your loved ones to grieve as I am now.

[maggiebee]

I think everyone who has halitosis should stay at home. Very offensive for everyone around either indoors or outdoors.

[jno]

same differrence, TTT: you want to ban something because it gives you an unpleasant nasal feeling? I quite like the smell of smoking myself; but it needs restricting because it's lethal, not because my nose does/doesn't like it.

[ToraToraTora]

Julie andrews had supercalifragilisticexpeehalitosis

[ToraToraTora]

whatever jno, stay in troll mode if you must

[ummmm]

It gets boring when someone who disagrees keeps being called a troll. Jno is NOT a troll.

[ToraToraTora]

looks like you have a fan jno, I wonder if she's a smoker!

[jno]

I'm a troll because I disagree with you? You're getting awfully thin-skinned in your old age, TTT!