Writer's Block: Tobacco road

[erastes]

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Good Lord No.

Not that I like smoking and smoke, but it's a bit of a huge jump. Who owns "the streets" ? Unless you make smoking altogether an offence, I can't see how you could ban it -- and would that mean everywhere, like "in the desert" "in the wood" "in international waters" - where would you stop.

i tend to smoke after sex, but then I do go at it a bit over enthusiatically.

Boom boom!

Comments

[angrboda]

I agree with this. Indoor on all public places and restaurants and whatnot is one thing, but outdoors as well? That's too far. It's a bit like forbidding people to smoke in their own houses or gardens because the neighbours can smell it. I'm aware that some people are more sensitive to the smell of smoke than others (my mother knows a woman who can smell if the person in the car in front of her is smoking while driving), but come on! When we're outdoors we can choose not to stand down wind and people can do what they like in their own gardens. Including smoking.

I think the ultimate goal here is to making smoking tobacco illegal completely, and they're babystepping their way towards that.

[tim crowhurst (from livejournal.com)]

I'm a non-smoker, and this makes no sense to me.

Many cafes, pubs, resaurants etc. have their outside smoking areas to the front, next to the pavement. Since it's private land in theory it shouldn't be covered by any ban on smoking in the street, but that makes any street-smoking ban a legal absurdity since smoke doesn't stay in one place. So do they also intend to ban smoking in the outside smoking areas which were made necessary by the ban on smoking inside pubs?

It seems to me that there's a very clear line between reasonable and unreasonable, and this is about five miles beyond that line.

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

[antychan.livejournal.com]

Sorry; after countless experiences like this, I can only say, "hell, yes!" I've had it.


Sky: *rains*

Smoker below the tiny roof at the bus-stop: *smokes*

Non-smoker below the tiny roof at the bus-stop: *throat starts hurting from the smoke, freshly-washed clothes and hair start smelling like crap* (politely): "Excuse me, would you mind turning around or putting off your cigarette?"

Smoker: "If you don't like it, wait somewhere else."

Non-smoker: (optional) "I'd expect nothing less from a fucking addict. I'll just be out in the rain then."

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

I'd like them to ban people wearing socks with sandles on public streets...

[oceankitty1.livejournal.com]

Maybe not. We do after all live in a free world. (Ha-ha-ha...)
But I'd like to see a ban on sunny days in the summer, when everyone sits outside the restaurants and I can't because of my allergies.
Or on bus stops. I have been forced out into the rain from under the tiny roof more times than I can count.
But then again, people have to learn how to cope with handicaps more severe than mine all the time.
I have no right to complain really.
I guess the only ban we need is the ban on bad behavior.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would.

I get migraines if I'm anywhere near cigarette smoke, and it only takes a few minutes' exposure. I've had it with people puffing away in outdoor no-smoking areas (10 metres from the door is the distance required at the college where Wife works - and when I pick her up, I get bombarded by all the little darlings feeding their addictions just outside the door. They even do it outside hospitals.

I'm sorry. When people can smoke without affecting others around them, then fine, do it. But they can't.