Getting lectured about smoking.... In the smoking area.

FinnLizzy

The smoking ban was a great way to separate the smokers from non-smokers in pubs, and raised the standard of the pub by the size of the smoking area.

Along with separating the smokers from the non-smokers, smokers were separated from those that would have a good aul moan about smoking around them, which is fair enough.

I was at a pub after a club outing in college and had a smoke with someone else from that club. Some clean lunged bítch comes out and tells us the standard 'smoking is bad for you, do you really want to fúck up your lungs'. I gave the usual cheeky reply '****! I was under the impression that they were very good for me!'.

You might come across this with a group of people where the majority smoke, and a few come out to the smoking area to have a conversation without the blaring shít music in the backround.

But anyways, my question is to smokers, how often do you get hassled for smoking in the smoking area?

Wolfe Tone

lol To me it sounds like you misread the situation...

Fishooks12

Maybe you should actually listen to her and give up rather than moan about her moaning?

Sykk

People need to mind their own business.

Smoking is disgusting btw. You foul creature.

Corvo

Always bloody happens. You get the usual "Your blowing smoke in my face"

Well sooorry, but you are in the f**king smoking area you clown and this is the one place I get to exhale it where ever I want!

One place in Wexford has plastic grass (astro-turf kind of thing) in the smoking area. So when you drop the fag, it kind of melts. Very strange thing to put in you will agree.

Corvo

Griffin1988 wrote: »

Always bloody happens. You get the usual "Your blowing smoke in my face"

Well sooorry, but you are in the f**king smoking area you clown and this is the one place I get to exhale it where ever I want!

One place in Wexford has plastic grass (astro-turf kind of thing) in the smoking area. So when you drop the fag, it kind of melts. Very strange thing to put in you will agree.

That last bit was a bit irrelevant wasnt it? :rolleyes:

FinnLizzy

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

lol To me it sounds like you misread the situation...

You weren't there man, you weren't there.

Gophur

Griffin1988 wrote: »

.......... So when you drop the fag, it kind of melts. Very strange thing to put in you will agree.

You mean, when you litter?

What's supposed to happen the fag butt when you drop it? Disappear?

Why would anyone throw a fag butt on to plastic grass when other receptacles, bins, ash-trays are provided?

AnonoBoy

Smokers used to be so rebellious and anti-establishment and cool. "I don't care if it's bad for me I'm gonna do it anyway and I don't care what you think!"

Yeah! Stick It To The Man!

These days they whinge about any little passing remark that someone makes to them.

What happened smokers? You used to be cool.

FinnLizzy

Fishooks12 wrote: »

Maybe you should actually listen to her and give up rather than moan about her moaning?

Maybe I should think about it over a cool refreshing smoke of Golden Virginia, with the finest cut tobacco from flavour country.

krudler

"smoking is disgusting you know!"
*hold up cigarette*
"see this? my grandmother lived to be 95 years old"
"from smoking?"
"from minding her own fcuking business"

Corvo

Gophur wrote: »

You mean, when you litter?

What's supposed to happen the fag butt when you drop it? Disappear?

Why would anyone throw a fag butt on to plastic grass when other receptacles, bins, ash-trays are provided?

I'd say you're great craic when you are out

hidinginthebush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ySCcnoo3c

Cameron Poe

Giving out about smoking in a smoking area is about as stupid as it gets. It's akin to going to a pub to whinge about people drinking or going to mass to give out about mass. It makes no geographical sense.

FinnLizzy

I'd consider going one up, and getting a load of straight edge folk to whine at the moaning 'smoking is bad for you' brigade and their drinking.

Then I'll slip off to the heroin section and enjoy myself.

FinnLizzy

Cameron Poe wrote: »

Giving out about smoking in a smoking area is about as stupid as it gets. It's akin to going to a pub to whinge about people drinking or going to mass to give out about mass. It makes no geographical sense.

Some of us didn't have a choice on the mass front for the first 13 years of our life. Moaning about Catholics and their weird, cannibalistic ways passed a lot of time by the end.

LLU

Gophur wrote: »

You mean, when you litter?

What's supposed to happen the fag butt when you drop it? Disappear?

Why would anyone throw a fag butt on to plastic grass when other receptacles, bins, ash-trays are provided?

indeed. you give them a nice smoking area and in return they litter it, melt it, and complain about people say in it. nice.

Gophur

Griffin1988 wrote: »

I'd say you're great craic when you are out

You'll never know!

Wattle

I don't drink but I smoke. If someone's lecturing me about smoking while holding a pint or a glass of wine i might suggest they visit any A&E department on a weekend night and then tell me how great alcohol is.

xsiborg

i had to laugh at the mental image of someone coming out to tell off the OP about smoking, then heading back in to destroy their liver with alcohol!

-Kenny-

OK I don't smoke but OP you were right to tell her to basically F**k off. You were in a smoking area. If I was there and heard I woulda told her off meself

4leto

FinnLizzy wrote: »

The smoking ban was a great way to separate the smokers from non-smokers in pubs, and raised the standard of the pub by the size of the smoking area.

Along with separating the smokers from the non-smokers, smokers were separated from those that would have a good aul moan about smoking around them, which is fair enough.

I was at a pub after a club outing in college and had a smoke with someone else from that club. Some clean lunged bítch comes out and tells us the standard 'smoking is bad for you, do you really want to fúck up your lungs'. I gave the usual cheeky reply '****! I was under the impression that they were very good for me!'.

You might come across this with a group of people where the majority smoke, and a few come out to the smoking area to have a conversation without the blaring shít music in the backround.

But anyways, my question is to smokers, how often do you get hassled for smoking in the smoking area?

I think she was chatting you up. You might have missed an opportunity there and she had the clean lungs and stamina to please you more. Tut Tut OP.

Wertz

You should have shoved it down her throat...then she'd see how bad it is for her lungs...

maxfresh

Should have told her that passive smoking will damage her lungs ,so get the fcuk out of the smoking area

wild_cat

Does she go into pie shops and give out to fat people to?

mackg

krudler wrote: »

"smoking is disgusting you know!"
*hold up cigarette*
"see this? my grandmother lived to be 95 years old"
"from smoking?"
"from minding her own fcuking business"

I'm going saying that from now on, brilliant!

Gophur wrote: »

You mean, when you litter?

What's supposed to happen the fag butt when you drop it? Disappear?

Why would anyone throw a fag butt on to plastic grass when other receptacles, bins, ash-trays are provided?

You and the girl from the OP should get together.

LLU wrote: »

indeed. you give them a nice smoking area and in return they litter it, melt it, and complain about people say in it. nice.

Yeah compared to the rest of the pub/club, you could eat off the ground in the non smoking area.


In fairness OP she was probably only giving out to you because she was told to fcuk off from the bar for giving out to people about drinking!

puffin24

I was in a smoking area in a pub in Galway, came out without a lighter but figured it shouldnt be too difficult to source one. Its a small smoking area and was crammed full of smokers. Went to a table of 8 people and asked for a light and got the response- "Nah sorry, we dont smoke" ....8 people....none of them. Why would they prefer to sit out in the cold in what is effectively a smoke filled alleyway?! Wasnt for scoring purposes, they were 4 couples. Very odd non-smoker behaviour I thought....

Poor Uncle Tom

puffin24 wrote: »

I was in a smoking area in a pub in Galway, came out without a lighter but figured it shouldnt be too difficult to source one. Its a small smoking area and was crammed full of smokers. Went to a table of 8 people and asked for a light and got the response- "Nah sorry, we dont smoke" ....8 people....none of them. Why would they prefer to sit out in the cold in what is effectively a smoke filled alleyway?! Wasnt for scoring purposes, they were 4 couples. Very odd non-smoker behaviour I thought....

Newsflash: They were all smokers, they just didn't like the look of you.....:p

KittyeeTrix

puffin24 wrote: »

I was in a smoking area in a pub in Galway, came out without a lighter but figured it shouldnt be too difficult to source one. Its a small smoking area and was crammed full of smokers. Went to a table of 8 people and asked for a light and got the response- "Nah sorry, we dont smoke" ....8 people....none of them. Why would they prefer to sit out in the cold in what is effectively a smoke filled alleyway?! Wasnt for scoring purposes, they were 4 couples. Very odd non-smoker behaviour I thought....

That's cos all the cool people are smokers and the smoking area is the place to be on a night out:cool:

AgileMyth

puffin24 wrote: »

I was in a smoking area in a pub in Galway, came out without a lighter but figured it shouldnt be too difficult to source one. Its a small smoking area and was crammed full of smokers. Went to a table of 8 people and asked for a light and got the response- "Nah sorry, we dont smoke" ....8 people....none of them. Why would they prefer to sit out in the cold in what is effectively a smoke filled alleyway?! Wasnt for scoring purposes, they were 4 couples. Very odd non-smoker behaviour I thought....

Was the pub playing rubbish music really loudly?* I am a smoker, but if I wasn't I'd probably still spend most of my time outside because of this!

*I'm guessing they were, because most busy pubs do. I'll never understand that one.:rolleyes:

Da Shins Kelly

Sanctimonious, up-on-their-high-horse non-smokers are possibly the most annoying type of people I've ever met. Just f*ck off, will ye?

joseph brand

Ever get lectured by someone who has just recently given up? Friend of mine, smoked for years. First thing he says to me in the pub:
"What are you doing smoking? You wanna give that up. I suppose you're off to the smoking area!"

I didn't say anything, I was too confused.

orourkeda

Then if the increased likelihood of a fatal isn't enough to get a smoker to stop why should non smokers waste their breathe on someone who doesnt want to listen.

It's clear that reason isn't going to work on a smoker. They wouldnt have taken up the habit in the first place otherwise.

Fbjm

While on the topic of smokers etc, literally every time I'm waiting on a train, there's someone standing beside me who decides to light up; and they always happen to be standing bloody upwind of me. I don't care if you want to fúck up your own lungs, but I like mine fully functional thanks.

du Maurier

Sanctimonious is correct, as someone said.

Her self-importance in particular. Even moreso than the idea of her self-preservation i.e. not smoking, because it seems the moany old bag wants to live on and on and on as she's such a wonderful person, necessary to all mankind, pontificating and being brilliant and the longer she lives the more she can advise and thus apparently be more self-important. Something like that anyway..:pac:

puffin24

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Newsflash: They were all smokers, they just didn't like the look of you.....:p

Didnt have to bring my hideous troll-likeness into it....:(

Darkginger

Fbjm wrote: »

While on the topic of smokers etc, literally every time I'm waiting on a train, there's someone standing beside me who decides to light up; and they always happen to be standing bloody upwind of me. I don't care if you want to fúck up your own lungs, but I like mine fully functional thanks.

So move a bit. Not rocket science, is it?

Big Nasty

This is a few years back, not too long after the ban came in and a couple of us were sanding outside a pub smoking. The pub itself has a good bit of space out the front, maybe 12 feet between pub and road and 60 feet if not more the length of the pub itself with wooden benches, etc. Anyhow it's a chilly enough night and just to the right of the door there's one of those gas things there for the benefit of anyone sitting outside but obviously installed with smokers in mind as the but it in just after the ban. So there we are, having pints inside and coming out for a smoke and huddling under this heater when this dude asks us to move because he doesn't like the smell od smoke! Felt like teling the wankbag to fcuk off bag inside the pub! :mad::mad::mad:

Big Nasty

Darkginger wrote: »

So move a bit. Not rocket science, is it?

To be fair, and this is coming from a smoker, at a train / tram / DART line you don't have much choice than to stand outside. The odd time I use the Luas I walk as far away from other would be passengers as possible if I want to smoke.

veryangryman

hidinginthebush wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ySCcnoo3c

Bill Hicks was not funny, cool, nor an ambassador of comedy.

If he were around today, nobody would watch him.

I dont mind people who smoke, some of my best mates past and present do it and ive been happy to hang with them regardless. My point is that glorifying it and having ambassadors like bill for it is just wrong.

Im getting ready to run because i fear an onslaught of p1ss blasting. Im off to the nearest smoking area to make my point!

super_furry

Fbjm wrote: »

While on the topic of smokers etc, literally every time I'm waiting on a train, there's someone standing beside me who decides to light up; and they always happen to be standing bloody upwind of me. I don't care if you want to fúck up your own lungs, but I like mine fully functional thanks.

So move.

RichieC

Ex smokers can be the worst kind of scum. sure it's no wonder Hitler tried to kill them in the holocaust too.

du Maurier

veryangryman wrote: »

Bill Hicks was not funny, cool, nor an ambassador of comedy.

If he were around today, nobody would watch him.

I dont mind people who smoke, some of my best mates past and present do it and ive been happy to hang with them regardless. My point is that glorifying it and having ambassadors like bill for it is just wrong.

Im getting ready to run because i fear an onslaught of p1ss blasting. Im off to the nearest smoking area to make my point!

Well you won't hear it from me:pac:

ItsAWindUp

Tell them to f uck off back indoors out of the smoking area if they don't like it.

up for anything

orourkeda wrote: »

TIt's clear that reason isn't going to work on a smoker. They wouldnt have taken up the habit in the first place otherwise.

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. Some of us didn't know that it was bad for us when we started. :rolleyes:

AnonoBoy

up for anything wrote: »

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. Some of us didn't know that it was bad for us when we started. :rolleyes:

If you started smoking before 1980 then that's a reasonable excuse!

OP, I reckon it might have been an awkward attempt at a chat-up line and you blew it! :pac:

Son Of A Vidic

FinnLizzy wrote: »

Some clean lunged bítch comes out and tells us the standard 'smoking is bad for you

So said bítch was in the pub and approached you, why didn't you mention to her that drinking is also potentially bad for her. You also should have asked her how many units of alcohol has she consumed this week. Again, you also could have pointed out that as a female, her units of alcohol intake per week should be a lot less than that of a male. Yet for some reason, I have no doubt said fúckwit probably exceeds these recommended safe intake levels quite easily.

james405

Hey,

Has anyone tried the new electric cigarettes? I seen them advertised on some deal sites for like 60% off. my cousin bought one and has been off the fags for 6 months now! I remain a pessimist! Its essentially smoking the nicoteine without the tar!

I know nicotine is bad for blood pressure but does it cause the same yellowing of teeth??? affecting the gums possibly?

mcmoustache

up for anything wrote: »

That's a bit of a sweeping statement. Some of us didn't know that it was bad for us when we started. :rolleyes:

How long ago was that?

I know that smoking is bad for me but so is drinking, fast food, coffee, glue, walking in the city center, sitting on my ass staring at a monitor all day and a host of other things. I eat healthily, drink little, play for a GAA club and cycle everywhere so it all balances out I guess.

Wibbs

Had similar happen to me about two years back. Deep in the smoking section of a pub, this wan comes up and gives me the same static as the OP's wan. She had her long streak of paralysed piss boyfriend in tow to support her. I calmly told her and him to fcuk off and made some off colour comment on the fact she was a land cetacean figure wise. One should always tell whining intrusive twats like this to fcuk off.