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would you ask someone to stop smoking

  • 12-06-2013 08:54PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭simply simple


    ya, so would you ask someone to stop smoking when you are in a queue and dont like the smoke right onto your face , specially if you are a non smoker?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭123 LC


    yeah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭FizzleSticks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭simply simple


    123 LC wrote: »
    yeah
    what would you say, I felt sick of that today but had no courage to ask them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Outdoors in a public place, no.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The queue was outdoors presumably?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭simply simple


    kneemos wrote: »
    The queue was outdoors presumably?
    ofcourse, most places dont allow smoking indoors


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    No, I used to smoke and it probably annoyed people, but smoking outdoors I don't see the problem. Anyway the tax on ciggys is probably all thats holding the HSE together these days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    I'm an ex smoker and no, I wouldn't. Its a free country. Smokers are allowed smoke in few enough places as it is, let them enjoy it says I. When I smoked I hated nothing more than whining ex / non smokers, I'd hate to become one myself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭simply simple


    I'm an ex smoker and no, I wouldn't. Its a free country. Smokers are allowed smoke in few enough places as it is, let them enjoy it says I. When I smoked I hated nothing more than whining ex / non smokers.
    dont you think those who dont like smoke also have right to enjoy fresh natural air? and that too when one is causing inconvenience for the other?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    ofcourse, most places dont allow smoking indoors

    Doubt it's doing you any harm outside though the smell is a bit manky(speaking as an ex smoker)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Ex smoker here, hate the things, but I would think it very selfish of someone to ask someone not to smoke where they are legally allowed.

    If you don't like it you can fairly easily face the other way for the few mins it takes for the rotten thing to be smoked. No big deal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,906 ✭✭✭✭PhlegmyMoses


    dont you think those who dont like smoke also have right to enjoy fresh natural air? and that too when one is causing inconvenience for the other?

    Of course you have the right to that and most smokers should be considerate enough to notice that. However, the situation you describe is after the milk has been spilt. At this point, asking somebody to stop smoking is a bit dickish and confrontational. There's no nice, non-awkward way of doing it and the fact that the other person is seemingly oblivious to others makes it unlikely you'll have a civil conversation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    dont you think those who dont like smoke also have right to enjoy fresh natural air? and that too when one is causing inconvenience for the other?

    Of course they do, and it'll be back when the smoker puts their ciggy out in 2 minutes time. Its a slight and very short discomfort. Non smokers make too big a deal out of it IMO.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I was boarding the train one morning and greeted by a filthy plume of smoke exhaled in my direction. If you are going to smoke do it with courtesy to others


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭simply simple


    the thing is, sometimes even if you are standing with a kid, smokers just dont care (knowingly). Just that they are legally allowed to do so doesnt mean they have to stop acting responsibly!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,362 ✭✭✭Sergeant


    No one is going to stop me smoking my breakfast.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    Having a hard time imagining how much smoke you are actually being bothered by when you are outside and I presume not touching shoulder to shoulder or face to face with the smoker.

    If they are blowing it in your face, that's different of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    the thing is, sometimes even if you are standing with a kid, smokers just dont care (knowingly). Just that they are legally allowed to do so doesnt mean they have to stop acting responsibly!
    I think children are at less risk from passive smoke in the outdoors than they are from inhaling fumes from passing traffic and pollution to be honest. I remember having a ciggy while waiting at a bus stop in the UK years ago. A woman who'd parked near by, walked past giving me the evils while telling her child to hurry past. It was a congested city ffs, the couple of seconds it took for them to pass by on their way to wherever were negligable to his health.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    It pisses me off that a lot of smokers seem to hold their cirgarette away from themselves so that the smoke is blowing into someone elses face.
    I've confronted a few people for blowing smoke in my little daughters face while in crowds and ques.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    It pisses me off that a lot of smokers seem to hold their cirgarette away from themselves so that the smoke is blowing into someone elses face.
    I've confronted a few people for blowing smoke in my little daughters face while in crowds and ques.
    No offence but could you not just move further away? Obviously blowing smoke in someones face is unacceptable but really if you've got an issue with someone smoking in your vicinity you could just move further away, why should they put out their ciggy when you are the one who has the problem.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    No offence but could you not just move further away? Obviously blowing smoke in someones face is unacceptable but really if you've got an issue with someone smoking in your vicinity you could just move further away, why should they put out their ciggy when you are the one who has the problem.

    If they really are blowing smoke directly into the little girls face, that is a pretty miserable thing to do. No need. The human head moves in many directions! ...easier not to blow smoke at the little girl than to blow it at her.

    On the other hand, if the little girl is just near someone who is smoking and occasionally some blows in her direction then it's a bit precious to start giving out.

    Bit of balance required.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    No offence but could you not just move further away? Obviously blowing smoke in someones face is unacceptable but really if you've got an issue with someone smoking in your vicinity you could just move further away, why should they put out their ciggy when you are the one who has the problem.

    If I'm in a crowd or a queue there usually isn't much room for moving away. I'd put up with it myself, but I don't want my toddler breathing in the stuff.

    I don't ask them to put it out, just hold it in front of their own face rather than mine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,304 ✭✭✭Mav11


    ya, so would you ask someone to stop smoking when you are in a queue and dont like the smoke right onto your face , specially if you are a non smoker?

    Why stop there? What about if you're in the same queue and someone is wearing obnoxious perfume or aftershave? Would you ask that person to stop using it? Or would you just move a safe distance away???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    If I'm in a crowd or a queue there usually isn't much room for moving away. I'd put up with it myself, but I don't want my toddler breathing in the stuff.

    I don't ask them to put it out, just hold it in front of their own face rather than mine.
    I can appreciate where you're coming from.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Mav11 wrote: »
    Why stop there? What about if you're in the same queue and someone is wearing obnoxious perfume or aftershave? Would you ask that person to stop using it? Or would you just move a safe distance away???
    Christ, I think some of those perfumes like Poison for example would kill you faster than ciggys ever would. I've to try not to breathe whenever I pass someone wearing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Depp


    you can ask all you want, as long as I'm outside I'm legally entitled to enjoy a cigarette, I'd usually try to blow the smoke away from people and if I happened to blow it in someones direction I'd apologize but if i was asked to put it out the person would be politely told to eff off...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    tried.. got an asshole who said, "I'm outside, fcuk off" .. so that was that ..:/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,304 ✭✭✭Mav11


    Depp wrote: »
    you can ask all you want, as long as I'm outside I'm legally entitled to enjoy a cigarette, I'd usually try to blow the smoke away from people and if I happened to blow it in someones direction I'd apologize but if i was asked to put it out the person would be politely told to eff off...

    Pity people don't smoke pipes anymore, the smell of pipe tobacco was gorgeous!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Unless you have chosen to be in close proximity to me smoking you won't have the opportunity to ask, I intentionally smoke away from people so as not to bug them, unless it's pissing rain in which case i ask before lighting up. My biggest annoyance is when I'm trying to enjoy a smoke and someone needlessly positions their children in my vicinity, it actually annoys me more if they don't look at me like I'm in the wrong, that means they see no issue with subjecting the child to it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,773 ✭✭✭Synyster Shadow


    If I was in a cue with my 2 month old baby and there was someone smoking around him and it was blowing into his buggy then I'd politely ask them to blow it the other way


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