Smoking on sites
I was wondering if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to have smoking and non smoking areas on sites. As a family of non-smokers with a young child we recently experienced quite a lot of second hand cigarette smoke from a neighbouring pitch. It
was particularly unpleasant on hot evenings when we needed to have our windows open as our neighbours and their guests sat outside (quite near to our windows) enjoying their cigarettes.
I know smokers have faced lots of restrictions recently and that many feel unfairly treated, but I would very much like to be able to have fresh air coming in through the windows and not have my three year old passively smoking. Just wondered if anyone else
had had similar experiences and felt the same way.
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It may well be unpleasant but I can't see it happening. Where would you draw the line. There are often other things that annoy folk such as BBQ's, Music, TV's, Dogs, Children, groups in awnings, I afraid the list is a long one. I do sympathise by the way we had a German couple on the next pitch to us, they were within a few feet of our windows. They were both smokers and pretty much chain smoking, not very pleasant at all.
Edit. Beat me to it Husky
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We would have moved pitch to get away from it, if we could. We like sites with big pitches and good spacing, hence CLs mainly in Summer.
Not nice to have to put up with, pot luck on your neighbours on a lot of sites. You have my sympathies.
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I can understand your thoughts, Em, but I fear it's a non-starter. Segregation has been discussed before - see Husky's post - but we are an inclusive club and don't discriminate or segregate.
Think, too, of the logistics of operating such a scheme. It would be an administrative nightmare and we couldn't expect wardens to police it.
Much better, as Ollie said, to have a polite word with the smokers. They probably had no idea the smoke was bothering you.
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is this for real ?
as has been said there are many things in life that are an annoyance to some. The second hand smoke health thing I don't see as an argument or issue as walking the child down the road will place the child in close proximity yo car emmisions, the list is
endless.for the record I smoke cigars
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If people want to smoke,its their choice,but what is annoying is going onto a pitch to find it smothered in fag ends
I am waiting for the usual comment about dogs
...are dogs equally untidy with their cigarette butts?
Is that why they are called "dog ends"?
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What would a quiet word entail?-'could you stop smoking whilst next to me, could you only smoke in the middle of a field, could you only smoke when the wind takes the smoke away from me?'(I too am a none smoker) but as long as I'm not in a closed room 2nd
hand smoke has no concerns for me. I fear your entreaties to a smoker may not be met with the best of replies
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But then members will want other areas for
No dogs
No flag poles
No fairy lights
No BBQ's
No children
where will it end???????????
No Caravans ?
No Motorhomes ?
No Camping ?
I suppose you could go & sit in the Ameneties Block tho' the smell of Washing up liquid can be a tad rank at times ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,,
Brian ( ex -- 60 a day man who cannot stand the stink of 'em now -- nothing and I mean NOTHING
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Nothing worse than a reformed 'sotweed junkie,' am I close Muscles. . . .Am I, am I?
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Neither my wife or I smoke, But the law seems adequate to deal with people inhaling second hand smoke.
I prefer the live and let live attitude to people who want to smoke out in the wide open spaces of the open air. or in their van.
We are all on holiday so let everybody enjoy their break in whichever way they choose so long as they don't bother anybody else.
.K
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As someone who doesn't like to stew when someone else is spoiling my enjoyment or not acting responsibly I have had polite words on several occasions. Only a couple of times camping and on both occasions about noise. Both times have resulted in the noise
being satisfactorily reduced.I don't understand why people fester if something is bothering them. I know if I had my radio too loud or was talking too loud at night I would be horrified if it was annoying someone. So just approach them how you'd like to be approached - then there shouldn't
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and save ther rest of us the money of paying for the treatment of their self inflicted injury through the NHS.
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as Sir Humprey would say on that:
Yes but we've been in to that, it has been shown that if those extra 100,000 people had lived to a ripe old age, it would have cost us even more in pensions and social security than it did in medical treatment. So, financially speaking it's unquestionably
better that they continue to die at their present rate.could well be true?
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That is one thing that some smokers do not realise ,is the smell that hangs around them long after the "dog end " has been discarded (mostly on the ground),My lastest OH used to smoke but decided that it was give up fags or rumpty tumpty with me, she gave up fags
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