If You Tolerate This.....

[Gavmacp]

I am rather surprised this has not been discussed.
Bristol is implementing two smoke free zones. I feel this is just going a bit too far. What next fat people free zones, or poor people free zones etc.

[Daffy6543]

By the way gavmacp, I now have the Manic Street Preachers track stuck in my head.... thanks :-/

[Zacs-Master]

It's entirely voluntary Daffy, as has been pointed out.

[Daffy6543]

I didn't mean just these zones zacs, sorry for not making that clear. I was referring to all the zones that buenchico mentioned.

[Jackdaw33]

If the lads had been forbidden from lighting up in the trenches a hundred years ago perhaps the outcome might have been somewhat different.

[jno]

it's been suggested for Trafalgar Square too

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29623851

[tonyav]

Ah it's voluntary then, giz a light.

[Mamyalynne]

Get thee 'sen to t'dance floor Tony,Buckram.

[tonyav]

LOL.

[Buenchico]

^^^With regard to the question of enforcement, Bournemouth's beach patrols will ask people to stop smoking or move to another beach if they're found smoking on a smoke-free beach. As they often patrol in the company of police officers they tend to be obeyed.

Blackpool's smoke-free parks are currently voluntary but Stoke-on-Trent is watching London (where BJ has suggested legislation banning smoking in some public spaces) to see if they should follow suit.

[Jackdaw33]

Do people actually get paid for patrolling beaches and asking people to stop smoking?

[Buenchico]

>>>Do people actually get paid for patrolling beaches and asking people to stop smoking?

Yes, but they do much more besides (such as reuniting lost children with their parents, watching out for suspicious activities, warning people about entering the sea when it's too rough, giving advice about protection from the sun, discouraging or reporting drunken behaviour, providing first aid, etc, etc).

[ichkeria]

More and more pubs, businesses etc are realising that clumps of people smoking outside their premises is unpleasant and off putting and are stopping people from doing it, which in my view is long overdue.
As observed, there are no-smoking zones outdoors already - and no drinking zones also which never seems to arouse the same protests. Presumably because for most people drinking is not addictive
As for the Manic Street Preachers I fully agree: if we tolerate smoking, our children will be the smokers of tomorrow (gets down off soap box after being told to move on). :-)

[Deskdiary]

"Being fat or poor doesn't directly affect other people's health"

Neither does smoking in a park.

[mikey4444]

Daffy ( 22:41)

As far as I can see it, these new areas in Bristol are going to be voluntary. I just think its worth a try.

[VHG]

Now there are less and less places for people to smoke I wonder if those that DO smoke realise how much they STINK.

I was waiting to cross the road the other day, standing behind a person who was smoking, and their hair stank and their clothes stank.

I don't think people who smoke realise how much they smell.

[andy-hughes]

Buenchicho - "It's hardly a new idea. Bournemouth has had smoke-free beaches for years. Blackpool has smoke-free parks. Stoke-on-Trent is to follow suit."

No surprises there - Stoke's Council is about three feet to the left of Karl Marx, so if there is a 'right-on' procedure, chances are they'll be in the queue!

[MrEe]

gness
Well, children in pushchairs are far too close to car exhausts so I think we should ban cars.....x


...or children?

[gness]

Ban children?.....Without a doubt!....☺

[tonyav]

Still waiting for a light here.