Rights for smokers
November 1st, 2008 by GregI am not a happy chappy today.
As you know I have been away for the past few days, well I actually visited Spain for a few days and returned today.
On my return journey I was flying from Gerona back to the UK and I had arrived in plenty of time to return the hire car and have time to spare. I was furious to find that once I had gone through security the authorities had decided to do away with the smoking area.
It was there at the end of August, and has been for years. I was a ‘roof garden’ sort of thing where smokers where able to go just off of the departure gates. Well I hunted everywhere, somehow this area had disappeared, there was no access to any roof area anywhere to be seen.
I thought I was going mad until I heard an announcement stating that from September 2008 there was no smoking permitted anywhere.
This really annoyed me for two reasons :
1. If I had known I would not have gone through to the departure lounge so early and could then have shot outside for a smoke.
2. There was no prior warnings, ie no warnings in August that they where doing away with the smoking area, no warnings as you approach the departure lounge that the smoking area is no longer available.
It is one thing making smokers go outside whatever the weather, that is bad enough but to actually not allow smoking at all is just not right. Give us back our human rights you bloody idiots.
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Just one of the many reasons I quit smoking.
- JobysBlog
If the government is going to allow the sale of tobacco because they want the tax revenue then they have a moral obligation to ensure that smokers have a place to smoke. I fully support non-smoking in enclosed public areas like restaurants etc. The hotel where I work went completely non-smoking last year.
Robin
I must admit I don’t agree with the non-smoking ban in enclosed area’s but as a smoker I would say that.
I believe
1. It should be down to the proprietors descretion, look at how many pubs have closed down in the UK since the smoking ban, even before the credit crunch hit. If anyone says pub closures soon after the ban had nothing to do with the ban then they live in cloud cuckoo land if you ask me.
2. If there must be a law then there should be an option for the proprietors to allocate a ’smoking room’ rather than to force them outside. Smokers have as much right as non-smokers, or they should have.
Agree.
Smokers are also human and must be treated like human.
If smoke that we produce is soo much dangerous to other living things in this world, then, try to consider banning the use of vehicles that even produce harmful smoke!