AIBU smoking outdoors?

We were inside a restaurant last week and smoke was wafting inside from outdoor tables. Really unpleasant, but we couldn’t have been further away from the doors so nothing we could do.

I am amazed that anyone can afford to smoke - the price of a packet of death is horrendous!!

Having never smoked I find it very unpleasant to be near someone smoking, either cigarettes or vapes. My late husband gave up smoking 20 years before he died but it still had an impact on his death. Adults can obviously make their own choices but I believe it should only be allowed in designated areas in all public places. I don’t go as far as them not being able to smoke in the street or certain park areas (away from playground areas) .

I haven't smoked this century and have no desire to smoke again, but I too like the smell of fresh cigarette smoke.
I thought people were not allowed to smoke anywhere now apart from their own houses.

MissAdventure

Ii can see both sides of this.
On the one hand, its not nice (unless you're witzend!) to be close to cigarette smoke.

The other is, where can smokers go to enjoy a fag in peace?

That’s it, they have to be outside somewhere don’t they, so I do think you’re being unreasonable.
I’m not a smoker btw.

Witzend

Must say that as an ex smoker I love getting a whiff of someone else’s fag!

I'm an ex smoker and hate the small of it now. I grew up in a house with a heavy smoker father and never noticed it then, but after I gave up - over 50 years ago now - I really notice other people's smoke. I still remember when smoking indoors was outlawed in the workplace and the problems colleagues who smoked had to find somewhere to have a smoke at breaks, especially when it was raining. I was prompted to give up when staying in a place which did not allow smoking indoors and having to go out in the rain was what made me decide to quit!

I avoid pubs and restaurants where there are people smoking at the door. The smoke always seems to come in.

I was a half hearted social smoker when I was young, but stopped when I was first pregnant because the very smell made me heave. That was 53 years ago, but every whiff of a cigarette still has the same effect, so I loathe it with a passion.

So all you smokers who want to quit, get pregnant! Worked for me.

Fallingstar

Vapes are equally annoying and give off a huge plume of smoke/steam that smells like acrid rotten fruit and will engulf anyone in a vapers direct vicinity.

Totally agree, horrendous chemical stinks.

I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke, & I'm an ex-smoker.

But I would follow someone along the pavement just for the smell if they were smoking pipe tobacco (especially Cut Golden Bar)

valdali

I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke, & I'm an ex-smoker.

But I would follow someone along the pavement just for the smell if they were smoking pipe tobacco (especially Cut Golden Bar)

Haha, like the old ads for StBruno😂

I really love the smell of cigarettes and pipes ... takes me right back to my Dad in his wet Harris tweed and the damp smell of out kitchen ... I love the smell ... what really pisses me off is when the doctor says " Oh it's probably cos you smoked " What the Bunion problem ? or the slipped disc ?

Yes, the Cut Golden Bar was Dad's tobacco Suzieq.
But regardless, I find pipe smoke delicious-smelling.

No! Simple, if you’re a smoker smoker in your own house!

I hate the smell and hate that it appears to cling to clothes and hair.

I was never a smoker, tried it a few times, it did absolutely nothing for me other than give me an awful dry mouth and cough and smell 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️