How close can you smoke to an office entrance?

Non Smokers, cheer up and think of this. Of course, smokers, not all, mind,but some, are a dirty disgusting lot with their smelly hair and clothes and their propensity to litter.
However in these hard times console yourselves with the amount of taxes they pay for the dreaded weed. In fact , you would do well to encourage them to smoke more. They will die about 7 to 10 years ahead of you and they won't be around to compete with you for the nursing home bed or the trolley( very few 75 year old plus smokers are around). By dying younger, they won't be drawing down their pensions so there will be more around for you healthy types as you languish on with healthy lungs( demented maybe but you can't have everything).
So, maybe instead of giving out about the entrance to the office, instead petition HR to have a proper smoking area , in which the addicts can indulge to their lung's content and in the rarefied office air , think of the long term benefits of their addiction!!!!!!
 
Brianne said:
Non Smokers, cheer up and think of this. Of course, smokers, not all, mind,but some, are a dirty disgusting lot with their smelly hair and clothes and their propensity to litter.
However in these hard times console yourselves with the amount of taxes they pay for the dreaded weed. In fact , you would do well to encourage them to smoke more. They will die about 7 to 10 years ahead of you and they won't be around to compete with you for the nursing home bed or the trolley( very few 75 year old plus smokers are around). By dying younger, they won't be drawing down their pensions so there will be more around for you healthy types as you languish on with healthy lungs( demented maybe but you can't have everything).
So, maybe instead of giving out about the entrance to the office, instead petition HR to have a proper smoking area , in which the addicts can indulge to their lung's content and in the rarefied office air , think of the long term benefits of their addiction!!!!!!
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That's nice.

Why does smoking seem to bring out this risibly self righteous and nasty attitude in non-smokers?

It's unreal.

If you don't like smoke, avoid smokers: simple. Passing a few smokers at a hospital entrance for 2 seconds is hardly going to kill you on the spot. There are plenty of more dangerous elements to the air we breathe anyway.

Smokers know it's bad for them. It's an addiction. Health risks are not exactly news.

Is every non-smoker the picture of health? Do people post about overweight people with their disgusting fat faces, their laziness, and point out the calorific value of cakes? :rolleyes:

BTW I actually do think that smokers huddled around office (and definitely hospital) entrances doesn't look good but it's still legal and where are they supposed to go?

Lots of lazy inconsiderate people litter too - it's certainly not confined to smokers.

A dedicated smoking room that 'the clean' don't have to go near would have helped but it hasn't worked out that way. But I suppose they would all still 'smell' anyway.

I'm away for a fag.
 
TarfHead said:
Smoking is anti-social; it has an adverse impact upon those in society who do not smoke, as well as those that do.
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Ive always noticed on courses Im sent to from work or conferences - its the smokers who bond and end up socialising together.

Since the smoking ban has come in the smoking areas in bars have become the new pick up areas, you cant move in the smoking areas packed with the non smokers at the end of the night.

What adverse impact exactly does smoking have upon those in society who do not smoke now that smokers have to go outside to smoke?

As for treating smokers like pariahs - well its refreshing to hear someone suggest that ANY sector of society should be treated as a pariah, who shall we treat as a pariah after the smokers? The alcoholics? The junkies? Yes, I dont like their habits either, so lets treat them as pariahs. You know something, its not just peoples habits, its their belief systems. I dont like that that family down the road have a different belief system to me, treat them like pariahs! Oh, unmarried mothers - I dont agree with that either, pariah time. Tax evaders - yep, pariah. You know something, you might not know someone has a particular habit or belief that we dont like, so lets get them to wear a badge of some sort, so its visible to every one. Then we can all get treating the pariahs like pariahs cos now we all know who they are right! Hmmm, this pariah treatment is ok, but really Id like to get them all into one big place where I wont have to keep seeing them and their disgusting habits/belief systems/other behaviours I dont like. Why dont we build a ghetto and get them in there? Then they wont be able to infect the rest of society with their awful ways.
You know we will really need to come up with some kind of Final Solution for all these pariahs out there.............
 
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