No smoking in outdoor spaces!

[welshwil]

i'm all for the smoking ban in bars etc. but yesterday after work i got to charing cross station, and had a cigarette outside, i was a good few metres from the entrance, when a woman came over and told me i couldnt smoke there and told me to go smoke by the clothes shop next.. can she do this? its just the same as smoking outside a restuarant / bar. where apart from home can i smoke legally?

[4getmenot]

I guess it would depend if you are still on Charing Cross property. If so it is entirely up to them. Maybe they dont want all the smokers outside their property. Bars and pubs are still making money whereas the station arent and may just think you're making the place look untidy.

[webbo3]

If you were stood on the pavement outside the station then you are not in an enclosed public space, so no she cant stop you, only if you are on railway property perhaps.



Dave.

[welshwil]

I was standing on the chevrons of the taxi rank just outside the main entrance, totally in the open, on the tannoy they announce 'no smoking anywhere IN this station' - fair enough, but i was outside

[4getmenot]

well I hope you blew smoke in her face then. Lol.

[Richie1976]

Next time just stub it out on her. I stand stand the smoking police!

[Baby Jane]

I was having a quick ciggie in the supermarket carpark when a very,very, wobbly large lady said to her two very plump kiddies "oh come away from the smoke tut tut" as she ushered them into Macdonalds!! I still felt awful though.

[welshwil]

haha bj, webbo i see your point about being on railway property, does that mean, if i walked across a level crossing i would have to stub my cig out and relight it again the other side

[society]

You should have offered her a fag. :-)

[sleepy1]

baby jane lol sounds about right

[Reverandfunk]

Tubbies cost the health service more than smokers so I think pubs should be tubby free zones. I often feel unwell when I look at a tubby in a short skirt or wearing a tight skirt with a roll of fat hanging over it....