Smoking

[shelby45]

I was recently asked not to smoke OUTSIDE of a restaurant. Were they in the right to insist on this?

[Barmaid]

Ethel, if I or any of my colleagues thought that she was in any real danger we would not do it. We are not talking about an enclosed space. We are talking about an area some distance below and away from her window. I am talking about reasonableness here.

There are only very few of us that smoke and generally our building is empty between 9 and 4. On the odd occasion there will be a group of us together that will stand out in our private car park and have a coffee and a fag. It is rare though.

None of us would do this directly below anyone else�s window nor if we felt it was a real problem. We are talking about the building next door, about 20ft to the left and 25-30ft below her window (our ground floor juts out about 15ft beyond hers and we tend to stand away from that to avoid our own meeting room). What little smoke there would be, should disperse and should not be sufficiently damaging to her to require medical assistance (despite what she says, I have never seen an ambulance there).

You say it is not my problem (possibly sarcastically), however, it is. Consequently a small group of us (the filthy smokers) have taken the view of "sue us if you can prove it". However, we have actually offered to pay for an expert of her choice to demonstrate that her fears are unfounded because quite simply we are sick of her constant complaints (indeed she complains about smoke when there are actually no smokers there! She also complains in the depth of winter when all her window are closed.). So yes, I have taken a hard line of sod off or sue, but I have also taken a reasonable course and said that WE will pay for her to prove that this is in fact damaging her health to the degree she claims. We can do no fairer than that.

[herculiscbr]

Bramaid are you a typist. That would have taken me about an hour to type that

[herculiscbr]

maybe 2

[Barmaid]

Unfortunately herculiscbr, I actually had to type that twice because my machine crashed. And I used to be a secretary and I touch type!!!!!!

[herculiscbr]

I thought everyone had to touch the keys , The only speach ones that i have seen were on startrek

[Barmaid]

lol - you know what I meant!!!

[ct75]

Cancer stick suckers!!!!

[daffy654]

I've just been reading on the BBC website that from October 1st cigarette packets will have graphic images of diseased lungs and heart operations printed on them............does the government really think this will stop people smoking? I have just ordered 2 black leather cigarette pouches on Ebay for myself and my fiance.lol

[buildersmate]

Is there an intuitive link we are supposed to derive from this information? The new graphics on the cancer stick packets and the leather pouches? Are they perhaps to cover over the graphics, or was this merely random information.

[daffy654]

Obviously the pouches are to cover over the images,putting that sort of thing on the packets is not really going to make a difference to most smokers,it will however mean people that sell the pouches will have an upturn in sales.

[shelby45]

what about an actor who was required to smoke during filiming of a movie, why can't they get done for smoking in the work place??