Front Garden Smokers!

[mayennaise]

I live on a main road and have have noticed that a lot of smokers now stand outside their front door to ''ave a fag', I presume they have kids or don't want to pollute their homes ( why don't they just quit??) but why do they stand in their front garden and not the back?? You'd think they'd want a bit of privacy??!!

[Booldawg]

I've often wondered why people never bbq in their front gardens - always the back.

[Baldric]

I reckon it's a plot to lower property prices!

[mallyh]

to watch the world go by or to talk to someone lol

[Canary42]

Why would a smoker want "a bit of privacy" when indulging ?

[society]

"why do they stand in their front garden and not the back?? You'd think they'd want a bit of privacy??!!"

I don't believe it's illegal to smoke tobacco, illegal only in public vicinity.

[naomi24]

How dare they smoke and chat on their own property?!!! Off with their heads!!

[chaptazbru]

Obviously that bloke in the ad who smokes at the front of his house as a tumour develops on his fag, hasn't put them off !!!!

[mikey4444]

Why don't people just quit ? I am 60 in a few weeks time, and I gave up smoking in my late 20's. I had smoked since I was 15, like most working class boys did in the 1960's. But it was obvious that if I didn't quit my 20 a day habit, that I would be buying 3 packs of cigarettes a day when I was older. This would now cost upwards of £18-£20 a day.

Now we have all sorts of help available to smokers who want to quit...patches, chewing gum, etc, and it all on the NHS ! And yet here in Wales, there are approx. 24% of adults who still smoke. I would understand if most of those people were uneducated but there are still a lot of people smoking, from well educated backgrounds, as well as disadvantaged people.

When I gave up all those years ago, fags cost about 32p a back.....now they are over £6 ! How can poorer people afford to smoke ? A couple who both smoke could be paying a minimum of £84 a week on cigarettes. That is more than the job seekers allowance !

[snags]

I like to stand in my neighbour's front garden whilst smoking, and wave to my OH through his front and back windows as she puffs away 'out the back'.

[tamborine]

outside 'their' front door ? I'd move from a property that restricted my lifestyle !

[eariyam]

lmao at snags

[ojread2]

Personally, I think it looks common

[douglas9401]

Not as common as it used to be though oj.