Smoking

Why can't people just accept that smoking in the stadium is banned. If someone gets a stadium ban having been caught smoking in the bogs or anywhere else for that matter it's there own fault. It doesn't matter if someone has grassed them up if they weren't smoking they wouldn't get banned. I know Showsec aren't the best but why do people think it's acceptable to give them grief when they are only doing their jobs. If you do get a ban for smoking don't blame someone else take responsibility for your actions.
 
Trolleyhead said:
Your point is that smoking is banned in the stadium end so it should be stopped end of story. But you have a different view on standing, which is also banned. So its not about what is banned, its about what you don't like.
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Continuous standing and blcoking the view of others who are either less able to stand or simply don't want to stand is not acceptable. They have paid for their tickets and are entitled to a view of the game. Oh, and by the way, smoking is still banned.
 
hobbsisablue said:
Continuous standing and blcoking the view of others who are either less able to stand or simply don't want to stand is not acceptable. They have paid for their tickets and are entitled to a view of the game. Oh, and by the way, smoking is still banned.
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I am not that bothered to be honest. Don't smoke and never have.
 
The gents nearest 117 at half time v Bournemouth were ok. I popped in around 40 minutes to avoid the queues and nobody appeared to have been smoking. Personally think everyone caught having a cheeky cig should be banned for three matches. It's antisocial.
 
big phil said:
IBH, i know how tortuous those plane journeys are, I've been a smoker for 35 years!
I don't think those cravings ever go away, but well done for packing up mate. Hopefully one day soon I will find the willpower to get out of the leper colony myself!
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They do eventually go away about 20 years since I packed in no problems now it's dirty ashtrays I can't stand.
 
Pell not Pep ;-) said:
Maybe your referring to when; (me as the steward), was making the effort to clear the new toilets of smoking so that all fans could have a quick wee while breathing normally. You could be the bloke who had a go because of fans openly snorting coke which I didnt see. Anyway..one problem at a time. The guy wasnt kicked out. He was the first one i saw smoking so was reminded of his responsibility. To then (against West Ham), be turned on by approx 20 idiots for doing my job was pathetic. To be asked "Are you a Munich?" after an ex city goalkeeper died in that crash, (not to mention the suffering the families of utd players families went through) was pretty stupid? So im a Utd fan because I want to allow everyone to breathe normally? A bunch of 'big men round their mates'. Think of the poor young kids having to smell & breathe that poison.
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Perhaps my words were in the wrong order to convey my meaning, but it wasn't a criticism of the individual steward(s) or of the rules.

Personally I do not smoke (I used to though), personally I hate using the bogs at half time due to the smoke in there and personally I appreciate that the stewards have a thankless task when trying to enforce a rule that is there for the protection and benefit of the majority who don't smoke.

What I was trying to point out was that one lad was being chucked out (you have corrected me there) whilst several others were consuming class A substances. One or two stewards cannot 'police' the toilets properly, and I appreciate the role you guys do - for starters I wouldn't want to have to confront some beered up, coked up neanderthal who cannot go an hour and a half without a cigarette, particularly if he is with a bunch of similar mates/family with him who all feel they are hard done by that the safety certificate for the stadium and all 54000 people inside it state that smoking is not allowed.

I wasn't the person(s) who said anything to the steward I saw chatting to the young chap, but I did mention to another steward closer to the food stalls that coke was being consumed in the toilets and that someone was having a pop at the male and femalee steward who were talkinggto the lad being spoken to about smoking.

As for the abuse you have received - I am the complete opposite, I make a point of saying hi to the stewards as I enter the ground and thanks and good evening/weekend when I leave the ground, regardless of the result on the pitch.
 
Surprised City doesn't provide a designated smoking area. My hometown FC has a gated cross section that works quite well. I don't smoke any more but never had a problem popping out for quick one. It's funny how people scream for acceptance and then will openly haze a sub group of people for a lifestyle choice. Nothing wrong with that....
 
yankcitizen76 said:
Surprised City doesn't provide a designated smoking area. My hometown FC has a gated cross section that works quite well. I don't smoke any more but never had a problem popping out for quick one. It's funny how people scream for acceptance and then will openly haze a sub group of people for a lifestyle choice. Nothing wrong with that....
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The whole campus is a no smoking area (officially)
 
For the benefit of all those on this thread who are short sighted, hard of hearing, struggling with English or a little confused.

SMOKING INSIDE THE STADIUM IS BANNED. THIS MEANS ITS AGAINST THE LAW. IF IT CARRIES ON THE CLUB AND SMOKERS WILL BE FINED BY THE COUNCIL WHO ARE LEGALLY BOUND TO UPHOLD THE LAW.
 
Pell not Pep ;-) said:
For the benefit of all those on this thread who are short sighted, hard of hearing, struggling with English or a little confused.

SMOKING INSIDE THE STADIUM IS BANNED. THIS MEANS ITS AGAINST THE LAW. IF IT CARRIES ON THE CLUB AND SMOKERS WILL BE FINED BY THE COUNCIL WHO ARE LEGALLY BOUND TO UPHOLD THE LAW.
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So smoking will be banned in City Square?
It is against the law to smoke in enclosed spaces, this does not include the spirals were it is council bylaws that ban smoking.
It is also against the law to enter a sporting arena under the influence of alcohol & persistent standing is outlawed.
If we want a smoke free toilet experience then provide a couple of smoking pens like quite a few other clubs have for people on level 1 & get the council to apply their bylaws with the spirals the same as they are applied in other council owned open spaces like picc gardens (i.e. not applied)
No one having to breathe in second hand smoke and everyone happy (heck, it might even encourage more to stay to the end)
 
Pell not Pep ;-) said:
For the benefit of all those on this thread who are short sighted, hard of hearing, struggling with English or a little confused.

SMOKING INSIDE THE STADIUM IS BANNED. THIS MEANS ITS AGAINST THE LAW. IF IT CARRIES ON THE CLUB AND SMOKERS WILL BE FINED BY THE COUNCIL WHO ARE LEGALLY BOUND TO UPHOLD THE LAW.
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For those on this site who totally uphold the law(ooohhh), whether it be doing 30 in a 30, not saying black jack, snowflake or gayboy, totally upholding the law...just fuk off...you have got your way and demolished society..prix...but there are still me(s) out there:)
 
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Fuckin disgusting today around 115-116 at half time. I tried 2 toilets and both had smoke bellowing out of them. I had to come out of the queue on both occasions and ended up goin in the disabled toilet. My clothes still stunk of it.
 
First time I've seen smoking going on in the bogs behind 314/315 only 3/4 but from acorns and all that. The club should put those showsec guys from 109 in there, it'd solve at least one problem.

When I was in level one there were other bogs to go to there's no choice up there.
 
I think the sensible thing would be to allow smokers on the lower tier to go outside if they want to smoke at half time.
Second and third use the spirals.

I don't smoke but don't have an issue of going into a smoke filled toilet for 5 minutes either. Is hardly the end of the world. Some of the posts from the non-smokers are melodramatic to say the least.
 
I remember at Reading away,the game after Mancini had been sacked, they opened the gates at half time and let everybody who fancied a cig go outside.

People seem to find it outrageous that people smoke in the toilets, rather than finding it ridiculous that they have very little other choice should they crave a cigarette.

Where is the harm in allowing the people that smoke to go outside in some form of smoking section that can be monitored by stewards ?
 
warpig said:
I think the sensible thing would be to allow smokers on the lower tier to go outside if they want to smoke at half time.
Second and third use the spirals.

I don't smoke but don't have an issue of going into a smoke filled toilet for 5 minutes either. Is hardly the end of the world. Some of the posts from the non-smokers are melodramatic to say the least.
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For fucks sake, they're being told they can't have a fag for two fucking hours!!
 
Anybody who stands in the bogs smoking while kids are there is a utter **** and deserves banning, no ifs or buts, someone should take the club to court, that would make them sort it out

Just have a smoking area, seems easy enough
 
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