*SMOKING IN THE STADIUM*

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

i dont spend a second more in there than i have too. 2 mins max, thats long enough for my clothes to stink of smoke and to breathe in quite a lot of your cancer ridden smoke, which i dont want to do. Im going to speak to the club about it anyway, then it will be sorted wont it!!!

I went in the toilets on Saturday for a number 2 and someone had peed on the seat.
Could you please relay my complaint to the club with yours
Thanks..

Don't you pad the water out?
And if you don't frimp the seat you deserve wet legs IMO

 

[law74]

well im glad that we agree on the first bit, but the bowl is an enclosed area, it has 4 walls and a partial roof, also no wind really blows through so the smoke would just linger around. here is what i propose, 4 areas, 1 at each end of the ground where people are allowed to go and smoke if they wish to, this area would be 4 fences and no roof as this is what the law states and would be accossed through one of the exits in each stand. Solution, smokers and non smokers are happy and everyone can go for a piss without breathing in smoke and also the queues would reduce by half. what do you recon???

What I reckon is that its statements like the one above which make smokers suspect that the anti-smoking lobby are just out to get them! You can't honestly tell me that you consider an area in which you could quite literally fit a football field to be an enclosed area?

Have you read the statement in its enterity?
Over the last couple of pages the majority seem to be trying to find a realistic position where those that wish / need a fix of nico to calm their nerves that watching MCFC brings on us all a place to feed that need without inflicting others that resort to other methods to calm their nerves.

 

[Ducado]

Please can people refrain from abusive language, it is a very emotive subject on here, but it is possible to have a sensible debate without the need to start silly name calling!

 

[mancmackem]

Sprinklers or a gunge drop in the gents ;-)

 

[mr t]

I have read all 11 pages, but im not gonna argue, none of us non smokers will win this debate.

It is horrible in 110/111 and the whole South Stand, it really is utterly disgusting.

Lol - that's not the cigs, it's the skunk -I love having a wander down there for a snifter of how life used to be.

 

[CTID1988]

How many times can a guy say "hence"?

 

[Dale Blue]

I dont smoke, its hanging, try to avoid the loos if possible.

No idea how to stop it (wish the club could)

Is it possible for the club to sell nicorete patches \ gum?

 

[Halfpenny]

I don't want an asthma attack when I go in the toilets, I don't expect it. But went in there on Saturday at HT and left coughing and completely short of breath. It's not a matter of football being sanitised, it's a matter of what the law is. Said law states that smoking in a public place is illegal. I'm not saying smoking should be banned because I don't believe it should be, everyone can make their own decisions. I just don't want to be breathing it in when I choose not to.

 

[The Fat el Hombre]

The south stand toilet is minging, I just walk down to the other toilets near 122. I'm happy for the club to turn a blind eye to it personally. I've only had a cig in the ground once and that was at a UEFA game (no beer)

Would be fantastic if they had a little smoking area outside the ground to be opened up at half time, that way evryone's happy. Lock us into a little cage outside, like animals

 

[vonksbignose]

What I reckon is that its statements like the one above which make smokers suspect that the anti-smoking lobby are just out to get them! You can't honestly tell me that you consider an area in which you could quite literally fit a football field to be an enclosed area?

Have you read the statement in its enterity?
Over the last couple of pages the majority seem to be trying to find a realistic position where those that wish / need a fix of nico to calm their nerves that watching MCFC brings on us all a place to feed that need without inflicting others that resort to other methods to calm their nerves.

I have, but the point that I'm trying to make is that this debate just never occured before the law was changed to make all the areas of a football ground non smoking (inside & out)! Seeing as the crux of the non-smokers position seems to be the justifiable argument that they shouldn't have to put up with second hand smoke in an enclosed area, why was there ever a need to make the outside areas of a football ground "no smoking" in the first place?

Smokers are being labelled as "selfish & inconsiderate" by the OP, when it could be argued that the law which has sparked (pardon the pun) this debate was unnecessarily draconian & therefore maliciously inconsiderate of their comfort! I will be honest & say that it is my considered opinion that those who lobbied for & passed such a law had axes to grind & were delighted that they had put smokers firmly in their place! I guess I'm just trying to show the non smokers why it is that the smokers feel that they are being got at, and making the law so unnecessarily prohibitive set the tone from the outset that it was more about point scoring than actual public health!

Anyway, its irrelevant to me; I no longer smoke, have no intention in taking it up again, & am entirely unaffected by sitting for hours on end in smoky environments should the need arise. Whatever they decide to do, it doesn't affect me in any other way than I feel a brotherly concern for those afflicted with the habit as I once was!