Smoking

[hobbsisablue]

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 ?

If their craving is such that they can't go a couple of hours without smoking then they should think twice about coming to the game.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

Can't smoke in a cubicle and waft it away, or on the spirals, but we can still piss in sinks? Daft. I don't smoke anymore but don't have an issue with those that do. It's a fucking addiction. And only a cigarette. Usually you'd have one at least every hour. At half time is about right. Don't take your kids to the smoky bogs if you're that arsed. And relax. If you're a grown man rather than a busy **** it wouldn't bother you. Get more shit in you with the windows open on the m60 for an hour.

 

[wagonman]

All smokers should have their reproductive systems disabled in order to prevent them from breeding... just in case they produce more stupid, weak willed, weedy addicts like themselves.

JJ

 

[Bluemoon115]

I keep trying to quit, but then I read this thread, see what a non-smoker sounds like, and just think "Fuck turning into one of those".

Just about to have my first of the day.

 

[Why Always Ste]

Get more shit in you with the windows open on the m60 for an hour.

Good Point.

We'll walk to the stadium along Alan Turing Way, loads of passing traffic spitting out toxic shit.
The Kids will have the windows down as you drive down the motorway to the match - breathing in loads of shit.

Yes this is unavoidable as we have to get to our destination somehow but for a few minutes every other week?
I don't have a big problem with it. And my nearest toilet in the stadium is one of the worst for smoking (Block 111)

I will say this however to smokers - you can wait for hours without a ciggie on your flight to Benidorm on a package holiday,
but you have to smoke inside the stadium after 45mins?

Hehe... Just give it a try - attempt to not have a ciggie and see if you can do it.

I normally have a pint at the football, yesterday I ran to the stadium so at HT I had a drink of water.
Mates were drinking lager - I had the bottled water.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

I went to baseball game and an American Football game in Oakland, both had smoking areas at the back of each stand a bit like large cages to allow for ventilation. I believe most stadiums in US have this. Most employers are required to provide smoking areas, pubs, etc. Why not football stadiums in this country ? Why are they exempt ?

 

[Ducado]

Good Point.

We'll walk to the stadium along Alan Turing Way, loads of passing traffic spitting out toxic shit.
The Kids will have the windows down as you drive down the motorway to the match - breathing in loads of shit.

Yes this is unavoidable as we have to get to our destination somehow but for a few minutes every other week?
I don't have a big problem with it. And my nearest toilet in the stadium is one of the worst for smoking (Block 111)

I will say this however to smokers - you can wait for hours without a ciggie on your flight to Benidorm on a package holiday,
but you have to smoke inside the stadium after 45mins?

Hehe... Just give it a try - attempt to not have a ciggie and see if you can do it.

I normally have a pint at the football, yesterday I ran to the stadium so at HT I had a drink of water.
Mates were drinking lager - I had the bottled water.

Another one who misses the point rather spectacularly, the point is smoking is banned in the stadium it's not about other risks to health or if you mind or not

 

[bluestevei]

isn't smoking banned in all public places, that includes our and every other stadium, I don't smoke but maybe the club could open a gate at halftime and let people out to have a cig, then shut it so they carnt get back in. It might be all the early leavers that smoke so they could go home 45 mins early

 

[Why Always Ste]

Another one who misses the point rather spectacularly, the point is smoking is banned in the stadium it's not about other risks to health or if you mind or not

Plenty of things still go ahead inside the stadium which are classed as "banned" but still go ahead.

The club and Football Governing Bodies have these policies of stamping down on Homophobia/Racism and all the rest of it and I hear it quite frequently at matches I attend.

 

[Yaya_Tony]

Like fucking standing. The whole stadium does it.

And sink pissing.