Smoking

js1993 said:
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 ?
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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.
 
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.
 
Yaya_Tony said:
Get more shit in you with the windows open on the m60 for an hour.
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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.
 
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 ?
 
Why Always Ste said:
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.
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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
 
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
 
Ducado said:
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
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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.
 
Why Always Ste said:
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.
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Again the point is missed, but I will give you some more food for thought, the majority of people at a game do not smoke most would not choose to enter a smoke filled environment so why should the majority have to be inconvenienced by a small majority, you are of course correct when you state others things go on, and there are other environmental pollution issues for us to contend with, but that is akin to say it's OK for me to rob your house because someone is getting murdered some place in the world.

I am quite liberal in my attitudes and I really don't mind that people smoke (I used to be a very heavy smoker) as long as it does not effect me or I have to come in contact with it, do I not have rights?
 
Ducado said:
Again the point is missed, but I will give you some more food for thought, the majority of people at a game do not smoke most would not choose to enter a smoke filled environment so why should the majority have to be inconvenienced by a small majority, you are of course correct when you state others things go on, and there are other environmental pollution issues for us to contend with, but that is akin to say it's OK for me to rob your house because someone is getting murdered some place in the world.

I am quite liberal in my attitudes and I really don't mind that people smoke (I used to be a very heavy smoker) as long as it does not effect me or I have to come in contact with it, do I not have rights?
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You sure do. I would rather people not smoke inside the stadium.
I have stated in this topic "just ban them all" but I'm also willing to put up with a few smokers in order that regular blues don't get banned.

The idea for a designated smoking area is good, but then what about the people who don't smoke but everyone in their social circles does?

A lad I go to the matches with smokes frequently... But I've never seen him smoke inside the stadium once.
He has the ability to control himself and have respect for the clubs policy and other fans.

Not everyone can be pleased I guess.
 
When i was in hospital just recently there was a guy in my ward who did nothing but fucking moan at the staff for someone to take him out for a fag. He could walk and move around ok so i am not sure why he needed someone to go with him but he must have done. The poor staff and nurses had enough to do without babysitting this selfish ****. If i wasn't in as much pain and discomfort as i was i would have taken him for a fag and once out of sight he would have got a good earful to shut the fuck up.

Cigarettes?? Dummies for adult.
 
hobbsisablue said:
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.
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try telling that to the 84, 564 who squeezed into maine road in 1934 to watch stoke.
get a fucking life.
 
Ducado said:
Again the point is missed, but I will give you some more food for thought, the majority of people at a game do not smoke most would not choose to enter a smoke filled environment so why should the majority have to be inconvenienced by a small majority, you are of course correct when you state others things go on, and there are other environmental pollution issues for us to contend with, but that is akin to say it's OK for me to rob your house because someone is getting murdered some place in the world.

I am quite liberal in my attitudes and I really don't mind that people smoke (I used to be a very heavy smoker) as long as it does not effect me or I have to come in contact with it, do I not have rights?
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ffs!!
 
Saturday - people smoking everywhere in the Star bar, around the stadium, in the queue to get in, on the spirals outside the bogs, in the bogs. Seems nobody gives a fuck tbh.
 
not just the smoking, its the standing also. The whole of the south stand is up for all of the game. £600 for a seat and i have to stand all game. I thought it was just the 'singing section' that was standing.
supporter services do nothing
 
mekonmcfc said:
not just the smoking, its the standing also. The whole of the south stand is up for all of the game. £600 for a seat and i have to stand all game. I thought it was just the 'singing section' that was standing.
supporter services do nothing
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Some chap trumped in the row in front of me, again supporter services did nothing, it's a bloody disgrace.
 
mekonmcfc said:
not just the smoking, its the standing also. The whole of the south stand is up for all of the game. £600 for a seat and i have to stand all game. I thought it was just the 'singing section' that was standing.
supporter services do nothing
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Were you not aware the South Stand is unofficial standing? Different blocks for different experiences.
 
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