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Re: it's smoking! (on the spirals)
Didn't see the north stand incident but did see a steward trying to call the odds to the smokers on the spiral adjacent cb stand L2 at the Aris game.
What are they like? I know that smoking's banned in 'indoor' public areas but the spirals are actually about as 'outside' as a person can get and they have a good breeze through them on the stillest of days. . only the smokers use them at half-time so what's the big issue?
There are perhaps a couple of hundred smokers on that ramp at most games and I think it was only because the numbers were low at the Aris game that gave the dimwitted steward on duty the courage to charge about causing needless upset. Let's face it, smoking is a recognised health issue nowadays and we all prefer smokeless restaurants but a smokeless outside concrete ramp open to the elements and not populated by any none smokers - is that entirely necessary??? Not as if the club give pass-outs at half time so that smokers can pop outside for a quick chuff is it.
All they'll achieve in their over-zealous fervour is to disenfranchise a substantial number of lifelong smokers who already attend the ramps for a ciggy so as to avoid any secondary risk to others.
If those unreasonable yellow jacketed pseudo police keep it up then the numbers will drop - especially when the games are televised live and smokers can just as well stay at home if made to feel so unwelcome by the self appointed smoke police.
Smoking on the exterior concrete ramps is not a fire hazard, it does not breach current legislation and it does no harm to anyone other than those adults who choose to go outside into the wind and weather to partake in their own little bit of personal madness.
As a ex-runner, I can appreciate how the 'my body is a temple' gang can be so dismissive of smokers needs but please please lay off them when they're doing no harm to anyone else.
Didn't see the north stand incident but did see a steward trying to call the odds to the smokers on the spiral adjacent cb stand L2 at the Aris game.
What are they like? I know that smoking's banned in 'indoor' public areas but the spirals are actually about as 'outside' as a person can get and they have a good breeze through them on the stillest of days. . only the smokers use them at half-time so what's the big issue?
There are perhaps a couple of hundred smokers on that ramp at most games and I think it was only because the numbers were low at the Aris game that gave the dimwitted steward on duty the courage to charge about causing needless upset. Let's face it, smoking is a recognised health issue nowadays and we all prefer smokeless restaurants but a smokeless outside concrete ramp open to the elements and not populated by any none smokers - is that entirely necessary??? Not as if the club give pass-outs at half time so that smokers can pop outside for a quick chuff is it.
All they'll achieve in their over-zealous fervour is to disenfranchise a substantial number of lifelong smokers who already attend the ramps for a ciggy so as to avoid any secondary risk to others.
If those unreasonable yellow jacketed pseudo police keep it up then the numbers will drop - especially when the games are televised live and smokers can just as well stay at home if made to feel so unwelcome by the self appointed smoke police.
Smoking on the exterior concrete ramps is not a fire hazard, it does not breach current legislation and it does no harm to anyone other than those adults who choose to go outside into the wind and weather to partake in their own little bit of personal madness.
As a ex-runner, I can appreciate how the 'my body is a temple' gang can be so dismissive of smokers needs but please please lay off them when they're doing no harm to anyone else.