Shopping centres allowing smoking at entrances

[ufo_investigations]

We all know what the effects of passive smoking are and yet in 2013 you can't access any major shopping centre entrance without passing through cigarette smoke.

Today, at a major shopping centre in Melbourne we endured cigarette smoke whilst entering and leaving the complex. A cigarette tray was affixed next to a doorway (supplied by the shopping centre). This was 1 metre away from a doorway and 1 metre away from a pedestrian zebra crossing which leads to the entrance. How ridiculous is this?  Young children, pregnant women and elderly use the crossing to enter the complex including my wife and I. Shopping centres are private property and they can ban smoking on their land if they want to but they have not. Why not?

50 metres away there was a childrens playground with smoking permitted on the fenceline. How ridiculous is this?

The sign read "No smoking within 5 metres".   Which means smoking is permitted as much you like after 5 metres. Guess what? The fenceline of the playground is after the 5 metres. Silly or what?

Next time you visit your shopping centre please observe these silly ashtrays next to doorways and make yourself heard. I have reported this to centre management and will continue to do so until it is changed. Please do the same.

[mtnlane]

<-------------------- check over there LL - just outside the door 

[lakeland27]

 i wondered what karen looked like

[mtnlane]

Definitely NOT like this but it does remind me of some posters 

[lakeland27]

looks like my auntie Althea , she passed on in the 80's if i remember correctly.

[poison_ivys_pen]

The smoking nazis have not mentioned underground carparks filled with deadly car fumes.

Something I will agree with Windrake on, go stand in one for several minutes it would be far worse than a few seconds of ciggie smoke.  One of our local shopping centres has one, I refuse to park there due to the congestion of cars and the fumes.

Car fumes are noxious.

[joz*garage]

didnt know there was also a self portrait photo theme

[poison_ivys_pen]

I like one of my local shopping centres, they are so kind and courteous to provide a lovely park bench next to the ashtray a stones throw from the entrace and I smoke there actually this morning there were several people there smoking.

[daydream**believer]

My 10 yr old has asthma and yes, him having to walk through the door lurker smokers cloud of toxic fumes does affect his asthma.

At this stage he has never had to walk through a cloud of perfume from the perfume door lurkers. Come to think of it, i have never seen a group of people lurking around the shopping center doors spraying perfume everywhere

[poison_ivys_pen]

Joe were you infering me by that comment or were you replying to the wrong post and perhaps meant the post by Laney? either way that is an unkind statement and both Laney and myself look younger than our actual ages

[poison_ivys_pen]

Amy I think it's the scents on people the perfume some others have been refering to with connection to perfume and asthma and it can be hard.  I know I smoke I shouldn't I am asthmatic though not as bad as others with it.

I find when people drench themselves it can be overwhelming the smell but I don't ever discount cigarette smoke to asthma sufferers.

What I find wrong is demonising them exclusively when there are far more noxious things like exhaust smoke from any vehicle can be far more damaging.

I lost my cousin when he was 10 to asthma, it runs right through my family both my mother, uncle and one of my brothers are all sufferers of it yet ironically we've all smoked at some stages of our lives.

Bump I don't have a problem with Red Door funnily enough but do know others that do with Asthma as it is a strong scented perfume.