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.

[nevynreally]

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Nevermind.

[joz*garage]

i tend to smoke only at home whilst wasting time on the computer or watching the telly.

i dont smoke when visiting or if im doing any buying at shopping centres - not even when driving

i should go out more i think, lol

[j*oono]

I agree with that too Tenteeny.  When I was in the hospital they had a mezanine outdoor area that had no smoking signs and yet it also had a couple of ash trays.

Some of the patients and their visitors did smoke out there.  They staff had learnt to be reasonable for people with an addiction.

[punch*drunk]

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@imastawka wrote:

Hey,punch, now I'm going crazy.     Post disappeared while I was answering!!

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Full moon?

[imastawka]

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@nevynreally wrote:

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Nevermind.

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Too tired to argue.  Just didn't see it

[imastawka]

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@punch*drunk wrote:

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@imastawka wrote:

Hey,punch, now I'm going crazy.     Post disappeared while I was answering!!

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Full moon?

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Yeah.  We'll go with that one         

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

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@j*oono wrote:

I agree with that too Tenteeny.  When I was in the hospital they had a mezanine outdoor area that had no smoking signs and yet it also had a couple of ash trays.

Some of the patients and their visitors did smoke out there.  They staff had learnt to be reasonable for people with an addiction.

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I agree that most smokers are respectful if they can be. And are provided with a suitable area.

Hospitals in particular are difficult for both patients and visitors.

[nevynreally]

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@imastawka wrote:

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@nevynreally wrote:

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Nevermind.

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Too tired to argue.  Just didn't see it

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I responded to the the last post relevant to my response. You've decided I have a personal agenda. I can't argue with your demons.

[imastawka]

Then try replying to the relevant post.

[nevynreally]

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@imastawka wrote:

Then try replying to the relevant post.

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I did. If cigarette smoke bothers you when you walk into a shopping centre, surely over-use of perfume does? It does for the people I know who have asthma.