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.

[freddie*rooster]

As an ex smoker, my belief is, the majority of these people who do this don't realize how offensive their cigarette stench is. I didn't realize how stinky it was until I quit.

[lionrose.7]

I actually think some one smelling of beer is worse them Cig smoke

[joz*garage]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I actually think some one smelling of beer is worse them Cig smoke

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the tree lopper's offsider was bludging chatting to me while i was fixing the tap work his boss ***beeped*** up

he said; geeze mate you stink of beer

i said nah dont be stupid, its the metho im using in prep for the pvc piping before glueing, lol

(hmm, i wonder how m.f.poster's doggies doing?

[nevynreally]

Okay, the penny dropped with a loud thud. Imastawka is Iza? LOL

I was posting about the topic, while I agree cig smoke is awful to walk through, I find the perfume is worse, and while I don't suffer from asthma, people I know who do say perfume is worse.

[crystal**flake]

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@freddie*rooster wrote:

As an ex smoker, my belief is, the majority of these people who do this don't realize how offensive their cigarette stench is. I didn't realize how stinky it was until I quit.

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It was one of the reasons why I stopped smoking, I could smell it on my children.

[purple_haize]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

I actually think some one smelling of beer is worse them Cig smoke

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But someone smelling of beer doesnt affect a person who has asthma, and neither does perfume.

[purple_haize]

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@nevynreally wrote:

Okay, the penny dropped with a loud thud. Imastawka is Iza? LOL

I was posting about the topic, while I agree cig smoke is awful to walk through, I find the perfume is worse, and while I don't suffer from asthma, people I know who do say perfume is worse.

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I think you have your posters mixed up, this isnt iza.

[imastawka]

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@purple_haize wrote:

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@nevynreally wrote:

Okay, the penny dropped with a loud thud. Imastawka is Iza? LOL

I was posting about the topic, while I agree cig smoke is awful to walk through, I find the perfume is worse, and while I don't suffer from asthma, people I know who do say perfume is worse.

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I think you have your posters mixed up, this isnt iza.

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Iza might even be insulted. lol.  Truce nev. A misunderstanding perhaps.

I have asthma and only a minority of perfumes give me an attack.

My daughter knows what perfumes she can and can't wear around me

[lionrose.7]

Some perfumes make me sneeze  so badly, my daughter used to put on that spray deodorant and I used to make her go out side to spray it on.

I have never had asthma but that stuff used to set me off in a sneezing fit.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I have never had a problem until just recenly. I turned 50 and suddenly had a real aversion to scents.

Especially those Lynx and Rexona sprays.

But not just those sadly, some of my old fave perfumes.