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.

[nicnacs_4u]

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@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:
I'd have to say that some of those natural smells offend me more than the mere whiff/ stench of a passing smoker.

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a farty maybe??lol

[nicnacs_4u]

I just hope none of you smokers end up like me because of your habit....33% lung capacity and just basic living is hard....like most smokers you  think smoking related problems happen to others but not you.....been smoke free nearly 5 years now but the damage is done...THINK about that when you light up next!!

[ufo_investigations]

This is the sign that should be in all shopping centres. It should be $500 on the spot fine.

[the_hawk*]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

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

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It may take a customer to drop dead at a shopping center after having an asthma attack brought on by smokers sueing the shopping center to wake them up.

I only have to catch a wif of smoke at times and I start wheesing and coughing. 

even walking through the car park can be a problem some days.

and yes on occasions perfume can be an issue but very rare and you have to be very close for it to be an issue

[the_hawk*]

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@poison_ivys_pen wrote:

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.

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I think I have told you before that mine only surfaced after I gave it up, the doctor believed the smoking suppressed the asthma syptons.

[the_hawk*]

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@nicnacs_4u wrote:

I just hope none of you smokers end up like me because of your habit....33% lung capacity and just basic living is hard....like most smokers you  think smoking related problems happen to others but not you.....been smoke free nearly 5 years now but the damage is done...THINK about that when you light up next!!

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Hugs Nic

most people are so addicted they wont acknowlede they have a problem and try to justify their actions to continue to do something they know as an informed person will harm them sooner or latter

[spotweldersfriend]

Smoking is in decline-as are the areas smokers are allowed to indulge their habit-yet respitory ailments are on the rise.I'll let you decide what's to blame,motorists:-)

[i-once-was-bump]

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
Smoking is in decline-as are the areas smokers are allowed to indulge their habit-yet respitory ailments are on the rise.I'll let you decide what's to blame,motorists:-)

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I don't agree or disagree, I just know that smoke will cause an asthma attack and it isn't just cigarette smoke that is a problem to me.

Incense, bbqs, open fires can all cause me severe problems. I live through bushfires in panic mode, always ready to go to hospital if needed.

I must say that there is no way I will ever agree with any government collecting so many taxes from just one small section of the population who are smokers and doing something perfectly legal.

It is so wrong.

I just want smokers to keep away from doors of buses, shops and anywhere else people gather.

[nevynreally]

Just so everyone knows. Saved the page.

[cherry*135]

Only 18% (approx) of Austrlian adult smoke. They are a small minority. The majority who don't smoke shouldn't have to put up with their stinky smoke in public areas.

A hospital in NZ, no smoking inside, nor anywhere outside in their grounds. .. so  people walked down the street abit and smoked outside people's houses, leaving their butts on the grass verge. The hospital had to nail up some permanent ashtrays on the outside edge of the hospital building.