[jambutty]

So we can now go about complaining to the authorities when anyone annoys or disturbs us. Great! I have a long list that I could conjure up but being a live and let live type of person I won’t unless, and this is the crux of the matter, unless the annoyance is excessive. That is the operative word – excessive. Pray tell me what is so excessive about a slight whiff of tobacco smoke.

Making a noise during daylight hours and even up until 11:00pm doesn’t bother me, unless the noise is that loud that I cannot comfortably hear my own radio or TV.
I put up with the nearby farmer muck spreading his fields. After all it only lasts for a day or two.
I, like many other people, put up with all sorts of minor annoyances and inconveniences and even some major ones at times.
Fireworks.
Noisy kids on the street.
Noisy and smelly barbecues next door.
DIY work.
The list goes on and on.

The modern trend is to tar everyone with the same brush shakermaker but I accept that there will be many, many non smokers who don’t give a hoot about what someone does in their own home.

However I do have a legitimate complaint against vehicles. Come round to my flat at around 8:30am then around 12:00noon and finally at around 3:15pm. The air is thick with vehicle exhaust fumes from the cars driven by parents collecting their little darlings from school across the road. Except that they are not so little being 12 years of age and older and fully capable of walking home or catching a bus. On calm days those fumes linger for hours and in spite of having all my windows and doors shut they still manage to stink my flat out.

As you garinda and you guru point out that kids have no choice if their parents smoke in the home. But they also have no choice but to breathe in disgusting, revolting and poisonous vehicle exhaust fumes, yet no on is complaining about them or more importantly doing anything about them.

It is really a case of double standards.