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cashman 07-09-2005 15:36

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I think the education idea has been tried and it quite obviously fails.

Quite right slinky, you can either choose to smoke or not smoke and it's your own choice. I don't think anyone is siggesting that choice be taken from you.

Unfortunately children who have smoke puffed into their faces by thoughtless uncaring adults don't have any choice.

agreed but what do we do? flog em? gaol em? give em an asbo?

chav1 07-09-2005 15:37

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although i gave up recently i started again but i do still think it a disgusting habbit but strangely enough even when i had given up i didt mind a woman that smoked

staggeringman 07-09-2005 15:44

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:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: tears have started to flow.

chav1 07-09-2005 15:53

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Originally Posted by staggeringman
:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38: tears have started to flow.

i dont get it can you please explain what is funny to me and everyone else in the class please staggers :confused:

staggeringman 07-09-2005 15:55

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Originally Posted by chav1
i dont get it can you please explain what is funny to me and everyone else in the class please staggers :confused:

its called the wit of a lancastrian and if you dont know now you never will...................AND THEY NEVER DID.:D

SPUGGIE J 07-09-2005 16:33

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
I think the education idea has been tried and it quite obviously fails.

Quite right slinky, you can either choose to smoke or not smoke and it's your own choice. I don't think anyone is siggesting that choice be taken from you.

Unfortunately children who have smoke puffed into their faces by thoughtless uncaring adults don't have any choice.

Maybe it is time to take the yanks attitude that if when older they have health issues broughtr on by passive smoking linked to aldults around then SUE THEM. Might make people think about it along with the attempted murser charge I surjested in an early thread. There could also be something in the human rights act with luck they could use. Acrylic-bob could straighten that one out.

Gayle 07-09-2005 16:36

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Well done pilky for giving it another go. Hubby is also trying at the moment.

As for the comment about the title - that was just a marketing ploy to get you all logging on to the thread - IT WORKED!

WillowTheWhisp 07-09-2005 16:47

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
Maybe it is time to take the yanks attitude that if when older they have health issues broughtr on by passive smoking linked to aldults around then SUE THEM. Might make people think about it along with the attempted murser charge I surjested in an early thread. There could also be something in the human rights act with luck they could use. Acrylic-bob could straighten that one out.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if somebody tried that in a few years time.

SPUGGIE J 07-09-2005 17:16

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Had a look at the "European Convention on Human Rights" and found the only part I think could be relevent to smoking near children is in article 3 "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Wether this would cover it I am not sure but the outcome could be intresting is it torture or inhuman or even degrading.

Neil 07-09-2005 17:27

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I used to be very anti-smoking. Know I am just anti-smoking around people who don't want polluting. After all I don't want my taxes to increase so, good on all you smokers, have an extra packet or two for me.

removal-man 07-09-2005 17:32

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Originally Posted by Gayle Knight
I've just popped out to post some letters and saw a young mum tucking her kids safely into the car. She put the older one (about 3yr old) in the back seat and made sure the seat belt was fastened. Then she put the younger one (a baby in a car seat) nicely secured. I was thinking 'how sweet' until she turned around and I realised that all the time she'd had a fag in her mouth.

I implore you, if you do this, please stop. I couldn't care less about adults, if you want to smoke then fine, it's your choice and I have no problems with smokey pubs or anywhere else because if I choose to go in them that's my choice. But, please please don't kill your children like this.

Children have tiny little lungs, if they're stuck in a car with a smoker they are inhaling as much, if not more than the smoker is.

did you use the firstclass post or the cheaper second class? i prefer first class. it is excellent value for money.

removal-man 07-09-2005 17:33

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J
Had a look at the "European Convention on Human Rights" and found the only part I think could be relevent to smoking near children is in article 3 "No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". Wether this would cover it I am not sure but the outcome could be intresting is it torture or inhuman or even degrading.

reading cra* like this is both.

PILKYBUSDRIVER 07-09-2005 21:49

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Well i've given up smoking for 48hrs.Whats next?Breaking wind and worry about passive methane gases being breathed in.lol

thindle 15-04-2006 22:49

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Just leave smokers alone. All you lot who are going on about it. I bet you all drive the biggest killer of all. The motor car. I feel sorry for the babies in buggies, so low down to the ground they are on level with the exhaust fumes. All you lot that are complaining yet again about SMOKERS,you lie down near the exhaust and you breath in the fumes. And stop flying in the aeroplanes on your holidays abroad. Who do you think breathes all those fumes in. Duh! All we hear is get rid of the fag. Get rid of the cars and use your bikes, and stop polluting the air we breathe. Don't just blame the cigarette. You won't give up your holidays abroad nor will you give up your cars. So why should smokers give up their cigarettes. Come on. Look around..and see just who is really to blame for all this pollution.:mad:

thindle 15-04-2006 22:57

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Wot a load of rubbish Get real. And get a life. Somewhere away from smoke.. fumes..:Banane13: drink etc etc etc:eek:

thindle 15-04-2006 22:58

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp
Haven't you seen the ads on TV which show babies and small children with smoke coming fom their mouths and noses? This is trying to get the point across that passive smoking in front of children can be as bad as giving them a cigarette of their own.

Oh I want to thow up !

Gayle 16-04-2006 07:40

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This seems to have turned into a smokers v non smokers debate. That wasn't the point of my original post.

I couldn't care less about smokers who do it to themselves, I don't think that all indoor areas should be non-smoking, etc.

My point was simply - don't do it near children, and certainly not in the confined area of a car. Adults can choose to move away from smokers or they can choose to smoke themselves, children who are trapped in a car don't have that choice!

thindle 16-04-2006 22:19

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Originally Posted by baby boo
i am a 21 year old girl who has never in her life touched a cigarette. my 15 year old sister hasnt neither, we dont need to. you see we live in a pub. i class us as passive smokers. if i had the chance i would take her out of the pub life and live in a normal house where smoking is banned. we dont have a choice but to live in an ashtray. it isnt my parents fault, it just annoys me when people say i cant give up smoking or you wouldnt understand what its like! err hello what about the people who dont smoke dont the people who smoke understand what we might want sometimes????

i hate smoking but yet smokers think there hard done to by people who dont smoke.
well my lungs are hard done to by your smoke!!!!! :eek:

Yeh an I bet you drive a car and pollute the air giving me passive car fumes in my lungs. And I'll bet your one of those people who fly off abroad on cheap holidays regularly and leaving people on terra firma to breathe in the obnoxious engine fumes. So, lets ban fags, ban the demon drink, ban the car and ban all flights. Now, what's left I wonder???:confused:

garinda 17-04-2006 01:16

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Originally Posted by thindle
Yeh an I bet you drive a car and pollute the air giving me passive car fumes in my lungs. And I'll bet your one of those people who fly off abroad on cheap holidays regularly and leaving people on terra firma to breathe in the obnoxious engine fumes. So, lets ban fags, ban the demon drink, ban the car and ban all flights. Now, what's left I wonder???:confused:


...and inhale and relax, and I say that to you as a smoker.

The thread was about smoking in a confined area with a child/children. I wouldn't do it, and neither would the majority of smokers I know.

....and exhale.:)

jambutty 17-04-2006 11:01

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As much as I agree that children should not be placed in a position where they can breathe in tobacco smoke Gayle isn’t it equally the same not to place them anywhere near a motor vehicle?

Oh! Sorry I forgot cars are essential to our way of life so it’s OK to kill kids with exhaust fumes then.
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Children have tiny little lungs, if they're stuck in a car with a smoker they are inhaling as much, if not more than the smoker is.
Whilst they are stuck in the car what do you think that they breathe in? Fresh air? Where from? Oh! You mean THAT fresh air from outside loaded with chemical cocktails of potential death straight from the exhaust of other vehicles. Some fresh air!


Instead of these “holier than thou” non smokers pontificating about tobacco smoke and how it is killing kids they should tackle the real culprit – the infernal combustion engine and industry.

Gayle 17-04-2006 11:50

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Originally Posted by jambutty
As much as I agree that children should not be placed in a position where they can breathe in tobacco smoke

So you do agree with me!


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Originally Posted by jambutty
Gayle isn’t it equally the same not to place them anywhere near a motor vehicle?



Not quite the same but I won't argue your point.

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Originally Posted by jambutty
Oh! Sorry I forgot cars are essential to our way of life so it’s OK to kill kids with exhaust fumes then.

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Originally Posted by jambutty

I have never said that or argued that at all!

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Originally Posted by jambutty
Whilst they are stuck in the car what do you think that they breathe in? Fresh air? Where from? Oh! You mean THAT fresh air from outside loaded with chemical cocktails of potential death straight from the exhaust of other vehicles. Some fresh air!

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Originally Posted by jambutty

A darn sight fresher than having cigarette smoke pumped into you from two foot away when being trapped in a car with a smoker!


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Originally Posted by jambutty
Instead of these “holier than thou” non smokers pontificating about tobacco smoke and how it is killing kids they should tackle the real culprit – the infernal combustion engine and industry.



Don't even presume to know me! I have reduced my driving considerably over the last few years when I used to drive everywhere. I walk whenever possible and encourage my children to do the same. We go for regular walks in the country to get real 'fresh' air. I am well aware of the risks of this sort of fumes from car exhausts.

We agree on the main point of this thread, we even agree to some degree on your point but please don't confuse the two!

accymel 17-04-2006 12:06

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OOOh is this post still going?????

Posting a thread like this will insinuate the non smokers verus smokers discrimination war.

But as Jambutty has made an excellent point about motor vehicles & pollution lets get real there are far more worse things in our world today than the fag, the ozone layer is decreasing at dramatic rates, changing our climates world wide....ask the south about their hose pipe bans, the stuff pumped out of some vehicles are far more damaging to breathe in - as been said about the young pedestrians...called children not only are they at far more risk of being killed on the roads. I dont drive so dont own such a vehicle but as with the pleasures of smoking the same is done to drivers - highly taxable revenue:D but are anyone having a go at car owners - nope! some cars are worse than others & the chocking black smoke & smell of fumes are far more imposed on people not wanting to breathe it in than from smoking. Again as ive said before to blame everything on the smokers is a soft easy target that are becoming a minority.

Anything can be a potential killer!! There are kids still dying of poverty even in UK & other things. So lets get real here!!

kazza 17-04-2006 15:37

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wot a hot topic! i have to agree that smoking in front of young children is not good for them it does damage ther health. i am a smoker and a mother to a little one as wel and i dont smoke in confined spaces around my child but i have to say ther are other things just as damaging in the great outdoors. My daughter was once stood at my side wen a bus set of and she coughed more of the diesel fumes then she ever has of fag smoke and wot r we doing bout things like that? mmmm not much. so i think im a bit wi accymel on this - not a popular view i bet but come on thers a lot more harming our kids out ther and we need to look at those as well x

jambutty 17-04-2006 19:56

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I have never said anything other than smoking in front of children is bad.

No! You won’t argue the car point because you cannot. Tell me again how it is not bad for kids to be pushed along in a push chair or taken by the hand and led around town amidst the traffic with exhaust fumes being pumped directly into their faces. You are right it isn’t equally the same – it is worse.

Strange how during the last ten years the incidence of asthma in the young has increased sharply when the smoking population has decreased a lot and there are more cars on the road today than there were ten years ago.
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A darn sight fresher than having cigarette smoke pumped into you from two foot away when being trapped in a car with a smoker!
Really Gayle? I’ll tell you what - you lock me in a car for an hour and I will smoke 20 cigarettes whilst at the same time you lock yourself in a medium sized garage with a car and it’s engine running.

Guess who will come out if not feet first then at least unconscious. It won’t be me!

Real fresh air in the country Gayle? Which country would that be? Antarctica perhaps and maybe at the top of the highest mountain ranges but not down here. This precious fresh air that people keep on about contains 3% less oxygen than it did 50 years ago, with more CO2 plus a vast cocktail of chemicals pumped into the atmosphere from industry and aircraft.

You like most other anti smoking brigade are as two faced as they come with their tut tutting when a smoker appears on the horizon, yet will happily jump into their cars and drive away spewing out noxious fumes from the exhaust likely as not straight into some kid’s face.

Gayle 17-04-2006 20:01

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I don't tut tut when a smoker comes along. I am not anti smoking - I don't particularly like it but I've said many times that I couldn't care less what you choose to put inside your body, it's your choice and nothing to do with me. I don't even mind about smoking in pubs because then it's my choice whether I stay or not. My one and only point on this thread is that people should not smoke in cars when there are children about - I think that's cruel.

You are so obsessed with your own argument, which by the way I've agreed with, that you can't seem to accept the initial point is all that I was trying to make.

mrskitty 17-04-2006 20:03

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Originally Posted by accymel
Oh pick on the smokers again!!! personally i think alcholic abuse is a worse form of neglect n largely ignored but its more socially acceptable for big drinkers than smokers these days,
So can we get things in perspective

Its worse to stick pins in a child eyes than to smack a child hard,so do you condone smacking?
by comparing smoking to alcohol does that mean its okay to smoke around a human being that does not have the ability to walk away from it?

accymel 17-04-2006 20:13

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Originally Posted by misskitty
Its worse to stick pins in a child eyes than to smack a child hard,so do you condone smacking?
by comparing smoking to alcohol does that mean its okay to smoke around a human being that does not have the ability to walk away from it?

Mmmm what extremes you go to eh? voluntarily blinding??? i think you have missed the point & arguement on smacking is surely another thread!

least the arguement is better balanced on fume to fume rate!!

I take it you haven't lived with an alcoholic????

jambutty 17-04-2006 21:05

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If, as you say Gayle, you have agreed that there is far more pollution coming from industry, aircraft and the ubiquitous infernal combustion engine than from the smoking of tobacco, when as a politician, are you going to do something about it?

I think that the answer to that will be never. Tobacco smokers were an easy target.

Alcohol causes far more misery and deaths to others so let’s start a campaign to ban drinking in public places. No more drunken brawls in our town centres. No more drunken drivers mowing down innocent people whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. How many more A&E staff have to be abused by drunken louts with their self inflicted injuries?

Any takers?

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:12

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This is very funny. Have a dig at a smoker doing something absolutely ridiculous with a cigarette, that most normal people smokers or not would find deplorable, and you always get one. My step dad is an alcoholic, I drive a car, I don't see what any of the arguments that anybody has written here have got to do with a parent, or responsible adult smoking a cigarette two feet away from a child in a car. She should be punished, It's damaging the child's health, a child's health that she should be protecting. You say don't take a child in to town, don't take a child in a car, don't let them play out on the road, BUT the easiest to avoid doing out of all the things is smoking in front of the child. Could she really not wait TWO minutes until she lit up, or put it out for two minutes.

Gayle 17-04-2006 21:13

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Originally Posted by jambutty
If, as you say Gayle, you have agreed that there is far more pollution coming from industry, aircraft and the ubiquitous infernal combustion engine than from the smoking of tobacco, when as a politician, are you going to do something about it?

I think that the answer to that will be never.


If I was a politician that would be a different matter and I would do something about it but even if I get elected I won't be in a position to make a difference to any of those issues. I'm going for local council not parliament!

So yes, you're right - never!

If you feel so strongly about it what are you doing apart from sounding off about it on here? Have you lobbied your MP, have you written to the Prime Minister, have you got in touch with any organisations that are working to ban cars and transport?

accymel 17-04-2006 21:17

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Gayle as thread starter........................ answer us this

How many children have died of 2nd hand smoke?????

Tinkerbelle 17-04-2006 21:23

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I'm sorry but to me this thread is just full of non-smokers and do-gooders bulls**t! Looking back my parents and grandparents nursed me with a fag in one hand and more than likely so did their parents and grandparents! If it had any serious consequences to health I don't think any of us would be here! :mad:

Gayle 17-04-2006 21:25

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Taken from an American website

Children and toddlers are the most vulnerable to secondhand smoke. It is found that children whose parents smoke are often infested with some respiratory ailment. It may aggravate children's sinusitis, rhinitis and bronchia, and also make them more prone to minor ailments like common colds and coughs. A 1992 study of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed that each year passive smoking causes respiratory ailments in about 150,000 to 300,000 children under the age of 18 months.



Taken from Cancer Research site in the UK

Children are particularly at risk because they breathe faster than adults and have underdeveloped immune systems. A study by the Royal College of Physicians showed that about 17,000 children in the UK are admitted to hospital every year because of illnesses caused by second-hand smoke.

A recent large study of over 300,000 people found that children who were frequently exposed to cigarette smoke at home had a higher risks of lung cancer as adults. Another study found that children in households where both parents smoke have a 72% higher risk of respiratory diseases.

Childhood exposure to second-hand smoke had also been linked to a wide range of other conditions including asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (or cot death), childhood meningitis, mental disabilities and autism.

slinky 17-04-2006 21:27

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I look after elderly people of age 90 and over, that still like to have a ciggy!! 90 years old and still smoking!! NOT bad eh??

But then my dad died of SARCOIDOSIS ( which alot of people will never have heard of) which a severe and very rare chest complaint. He died at age 44 and never ever touched a ciggy in his whole life!!!!!!!!!

COME ON!!! when your times up it's up I'm afraid!!

accymel 17-04-2006 21:30

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Mmmm still avoids the question though, all that you have posted is university statisically guesses not actual facts & only based on assumptions.

Anything can cause the mentioned illness & problems, pollution again is a factor, cancer can be seemingly caused by owt ....even mobile phone masts latest culprit.

Tinkerbelle 17-04-2006 21:30

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OK Gayle and over many past generations how many children have developed into healthy little adults even though they've been surrounded by a family of smokers ........... MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS!!

As for cot death, how often are we told as worried parents of a beautiful little baby that cot death is rare!

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:35

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Omg it's not just about the risk to the child, even forgetting all that statistical gumph, It's about RESPECT for the child to be able to breath, while mummy puts the seat belt on. That smokes going straight down it's lungs, it's can't move. it gan't say get away from me your choking me. Sod the do gooders, look at it from that perspective.
Even if she waits till she gets in and drives off, at least she isn't two feet away or less, and she can open the car window. With the hand she's not smoking with of course, look no hands.

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:39

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And in it's eyes. Then there's the risk the kid will grab it, or mummy will drop it between baby and car seat, ouch, that wouldn't be good would it.

Tinkerbelle 17-04-2006 21:40

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Yeah and once a do-gooder gets their own way by smokers simply not smoking whilst putting the childs seat belt on, next they won't want the smoker in the car at all with the child, then the child in the same house as a smoker! Never ends does it!

accymel 17-04-2006 21:42

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Cars still kill far more children a year than anything else but its ignored to suit the bandwagoners!!!

slinky 17-04-2006 21:47

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Terrorist kill a hell of a lot of Innocent children and people too!!....still letting them NUMPTIES into the country though aren't we!!

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:48

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So it should be. you shouldn't smoke anywhere near a child. They can't tell you to bog off outside or go outside themselves. The parent should have gave up, while she was pregnant anyway, and should be quite capable of going to the door or near a window at least. All thats irrelevant here though, TWO minutes it takes to strap a child in and she can't wait till she's in the car till she lights up, the womans a joke. Plus as I've said, when the mothers in the car or at home, she's not two feet away in the close confines of a car, and leaning over the child.
Smoke by all mean, but at least use some common sense when doing so. Especially when your own flesh and blood is being put at risk.

accymel 17-04-2006 21:49

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Originally Posted by Madhatter
So it should be. you shouldn't smoke anywhere near a child. They can't tell you to bog off outside or go outside themselves. The parent should have gave up, while she was pregnant anyway, and should be quite capable of going to the door or near a window at least. All thats irrelevant here though, TWO minutes it takes to strap a child in and she can't wait till she's in the car till she lights up, the womans a joke. Plus as I've said, when the mothers in the car or at home, she's not two feet away in the close confines of a car, and leaning over the child.
Smoke by all mean, but at least use some common sense when doing so. Especially when your own flesh and blood is being put at risk.

Rather sexist aswell!!!!!!!!

accymel 17-04-2006 21:53

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I bet you lot dont turn away the tax money either that smoking provides the revenue for??????????????

I dont see you saying "its ok Mr Brown we dont want smokers tax contributions" do you?

Fags go up more than anything in tax revenue yet you bite the hand that feeds!

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:56

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Cars and terrorists probbably do, but it still doesn't make the actions in the first post any more acceptable to me. Yes it proves most everyday things we do are more dengerous to our children than smoking whilst leaning over them, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable to do it.
What I wanna know is, why is it that every time someone criticises a smoker. why are they labeled a do gooder. out come all the statistics, the digs that no smokers are biased against them, and it's them that should go to place where there are no smokers if they want a smoke free placeThat person may even be a smoker themselves. Why such a deffensive.
It's very funny and very entertaining.

Madhatter 17-04-2006 21:57

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Not sexist at, all the same applies to daddy. The only reason it says female is that it was a female in the first post.

accymel 17-04-2006 21:58

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mmmmm maybe windup merchants should be taxed & punished too:rolleyes:

Madhatter 17-04-2006 22:03

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What I am interested in though is whats your opinion on the new smoking laws that will ban smoking from pubs babyboo?

Tinkerbelle 17-04-2006 22:09

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Originally Posted by Madhatter
. Why such a deffensive.

I'll tell you why, because I'm unable to enjoy the same freedom to make decisions that my ancestors were entitled to. I'll say it again .... smoking round children has gone on for generations and no harm came to them!!

katex 17-04-2006 22:13

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Well, I was always thoughtful and opened the window when smoking in the car, suppose that's why they got stiff necks and colds regularly. can't win, can you ? :)

Tinkerbelle 17-04-2006 22:15

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AND!! ............ (Sorry Iwill retract my claws soon) Tell it to the little darlings at 13+ year old that are getting p***ed on their white lightening and smoking their fags that all this no-smoking in their presence was for their benefit! I'm sure they'll appreciate it!

Madhatter 17-04-2006 22:27

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Nor me and I haven't even got children. Health and safety this that and the other. I don't object to the simple easy to do common sense things that don't really put us out though. A two minute wait for a ciggy is common sense. not smoking in a car at all or house at all is really a different thing altogether and is worthy of debate.

garinda 17-04-2006 22:52

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Originally Posted by Madhatter
The parent should have gave up, while she was pregnant anyway, and should be quite capable of going to the door or near a window at least.

Don't children need two parents to make them?

A Mummy and a Daddy?

Madhatter 17-04-2006 23:01

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Yes but we don't know if daddy smokes do we, gayle never mentioned daddy.

Gayle 18-04-2006 09:48

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I love this thread!

SPUGGIE J 18-04-2006 09:59

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Originally Posted by garinda
Don't children need two parents to make them?

A Mummy and a Daddy?

Depends on were you go. :eek:

Madhatter 18-04-2006 12:01

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It's the best thread we've had in ages, it did make me laugh, it's got more twists and turns than the big one at blackpool.
well done gayle.

accymel 18-04-2006 12:15

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I dont know what the congrats on great thread is for other than purely to windup & heatly alienate the minority for the fun of small minded wind up merchants!!

accymel 18-04-2006 12:19

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Anyways ive said absolutely all i can on this thread as has everyone else apart from repeating myself which is a waste of time so the thread is now dead & burnt out as far as i can see!!!:D

slinky 18-04-2006 12:25

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Originally Posted by accymel
Anyways ive said absolutely all i can on this thread as has everyone else apart from repeating myself which is a waste of time so the thread is now dead & burnt out as far as i can see!!!:D

Some people can't help but keep repeating themselves though Accymel....so watch out for the people that I'm talking about;)

accymel 18-04-2006 12:28

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Originally Posted by slinky
Some people can't help but keep repeating themselves though Accymel....so watch out for the people that I'm talking about;)

LOL Slinky im sure to watch out & laugh:D

Madhatter 18-04-2006 12:38

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Well actually gayle only started it, it's your input thats funny, that you get from someone that can't be bothered to spark up, to car exhuast fumes, dangers of kids being in cars etc etc. Your obviously anti-anti-smokers, anyone mentions that you shouldn't be smoking somehwhere thats it's not already banned from, and you've got your list of fight backs ready. regardless of if they're relevant to the place where the person thinks smoking shouldn't be allowed. Those points are only valid in my opinion if someone try's to tell you that you should give up because it's harming you.

I still want to know if babyboo thinks banning smokers in pubs is a good or bad thing though, bearing in mind that it could cause a drop in trade that could close a lot of pubs down. There's is no doubt that some will go.
I see more and more pubs turned in to houses, indian restaurants or even Mc donalds each month.

slinky 18-04-2006 12:41

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^^^^ start laughing Accymel!!!!:D ;)

accymel 18-04-2006 12:46

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Pms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its even funnier from a bangwagoner eh slinky :D :D

slinky 18-04-2006 13:01

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Originally Posted by accymel
Pms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its even funnier from a bangwagoner eh slinky :D :D

HAHA!! Jump on! Jump on!;)

Tinkerbelle 18-04-2006 13:16

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Originally Posted by Madhatter
Your obviously anti-anti-smokers, anyone mentions that you shouldn't be smoking somehwhere thats it's not already banned from, and you've got your list of fight backs ready. regardless of if they're relevant to the place where the person thinks smoking shouldn't be allowed. Those points are only valid in my opinion if someone try's to tell you that you should give up because it's harming you.

Again you are very wrong to presume everyone who has an argument to put forward is anti anti-smoker. I'm far from it and have great respect for the people that don't smoke. My Father doesn't smoke and I wouldn't dream of lighting up in his home .... BUT if he comes to my home that is a different matter.

The original title of the this thread is 'Smoking near children should be punishable' the part I object to is 'the punishable' side of it. That is taking away my freedom to make a concious decision of whether I light up in front of a child or not!

slinky 18-04-2006 13:19

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I think children being near me when I'm smoking should be punishable!!!


JESUS can I not have a bit of peace and quiet while I have a ciggy!!:rolleyes:

accymel 18-04-2006 13:22

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What i object to is being told what to do by people who think they have the right!!! I am over 21 yrs old im not breaking the law & whats more who gives anyone the right to tell me what i should & shouldnt do unless its made as law!:(

accymel 18-04-2006 13:29

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Originally Posted by slinky
I think children being near me when I'm smoking should be punishable!!!


JESUS can I not have a bit of peace and quiet while I have a ciggy!!:rolleyes:

You bring an interesting point slinky which would it rather be a stressed out person getting very annoyed towards a child or least being calm having a cig...........:rolleyes:

jambutty 18-04-2006 13:46

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If I was a politician that would be a different matter and I would do something about it but even if I get elected I won't be in a position to make a difference to any of those issues. I'm going for local council not parliament!
Politician - noun a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office.
You may not be in office yet Gayle but you are standing for an official office as a local councillor. That makes you a prospective politician. So if you get elected into office will you do something about the pollution in the atmosphere? I guess not because as you state you won’t be in a position to make any difference.
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If you feel so strongly about it what are you doing apart from sounding off about it on here? Have you lobbied your MP, have you written to the Prime Minister, have you got in touch with any organisations that are working to ban cars and transport?

My MP has had several communications about my pollution point. Sadly she hasn’t even seen fit to acknowledge receipt let alone actually reply. But what else can you expect from Labour.

By the way why shouldn’t I, as you put it, sound off on here? Isn’t that what a forum is for – to put forward a point of view? You sounded off about a young mum strapping her kids into a car with a fag in her gob. I suppose that you lobbied your MP about passive smoking?

If we really did breathe pure air without any pollutants all the various studies into passive smoking would have some substance. As it is passive smoking can only be a probable cause to respiratory diseases. Science is not infallible.

yogi bear 18-04-2006 15:12

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Yup, i think smoking near children is bad i have 3 children i smoke in the kitchen out the way of them but my oldest daughter smokes aswell it is bad but id rather her do it infront of me than behind my back:rolleyes:

Madhatter 18-04-2006 18:13

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I've not repeated anything, perhaps you should check back to see if you have. You obviously don'y realise that you have.
I haven't presumed everyone who has an argument is anti-anti, I haven't even said that the anti-anti's arguments are wrong, because a lot of the time they're right. I've just said that most of the arguments in this thread have little or nothing to do with smoking while strapping a child in to a car seat. Jambutty for examole wants cars banned.

The punishable side shouldn't come into it because a responsible parent wouldn't do it for reasons which have nothing to do with long term health and more to do with common sense.

A child near you should be a punishable offence, so if you went near a child thats in a car in a car seat, thats the childs fault for going near you.

You bring an interesting point slinky which would it rather be a stressed out person getting very annoyed towards a child or least being calm having a cig.......... You NEED a ciggarette to cope with your own child? you need to choke them, doesn't that just make them cry? ah you mean the smoke calms the child, like bees, got you.

Jam butty, you haven't really asked your mp to ban cars have you?, and you wonder why she hasn't answered.
God help you if you get in gayle, you've got all this to look forward to lol.

Madhatter 18-04-2006 18:32

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Originally Posted by jambutty
By the way why shouldn’t I, as you put it, sound off on here? Isn’t that what a forum is for – to put forward a point of view? You sounded off about a young mum strapping her kids into a car with a fag in her gob. I suppose that you lobbied your MP about passive smoking?

Seriously though, gayle sounding off is on topic, a topic which she started, you putting your point forward about banning cars is so far off topic it nearly beats my cash machine post.

accymel 18-04-2006 19:07

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Im a parent madhatter you aint so you cant possibley comment can you really as you aint a parent!!

accymel 18-04-2006 19:10

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Originally Posted by Madhatter
Seriously though, gayle sounding off is on topic, a topic which she started, you putting your point forward about banning cars is so far off topic it nearly beats my cash machine post.

erm related topic called a ............. debate mmmmm this windup merchant needs taxing!!!

jambutty 19-04-2006 13:52

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I have suggested to my MP Madhatter that the smoking ban was a hysterical knee jerk reaction to the anti smoking lobby but passive smoking was not the complete picture. I got no response about Fluoride or folic acid either.

And yes I did expect a reply or at least an acknowledgement of receipt. It’s called common courtesy.

I don’t recall stating that I want cars banned Madhatter. So be so kind as to not put words in my mouth. What I did say is that the infernal combustion engine causes more atmospheric pollution than tobacco ever did so targeting smokers and not vehicles as well is hypocrisy in the extreme.

So not being a parent disqualifies Madhatter from having an opinion on this issue does it accymel?

Wow! Big Brother is closer than I thought.

accymel 19-04-2006 14:31

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Originally Posted by jambutty
So not being a parent disqualifies Madhatter from having an opinion on this issue does it accymel?
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Who jumped on your horse Jambutty?????????

It doesn't disqualify him but he cant truelly appreciate what demands of being a parent is until you are one!!! Im sure even us parents had quite a view of how to parent before we had our darlings & how we'd be & how they turn out how we wouldnt be like our parents at all mmmmmmmmm quite a different story when you have them though, nobody can truelly comprehend the responsibility & difficulty until you have your own:rolleyes:

Didn't realise a non parent can tell a parent how to bring up children [oh so easily] ...or mind you why not im getting told how to run my life by the non smokers brigade:(

jambutty 19-04-2006 14:51

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I haven’t got a horse so I have no idea what you are chuntering on about accymel.

garinda 19-04-2006 14:58

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Who is your M.P. Jambutty, Janet Anderson?

When I've had no reply to a question, which I didn't last year from Conservative candidate James Mawdsley, I found as soon as I mentioned I'd posted about the lack of response on a local forum, my questions were answered pronto, ableit unsatisfactorily.

jambutty 19-04-2006 15:03

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Yes that’s her garinda but she is my MP be default. I didn’t vote for her.

Madhatter 19-04-2006 15:09

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Sorry, thats the way it reads with the quoted text, I was being a bit sarcastic,but I think you know that. Mp's are very ignorant and will even go to extremes of hiding e-mail addresses to avoid recieving. Of course it was a knee jerk reaction. It's a knee jerk reaction that goes to far to quick, and will affect peoples lives, some because they smoke, others because their main trade smoke.
Just because I haven't got children doesn't mean I don't know whats right and wrong or practicle and unpracticle. I don't need to be a parent to know that smoking while putting a child in a seat is wrong, and not doing it is not going to be impracticle.
Also just because I don't have children doesn't mean I haven't had experience of being around children. I've lived in a house with someone who has 4 children.

Madhatter 19-04-2006 15:13

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Sorry, thats the way it reads with the quoted text, I was being a bit sarcastic,but I think you know that. Mp's are very ignorant and will even go to extremes of hiding e-mail addresses to avoid receiving. Of course it was a knee jerk reaction. It's a knee jerk reaction that goes to far to quick, and will affect peoples lives, some because they smoke, others because their main trade smoke.
Just because I haven't got children doesn't mean I don't know whats right and wrong or practical and unpractical. I don't need to be a parent to know that smoking while putting a child in a seat is wrong, and not doing it is not going to be impractical.
Also just because I don't have children doesn't mean I haven't had experience of being around children. I've lived in a house with someone who has 4 children.

accymel 19-04-2006 15:17

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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm being in a house full of children not of your own is much easier mate, try having them on your own 24/7 ..everyday 12months a yearr for at least 18+ years or better still till you snuff it then tell me different!

Bit like a midwife whom hasnt gone through childbirth herself telling you it isn't painful & its a piece of cake!!

Madhatter 19-04-2006 16:52

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How do you know It's much easier, you don't know what the children are like or how long i stoped there, how many hours, days, or if I had to look after them on my own, and I'm not going to say.
If I wanted to try it I would have had my own, if you don't like it or can't cope perhaps you shouldn't have, not that I believe for one second that thats the case. what you've put above makes it sound like you think of them as a burden that are unwanted hardwork for the rest of your life and you get nothing in return.
Stop making things sound worse than they are just to make me look like i don't know how difficult being a parent can be. I do, thats why I'm not one.


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