Monday, April 12, 2010

a post for militant anti-smokers



I've come up with a simple and mutually satisfactory plan to prevent you from having to suffer the indignity of walking through the clouds of smoke from helpless addicts gathered around the doorway of the office/pub/shop/building/restaurant. It is guaranteed to keep you smelling great.

If smokers were forced to indulge in their filthy habit in designated zones, well away from anywhere that you might wish to occasionally be then you would not have to be subjected to the smell of smoke. Obviously these designated areas would have to be indoors to prevent the possibility of stray smoke contaminating your clothes with its foul stench. Signs could be placed all around the areas to prevent the unwary non-smoker from accidentally entering the foul and foetid atmosphere. No longer would you have to suffer the indignity of even seeing the evil smokers from engaging in their objectionable past-time.

These designated areas would need a name .. .. .. how about Smoking Rooms? Every building could be forced to have one (tough new legislation would be required). If they prove successful then you could even campaign to have a similar system on trains with a smoking carriage. Smokers that smell of tobacco, even when they are not engaging in their habit, would never offend your nostrils again.

5 comments:

Uncle Marvo said...

Naaah, that'll never catch on.

Dick Puddlecote said...

It's worth a try, I suppose. Sad that we have to indulge interfering anti-smokers with such measures but, hey ...

;-)

Anonymous said...

I can tell you what the arguments deployed against this are:

i) An employee will have to go in the room to clean it. There is no safe level of ETS and it can linger for hours - days even.

ii) Smoke will leak out of the smoking room.

My proposal that smoking clubs staffed by volunteer smoking members should be permitted has never attracted a coherent negative response.

PT Barnum said...

Radical! Has to be an improvement for distressed anti-smokers on the cattle pen I recently encountered at Waterloo Station. Their anxiety from across the road (with its bus stops and taxi rank) was palpable. All those darting little glances and hunched shoulders are very damaging to health.

Anonymous said...

There are many ways of making
bars, which are popular with non smokers,quite unpleasant.I can think of a few which would have
the health freaks praying for the
smoke again. I am sure many of the readers have quite a few unpleasant
suggestions.

Tip. Keep an eye open for dog walkers,I'lle leave the rest to your imagination.


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