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Jimbo:
If I am sitting smoking at an outside table and somebody comes and sits next me and then starts moaning I will suggest that they relocate.

In a crowded place unless lots of nearby people are smoking I will not smoke.

I always try to sit as far away from others as to make the potential density of any smoke negligible to zero.

I will not smoke while my neighbours are eating. I will always attempt to sit at the downwind end of the area.

That strikes me as a reasonable, civilised, and sensitive approach. Crushing other people's property does not.

I gave up smoking for four years and during that time never once complained about people smoking - in fact I found it strangely warming. Militant ex-smokers are, in my opinion, hypocritical triumphalists.

Since the Stalinist removal of freedom for bars to decide whether or not to permit smoking I have met some really great people as we sit outside under space heaters. Smoking is not always anti-social.

D@G:

--- Quote from: Jimbo on March 29, 2013, 03:47:01 PM ---I gave up smoking for four years and during that time never once complained about people smoking - in fact I found it strangely warming. Militant ex-smokers are, in my opinion, hypocritical triumphalists.

--- End quote ---

I view this very differently from you. I view it as somebody who failed to keep their quit and is taking out their own failures on those who have succeeded.

Jimbo:
If you're talking about me that isn't at all true. I went back to smoking deliberately, because I found it very difficult to sustain the high levels of concentration required to write screenplays.

I think it's the non-smokers who are "taking it out" - not me!

debra:
Come on guys - this is a lovely forum for Agios Stefanos Fans - I SO enjoy reading all your ideas and views - lighthearted, supportive and helpful as they always are.  Maybe this thread is about done to death now - what do you think?  Time to put it to bed?

lilly:
Yes, I agree Debra but in defence of Jimbo he has clearly stated that he shows consideration to others R.E his post of today at 2.47pm and quite rightly points out if someone comes and sits near him when they are aware that he is smoking then it should be they who relocate and I also think the 'crushing of cigarettes' is what got peoples backs up, nobody has the right to do that and tbh this would only be done to those deemed an easy target such as the elderly because nobody in the right mind would try that one on with a strapping 6ft bloke unless of course they want to spend their holiday in hospital or wrapped around the nearest lampost.
Those who are complaining about smoking obviously catch a plane to their destination and most probably own a car both of which pollute the atmosphere and cause health problems but the most important thing is that the smokers who have commented on this thread have all said that they would and do show courtesy without being asked to do so, it is the attempt to treat people with aggression and dictation that irks people.

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