I think it’s the third time I see a petition opened for the same topic in less than 5 years, but as a non-smoker I hope this one eventually gets through:
Here’s the link, in case you want to sign: [https://www.petitiounen.lu/en/sign/2423](https://www.petitiounen.lu/en/sign/2423)
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I actually don’t mind if someone is smoking outside.
I’m a non smoker and am generally annoyed by the smoke. But outside is fine. I might catch a little whiff from time to time, but nothing overly annoying.
And I have compassion for people who still feel the urge to smoke. It’s an addiction and hard to give up. Depriving someone from a good meal or drink outside just because it incemveniences *me personally* takes it a step too far.
Banning it inside is good. Because non smokers are heavily affected by the smoke (that is, they can’t really escape it inside as the smoke accumulates). For outside, I don’t see the point.
i really dont mind it, i aint a smoker, but my mother is, she isnt a heavy smoker but always when she goes to a bar she sits on the terraces to drink her coffee and smoke her 1-2 cigarettes, i feel like its the only thing keeping her sanity ATM!
banning it inside? Sure, but banning it outside would be too cruel for actual smokers IMO, its an addiction and it aint easy at all to end it
Isn’t this a bigger problem at bus stops?
Maybe we should start a petition to have somebody correct the content first.
I thought it wasn’t allowed to make a new petition on a subject where someone already made a petition? There was already one on this subject…
Also I don’t smoke, but I’m totally against petitions like this because it is another demand to forbid something instead of leaving people alone. And this “prohibition culture tendancy” sucks tbh.
Bringing in the smell argument (if the translation is right) totally ruins it, on top of sounding Karen-y that’s quite subjective. Smelling intense cologne displeases me while I’m eating, so does sweat (or urine, at times, on our nice terraces on rue de Strasbourg) but I suck it up.
Patios, playgrounds, bus stops… There’s no way to avoid inhaling smoke on the streets as of now. I have respiratory issues and this burns my throat so much I lose my voice. Let aside the fact that I don’t want to add another cancer-trigger to my life. Other countries banned this long ago, it’s backwards.
During the warmer days, I was sitting in a restaurant and had a view out to the terrace and saw a couple with their two kids eating at a table and getting covered in cigarette smoke from the 2 oblivious smokers behind them. It was due to the wind so not a lot the family could do. Smokers could have stepped away from the table if they want a quick puff.
There are a surprising number of smokers here. I don’t think these sort of initiatives will change their behaviour. As a non smoker outside it really doesn’t bother me.
you got the finger, now you want the arm.
Yeah, ban this, ban that, sex should also be banned. You could hurt your back. C’mon,I am a smoker myself, and I have no problem to even walk 20 meters away from non smokers chatting outside a restaurant. A little respect for each other and problems solve themselves. A witch-hunt on smokers solves not the problem.
“Stop being a Karen smoking is already banned in so many places”
I’m sorry but this is such a bad take. I think smoking is way too normalized in our society and it shouldn’t be. Smokers don’t realize how far the stink of smoke actually carries, and it’s been proven to linger, even outside, not to mention all of the fucking cigarette buds on the ground everywhere (seriously, why is it acceptable to throw cigarettes on the ground?? It’s fucking LITTER, don’t fucking chuck it on the ground for fucks sake).
Like why do smokers just get the right to straight up pollute the air? Why is that a thing? Why do I have to be put at risk of cancer due do second hand smoking because of someone else’s addiction? Because of someone else’s vice? I just can’t bring myself to understand that. Smokers don’t just affect their own health, but they also inconvenience and actively harm everyone else but they somehow just get a pass.
I‘m all for the cause, but can‘t bring myself to sign a petition with that many grammatic errors.
If I’m going out for dinner at a restaurant to eat on a terrace, it’s because I want to eat in the fresh outside air and not disgusting and lung damaging smoke. I don’t care if anyone smokes as long as it is not forced upon me. Signed.
But strange enough, reading through the posts. No one complains about smoking at concerts. As soon as the lights go out the smell of weed fills the air.
I’d sign a petition to not ban it. Should be up to the establishment whether to ban it
Signed, but I had to search for it outside of reddit, because it was crashing. Perhaps because my default browser is duckduck…
just forbid it everywhere