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buzz1024 - Member
Shocking! Just imagine someone doing something completely legal on their own property - thats scandalous!
Seriously though - its not up to you to dictate to your neighbours what they can & can't do - so either suck it up cupcake or move.
There's a thing called common decency. i'd imagine the OP will find out about that if they actually have a word with neighbours. But when I smoked, I'd have be fairly receptive to anyone with problems with it. They need to ask you firstly though, I doubt the neighbours even know there's a problem.
If they act like bawbags(you also need to be reasonable in your expectations.), then you can escalate. First port of call is to speak to them like human beings firstly.
They're probably oblivious to the fact you've even noticed, TBH.
Talk to them, in an "are you aware..." sort of way rather than trying to tell them what to do. If they're considerate they'll smoke somewhere else / find an alternative, if they're not then you're probably screwed whatever you do.
Quite simply, the level of exposure to any toxins is negligible.You will have 100 times the threat from standing at a bus or railway station.
There is no real threat to anyone's health from it.
Source for this claim?
Take up smoking yourself, go out whenever they do and start conversations on really, really boring subjects. It'll have short term health implications for you, but in the long run they'll stop coming outside for fear of running in to you.
If smoking's ok, why do they do it outside?
Quite simply, the level of exposure to any toxins is negligible.You will have 100 times the threat from standing at a bus or railway station.
There is no real threat to anyone's health from it.
Tell that to Roy Castle.
Oh wait, you can't.
More of the professionally outraged/offended.
Trust non of you clean-air/antisocial lot run log-burners/cars? Wear copious amounts of body spray/aftershave? Use loud power tools at all? Or inflict your horrible offspring onto the ears of others? All of which can be a stress to a third party thereby damaging health... No? Good, cos that would be massively hypocritical.
Live and let live.
Everyone seems a little tense today....
We all know we occasionally do things that annoy our neighbours
FIll their homes with noxious cancer causing chemicals is rare and almost universally objectionable
the level of exposure to any toxins is negligible.
I know this but the smell is getting in so you would rather the place looked pretty rather than it was actually not smelly in your house?
You can always spot the smokers in these conversations. Defensive to the max that their habit doesn't affect others.
Live and let live.
Passive smoking is more Live and Let Die.
Dun dun dun, dun dun dun.
Consideration is no longer fashionable, smoking is inconsiderate full stop ! you have my sympathy, hope you get it sorted, diplomacy can severely confuse the selfish and inconsiderate, good luck
Fire extinguisher and motion sensor high power leds
I wouldn't care less whether or not they like it.
Everyone seems a little tense today....
Am flippin gasping fer a tab but this bastard keeps giving me the evils..
thestabiliser - Member
Everyone seems a little tense today....
Am flippin gasping fer a tab but this bastard keeps giving me the evils.
😆
Thanks for all the constructive help. I will speak to them and see what happens.
smoking is inconsiderate full stop !
It really isn't.
in the situation described by the op it is, and in many others too.
But it's not inconsiderate by default.
I've been stopped for almost 10 years now, but for the last few years I smoked, I pretty much always smoked outdoors away from anyone else, or on my own in the car while driving.
I was aware people didn't like it, so I was considerate.
It not impossible, and most of the smokers I know now are doing exactly the same.
Ignore the comments regarding the fact they are doing something legal on their own property.
You are responsible for ensuring that anything leaving your property is not a nuisance to others, think golf balls, sound, bright lights, odours, the list could go on and on. What they are doing is, therefore, against the law.
Rig up some speakers and play Rick Astley as loud as is legally possibly whenever they are out there, if talking to them doesn't work first, obviously
I have this problem from my own family living in the same house.
Lets be honest if you care so little about yourself that you smoke youre unlikely care about annoying someone else.
I would go into discussions with a back up plan.
"What they are doing is, therefore, against the law."what absolute tosh,mummy some oik is doing something i disapprove of,please make them stop.(Cougar
You can always spot the smokers in these conversations. Defensive to the max that their habit doesn't affect others.)Not true, confirmation bias me thinks.. 🙄
Put some of this where they smoke
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Put up a fan pointing in their general direction.
Hang rotten fish behind it.
See how they like it.
Tell that to Roy Castle.Oh wait, you can't.
It's hardly the same as working for hours in a smoke filled night club.
Quite simply, the level of exposure to any toxins is negligible.
You will have 100 times the threat from standing at a bus or railway station.There is no real threat to anyone's health from it.
Source for this claim?
The ratio may be wrong but think about it logically.
You cannot directly inhale the fumes from the exhaust of a diesel engine without dying within a few minutes.
You can inhale the fumes from a cigarette without dying for several years.
A large diesel engine will pump out a huge volume of exhaust gas which will contain carcinogenic chemicals, which you will be inhaling whilst stood in close proximity to the engine.
Do you really think that 6 smokers produce more poison than a 6000hp diesel engine?
IANAS.
Not smoking but the neighbour across the road from us put up an LED security light and it shone into our bedroom. I simply went across and asked him nicely if he would mind angling it down a few degrees, which he did. I think you need to go and have a chat with them about it rather than build up all these barriers in your mind.
Not really sure why we are playing a top trump of noxious fumes here gobby
Neither are pleasant nor things you expect your neighbour to introduce into your house and both are things most reasonable people would not do and most reasonable folk would object to.Unless you are a smoker I am not really getting what your point is
Its not bad because other things are worse? seems to be your argument- though of course you can poison me but dont make my garden untidy.
Unless you are a smoker I am not really getting what your point is
My pint is that people were suggesting that it posed a significant health risk for the OP and his family. It doesn't. The quantities of fumes involved are completely insignificant.
IANAS.
Just act like a normal person and have a polite friendly conversation. I'd ignore the silly suggestions as
it's easy to be brave and confrontational whilst sat behind a keyboard.
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Stuff that weak skunk smell - this is the real deal siphoned out of a skunks smell balls.
What did they say?
Stuff that weak skunk smell - this is the real deal siphoned out of a skunks smell balls.
What did they say?
Common misconseption; most don't talk at all
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Not smoking but the neighbour across the road from us put up an LED security light and it shone into our bedroom. I simply went across and asked him nicely if he would mind angling it down a few degrees, which he did. I think you need to go and have a chat with them about it rather than build up all these barriers in your mind.
This is awesome. Is there a book or course where one can learn this sort of thing? Or is it inherent? Just a natural talent that you have?
I can't see it catching on mind.