I am sick of having to inhale the dangerous and toxic smoke of scores of hurriedly smoked cigarettes every time I am brave enough to use the toilets in the Lower North. I am not sure what it is like elsewhere in the stadium but the Club needs to take a zero tolerance approach to this.
Smoking in a public place is illegal and it is the responsibility of the Club to enforce this law. Spray painting warnings without taking action is pointless.
With the advent of e-cigarettes there is an alternative for smokers which is not dangerous to others.
Stub It Out Charlton!
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I get that it's difficult to allow fans out, given the position of the ground, but no reason why the club can't allocate space behind the East and give people the chance to re-locate if they really can't, sadly, cope without a fag for a couple of hours.
Get the rest of it though. I hate smoking, but I'm old enough to remember smoking at football, in pubs, on trains, down the tube, etc, and I don't remember it bothering me as much then as it would now.
For the record, I am a non smoker who believe that smokers should have a place to smoke.
As an ex smoker who would admit to previously having a crafty in the bogs at ht, I can see both sides.
Even then as a smoker all I wanted was the club to open the gate by the NE section and partition off an area with two stewards. And then after doing that, go hard on any that still insist on smoking in the bogs.
I'm like Off_it in that I remember what it was like when people were able to smoke everywhere. A friend & I had to search our Cannon St train every night for the one single section ( the carriage that was split into single cabins) that was the NON-smoker.
I like the fact that I can have a night out now and not smell cigarette smoke on my clothes the next day. I think it has worked very well, where people understand the law and that seems to be about 99% of the places I know.
Why should The Valley be the exception? As ME14 says, her husband is a heavy smoker and can manage to abstain for two hours. No reason why others can't, but they obviously think they're special (needs).
You are right though about not having to endure the smell of smoke during a night out, but you still have to walk through a wall of smoke to get into most pubs now.
In terms of the here and now, it's a huge improvement as far as I'm concerned and, I have to say, a number of smokers I know.
Smoking will never be made illegal as billions and billions are made through taxing it. Of course, then people will moan about the 'burden on the NHS' even though costs are very easily covered. Or they should be, God knows where all that cash goes.
Drinking beer and watching Charlton are enough to make anyone chain smoke.