Smoking in adult pool area.
 

We just can't believe someone would smoke in a pool with signs everywhere no-smoking in pool area.
I guess some people think they are just entitled.

I couldn't agree with you more. At one time I was that person who was so addicted to Nicotine that your rights meant NOTHING to me. I am very sorry for the way I acted back then.

I was smoking 3 packs a day at the end of my puffing career and opening the fourth pack sometimes. I considered no one but myself.

That being said I also am not The Sherriff of The Villages and if I were you I would call 352-753-0550 Community Watch. They will have someone out to handle the Mad Puffer Lickety Split! Sorry for your troubles. I've done it because the person puffing was about 20 years old and did not belong at an Adult Pool anyway. Strike 2. :boxing2:

Do you try to nicely ask him/her to stop? I never hesitate to do that. Quite often it works, but not always. Sometimes people just don't think and need a gentle "nudge." If that doesn't work pour a bucket of water on him. :D :D

No worse than the man smoking his cigar siting on a chair near the fountain on Sumter town square last week.
While chewing the end and spiting it on the pavers
Talk about ruining an evening out

Either call the VCDD on them or don't post. Other than complaining for no purpose.

Notice how many people hi-jacked this post to tell their own tales of woe???

[QUOTE=Mortal1;1640145]Either call the VCDD on them or don't post. Other than complaining for no purpose.
:thumbup:

I have a lot more smoking going on around the square which isn't allowed. Sad.

Smoking Regulations in Florida – Smoking

If I am reading this right, the Villages would face the fine for the smoker at the pool.

I'm not reading that at all. The law seems to apply to enclosed indoor spaces. Maybe I'm reading it wrong?
Steve

Outdoor smoking areas not addressed under Florida statute

Not really sure.

This seems to say that they can designate areas that are places smokers cannot smoke. This addresses pools.

I'm not reading that at all. The law seems to apply to enclosed indoor spaces. Maybe I'm reading it wrong?
Steve

Well, he does have bad habits

How far can condominium board go in regulating smoking?

Sounds like the smoker would have a problem with whoever oversees the common pool.

funny how the English language vernacular changes over time.

Back when I was young, when at the pool, "She's SMOKIN'" meant something completely different.

I would think that's if there are rules against smoking at the pool areas it's enforceable. Are there "no smoking" signs in the pool area?
I'm just curious as a ex- smoker for over 15yrs. You can smoke around the perimeters of the squares but not in the squares themselves like the announcement states. Is there something like that at the pools?
Steve

Not sure. Never smoked. Did inhale some pot when about 14 but hated it. And got a lot of second hand pot smoke at many concerts.

Smoking is allowed on the outside of the square. That’s what ashtrays are for!

The purpose of the forum is to be a place for discussion and airing your thoughts and opinions. That's what op was doing. Nobody has the right to deny someone that.

You don’t have to go far to see cigarette butts in places other than an ashtray. Many smokers consider the whole world their ashtray.

Post of the year! :bigbow:


If only certain others could understand and accept...your very succinct, clear and dead-on post. :ohdear:

Even worse is that they allow smoking at the outside bar area at Hacienda Hills and that is a family pool.

Ate outside at City Fire the other day, forgot about the smoking. Never again will I be out there.

There was a cigar smoker last week in Spanish Springs. He was standing on the sidewalk where the tents set up for Market Night. I complained to a TV employee who is security for the squares. She said there is nothing she could do because smoking is allowed in that location. Yikes!!! That cigar stench was wafting all the way to the bandstand. Just awful!!!

Smoking cigarettes in the US has decreased considerably over the years. Seems is is practically non existent. All I can say is thank goodness for that.

I'm an ex-smoker since 2005 and all I can say is thank goodness for that!

:bigbow:

Two things you -could- do, that are 100% legal. You just have to have the cojones to actually do it.
If someone chooses to drop their cigarette butt on the ground, pick it up and hand it back to them and tell them, politely and with kindness in your tone, "Oh here you go, you dropped this, sir.'

If stinky cigar smoke is making you ill and you're somewhere that moving upwind is not practical for you, pick up a menu, a piece of paper, a portable menopause fan (they exist), and fan or blow the smoke right back to their own faces. Remain at a respectful distance; your fan/paper/menu will do the work without you violating "this is MY space" rules of etiquette.

I have done each of these things, at least once. Possibly a couple of times.

Yeah....right...and what if they don't take it? Throw it at them?
Steve

Now that the smoke police have almost eliminated smoking, maybe they should start working on perfume.

LOL, Close 2nd for sure! And I find that men who still bathe in their 50yr old bottle of English Leather they got for their 25th b'day are worse than many women. I opened the door at Starbucks a couple days ago and my hands wreaked from Eng Leather.

I still got the bottle of High Karate that I got when I was 21, but I promise I use it very sparingly... :ho:

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There are about 64,000 bladder cancer's each year. 10th largest Cancer in the USA. A major cause is smoking as the smoke leaves your body BUt the tar from smoking stays in the bladder and is one of the major causes of bladder cancer. Might want to consider this the next time you "light up"?:ho:

Also the after shave and men's cologne!

Unbelievable to me just how sensitive some of us have become since the world has been so good to us we look for ways not to be happier but to be annoyed. We are becoming a Nation of Wimps. Bring back the Draft for both sexes and increase the age to 65.

Isn’t having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?

Smoking on restaurant patio is legal - including cigar smoking. They have a cigar smoking club (unorganized) that regularly smoke cigars at the Country Club breezeways/patios. Florida has rather liberal smoking laws compared to some States. As the OP said, there are no-smoking signs at the pools.

My thoughts exactly, C France.

Excellent point! :1rotfl:

I feel sorry for smokers that can't quit after knowing what will happen, they will be the ones suffering for a year and a half gasping for air, feeling like they are being smothered, coughing up blood, not being able to sleep, and knowing they are going to have a long and very painful end. I've watched this happen to loved ones and it is probably one of the worst ways to die. Hopefully thinking of this will get at least one smoker to quit, it's never too late to stop.

Second hand smoke causes thousands of deaths from lung cancer. All the more reason to ban it from the patios and outdoor bars.

Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke | American Lung Association



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