Ban on smoking in the street, Suggested by Leicestershire Council

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Ban on street smoking suggested
A Leicestershire council is considering whether smoking should be banned from the streets in a bid to cut littering.

Councillor Nick Rushton from North West Leicestershire District Council said he had received a number of complaints about cigarette ends on the street.

The idea to ban smoking on the districts' street is being discussed but no decisions have yet been made.

The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (FOREST) said the ban would not work.

"I am pretty sure nothing will come of this as it has already been tried...and got howled down," FOREST spokesman Simon Clark said.

"I have a lot of sympathy for the argument about excessive cigarette litter...but local authorities need to do much more in terms of providing cigarette bins and we would encourage smokers to use them."

Weekend rubbish

Cllr Rushton said his constituents were concerned about the litter problem.

"I get a lot of people who don't smoke and who don't like litter...such as cigarette ends on the street on a Saturday and Sunday morning when it's been a busy night in the pubs.

"If this litter is a major driver of public dissatisfaction, it's something which could be improved.

"I get equally as many complaints from people who have to walk through crowds of smokers and that's not just at night."

Mr Rushton said he would consult his fellow cabinet members to see how to best resolve the issue.
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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7631197.stm

What the hell? There are hardly any bins anywhere for any litter etc around Leicester/Leicestershire!

Madness :(
 
No...it shouldn't be banned.

BUT, you should have fixed penalties for people littering with Cigarette ends and getting away with it...it's sickening to be honest, looking outside companies to see 3000 fag ends piled up in the corner of a flower bed...or along street curbs.

Other countries do it, so why don't we.
 
Delvis said:
No...it shouldn't be banned.

BUT, you should have fixed penalties for people littering with Cigarette ends and getting away with it...it's sickening to be honest, looking outside companies to see 3000 fag ends piled up in the corner of a flower bed...or along street curbs.

Other countries do it, so why don't we.
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I would agree more with fixed penalties, if there were more cigarette bins around!! (in the centre of Leicester there are about 6 bins or so, well there are more [but hardly any], no where near where I work)
 
DJ Binks said:
I would agree more with fixed penalties, if there were more cigarette bins around!! (in the centre of Leicester there are about 6 bins or so, no where near where I work)
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Well that's something they can invest in then...They can't just ban em alltogether...

Well, they can, as long as there is a time frame for people to get used to it.
 
Delvis said:
BUT, you should have fixed penalties for people littering with Cigarette ends and getting away with it...it's sickening to be honest, looking outside companies to see 3000 fag ends piled up in the corner of a flower bed...or along street curbs.

Other countries do it, so why don't we.
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We do, they just aren't enforced.

I know that Bristol currently has a big campaign of fining people who drop cigarette ends for littering. On the spot fines of upt to £80 I beleive.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;12560189 said:
We do, they just aren't enforced.

I know that Bristol currently has a big campaign of fining people who drop cigarette ends for littering. On the spot fines of upt to £80 I beleive.
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Just no body 'ever see's them' :rolleyes:
 
Banning smoking in the street has always made far more sense than banning it in pubs and restaurants due to the choice factor, so I'd happily support this in conjuction with a repeal of the indoor smoking ban for privately owned public premesis.
 
Delvis said:
No...it shouldn't be banned.

BUT, you should have fixed penalties for people littering with Cigarette ends and getting away with it...it's sickening to be honest, looking outside companies to see 3000 fag ends piled up in the corner of a flower bed...or along street curbs.

Other countries do it, so why don't we.
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Other countries you can smoke inside though ;)
 
Dolph said:
Banning smoking in the street has always made far more sense than banning it in pubs and restaurants due to the choice factor, so I'd happily support this in conjuction with a repeal of the indoor smoking ban for privately owned public premesis.
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Indeed. I'd happily not smoke outside the pub, if only I could smoke inside it ;)
 
Delvis said:
And?....You can smoke inside in England, just not in a pub or restaurant.
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apart from your home, where can you smoke inside?? Forcing smokers outside will mean more lazy people just throwing the cigarettes on the floor, smoking inside with an ashtray infront of you and generally because you inside you will stub it out in an ashtray meaning its cleaner. Personally when i'm standing outside a pub, club or shopping centre doors I try to use the smoking bins, we have a lot around Middlesbrough mind.
 
Ask any smoker, "do you flick your butts" and they will always say they find a bin or stub them out and put them back in pack etc.

Watching smokers shows the reality, they throw their ciggy butts on the floor without a second thought! Obviously it's always somebody elses problem, they should be more bin, more people to pick up my butts with the amount of tax I pay etc. etc.

It's just a filthy habbit and the sooner it's banned other than in the home the better.
 
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