Blowing Neighbours smell away

Is that all it means then? I must remember that for the next occasion I see it.

Velikovsky! Ah, it takes me back ...

Ages in Chaoe, Worlds in Collision, ..?

Well said.

The OP was looking for a way not to have to suffer his neighbour's smoke. He didn't suggest he wanted to stop his neighbour smoking.

He probably had a s*it most days; that does not mean it caused his lung cancer.

The overwhelming majority of lung cancer occurs in smokers. The link is so high it would be foolish to suggest that passive smoking does not cause a lot more.

I was surprised to note that research links smoking and passive smoking with hearing loss. So my 45 a day habit might explain why my hearing is so poor. Hopefully I gave up long enough ago that my risks of lung cancer and heart disease are receding. Then again I have spent a lot of time in smoky offices, pubs and clubs so perhaps I had better make my funeral arrangements.

My wifes hearing is crap she smokes MUCH less than I do.

She used to dance to punk bands though. I stood at the back of rick bands listening to the sound balance.

Then she adopted headphones plugged into a computer.

Now all she can hear is headphones plugged into a computer. Doesn't hear a damned thing I say anyway.

Funny that. My wife uses wireless headphones for the TV cos I can't stand the constant drone. If I want her to hear she doesn't but if I don't she does. She says the same of me. Seems to be a common affliction between couples. Never mind - over to the smoke free pub later when we will both talk - and possibly even listen.

My mother is rather like that, she uses headphones to watch TV), but that was through a different cause - she had always suffered tinnitus and earwax and on a visit to the hospital a few years ago to have her ears syringed, she felt that the force was much greater than normal and instantly went quite deaf and it didn't wear off. Having deafened her in both ears, the hospital then put her on a 12 month waiting list for hearing aids!

SteveW

You can't, can you? They are perfectly entitled to smoke in their house or their garden. You will not die of it if you smell their smoke. It's got ridiculous.

You miss the point in your anxiety to defend the habit. The OP never said they were not entitled, you stupid woman. They merely asked if there was a feasible way of keeping away from themselves.

Again, your smoker's agenda is clouding the issue. They don't *like* the smoke; that is the problem.

I wonder how many smokers would complain if their neighbour put the dog loo or compost heap next to their patio/kitchen window. Neither will kill them.

I don't complain when neighbours have a bonfire or barbecue. It's called living together in harmony.

Robbie

Showing your age mate. There must be somebody you can blame for something?

Perhaps your neighbours wouldn't. But if I lived next door to you (or them) I'd move.

Neither do I. They have a barbecue half a dozen times a year. Another neighbour has a bonfire once a month or so. The smokers next door are out smoking half a dozen times a night, every night three feet from our conservatory windows. Shutting the windows means we get no airflow and is very uncomfortable in hot weather, opening them means our living room fills with the stink.

SteveW

I can understand that. Smokers used to stand outside the window of my office; patients and visitors and staff, it was so awful. Thankfully the hospital then had a no smoking ban in the grounds as well as the buildings and also in the Crown cars which staff used. At one time I would use the hospital car to drive to Addenbrookes Hospital and the smell, at times, was disgusting. Fortunately the ban also covered the cars. I would not like to have smoke filtering into any of my windows, is it not possible for them to smoke further down the garden?

I wouldn't ask them. We get on fine with them and I wouldn't like to cause any friction by asking - particularly as I can see why they smoke where they do, it being their patio, so no sinking in the grass when it's been raining hard; their table and chairs, with large umbrella, sits on the patio; and they can listen throught the patio doors in case their young son wakes up.

SteveW