Smoking at the Amex

[brightonbozzo79]

I am a smoker and just don't understand why there is nowhere we can smoke at the ground. Would it of been hard to designate us a small section when the stadium was designed to get our fix? I have seen a few people thrown out for smoking in the North stand i don't know if they have been banned or what. What do people think?

 

[Driver8]

Because it is illegal?

 

[Surrey_Albion]

I am a smoker and completly disagree with the smoking ban BUT it has been banned, thats life unfortunatly, it is illegal to know smoke inside anywhere so if the club had a designated area they would be breaking the law

 

[Icy Gull]

Wait for a number of people who make a rush for the bar before half time every game to come on here and ask you why you can't go without a fag for 90 mins

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Yup. They can go outside to smoke anyway, so I don't see the issue.

I don't believe they can come back in though.....?

 

[Icy Gull]

Yup. They can go outside to smoke anyway, so I don't see the issue.

Don't think that you can get back in again though?

 

[Pbseagull]

Don't think that you can get back in again though?

I am a smoker, it's ok to smoke on the concourse, TBH it's only a couple of hours at most to wait once inside the ground, so not really a problem

 

[Fur Cough]

Don't think that you can get back in again though?

This is true, I have been a smoker for near on 30 years and consider myself well and truly addicted but do not feel the need to smoke where I am not allowed, this should really be the same for everyone. Christ sake it's really not that hard to abstain for a couple of hours.

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

Not another international break already ?? It's against the law to smoke at the Amex...............get over it !!

 

[Birdie Boy]

Ah, but dont the air inside the stadium smell sooo much better for it!

 

[hitony]

I am a smoker, it's ok to smoke on the concourse, TBH it's only a couple of hours at most to wait once inside the ground, so not really a problem

I can only guess I am reading this wrongly?

 

[Drumstick]

On the subject, Isn't it illegal if you exit the stadium to re'enter it without a new ticket?

My missus who I told she can't smoke, went at ht at Millwall to get a coke and a beer and when we came back said they opened up the exits to let you out and smoke.

This isn't right is it?

 

[Return of the Rev]

I think the stadium should also be alcohol free!

 

[hitony]

I think the stadium should also be alcohol free!

And football free...................Oh....wait a minute..........

 

[Gazwag]

On the subject, Isn't it illegal if you exit the stadium to re'enter it without a new ticket?

My missus who I told she can't smoke, went at ht at Millwall to get a coke and a beer ?

So did she sniff it instead

 

[brightonbozzo79]

yep we were allowed to smoke in a section out the back of the stand at Millwall I just don't see what the problem is it affects nobody. It is more of a problem people risking it in the concourse and risking trouble.

 

[Everest]

I can only guess I am reading this wrongly?

I think he probably means the outer concourse.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

The exotic bouquet of wafting nicotine would surely be preferable to the pungent emissions of the West Stand Lower's serial farter. Whoever it is, they are capable of producing non-stop botty burps (of I'd guess a 1974/5 vintage) for 90 minutes solid plus stoppage time. The club are definately missing a trick on this one - the Amex 'Superstore' could make a killing selling (or at least hiring out on a match by match basis) blue and white striped gas masks.

 

[Rookie]

Two and half hours (if you enter the ground well before kick off) without a cig and people moan really makes me wonder how people cope on a flight to the States or similar

 

[Gully]

Just think of all the cigarettes you won't smoke while incacerated in the Amex, add them up over as season and it should give you a few minutes extra life...maybe enough to get an extra game in before you are consumed by cancer or emphasema.