Don't you think its really rude for people to tell others to stop smoking outdoors? Shouldn't people mind

Question

their own business?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080806/tuk-commuter-thrown-on-to-live-rails-45dbed5.html

Answer 1

Not when they are smoking in a NO SMOKING area, no.

Answer 2

There are no smoking signs all over the railway stations she was doing what she thought was her duty.....typical reaction from many of today's youth 'no answer 'so resort to violence pathetic.  

Answer 3

Isnt it a bit rude to push people on to live train tracks and seriously injure them?  

Answer 4

Smokers should be made to smoke in their own grotty, stinky houses and no-where else.

Most train stations are no smoking areas anyway.

She didn't deserve to be pushed onto a live railway track for goodness sake.

Answer 5

It was a nonsmoking area so she had the right to ask them to stop.  No they shouldnt have thrown her on the tracks.  Regardless if smoking was allowed or not.

Answer 6

If its in a no smoking area then yes a reasonable request. otherwise yes mind their own business and bugger off.

Answer 7

if someone told you to stop doing something that is perficaly legal would you think its rude or a bloody liberty. chill out and go with the flow. or join the police.

Answer 8

no.

smokers are polluting the air with their cancer-inducing filth.

Smokers should put it out, give it up & stop funding their death sentences

Passive smoking KILLS!

To smoke near others is selfish.

AND If we don't stop this stupidity, pandering to the poor, addicted unable to use their common sense smokers, observing these bans to protect non-smokers, children & people unable to choose.

we have no hope.

smoking near people MAKES IT THEIR BUSINESS!

Answer 9

You know any normal person reading that article would think 'what a pair of lowlife scum' to react like that when they were indeed doing something illegal.They assualted her a number of days after she told them it was illegal so they had planned to attack her.

Are you,heaven forbid, trying to justify or condone this wanton violence?

Answer 10

Do us smokers tell the drinkers they cant drink in the beer gardens of pubs? They should mind their own business.

Answer 11

WHY WAS IT A NO SMOKING AREA?

i think it was so rude of her, she sounds like a crank but defo didnt deserve to be flung on live tracks

Answer 12

She didn't deserve that though did she?  

Answer 13

but not half as rude as being pushed on a train track eh

Answer 14

I agree, too many do-gooders with their self opinionated views marching around these days.  Don't think they should be beaten for it though - just a bit of smoke blown in their faces lol!

Answer 15

Yes, perhaps people should mind their own business, but they don't deserve to be thrown onto live rail tracks because they asked.

But if they are in a no-smoking area then people have the right to ask.

This a shameful story.

Answer 16

Yeah - shove 'em on the tracks - b*stards!!!!!!

I wouldn't have said anything but I don't think their reaction was acceptable.

She was in the right - they were not meant to be smoking there and they should have just stubbed the f**s out.

Answer 17

No not really for one thing it is illegal to smoke in a railway station.