Thread: No Smoking on the pier?

I'm ambivalent on this one. I don't particularly like someone smoking upwind of me, especially rancid smelling cigars, but I don't think it's fair to tell folks they can' smoke outdoors. The litter factor is another matter, and lots of smokers just don't think anything of flipping their butts down whenever and wherever they finish. They never decompose and they're hard to clean up. I quit smoking over 20 years ago, and I was as guilty as anybody of inconsideration and improper butt disposal, but that doesn't mean I don't like it now.

Got to agree with Jeb, if they are going to allow it, a few smoking receptacles would be helpful. (Especially on the octi) Personally though, I hate it when its crowded and a guy walks up and starts smoking like a chimney blowing their smoke all over you. That just makes me want it outlawed completely on the octi, but its really only on the really crowded days that it bothers me. If anything I would just want it banned on the octi and I'm sure no one will care when its not crowded out there. Note too, I'm an asthmatic so its more than just me nitpicking.

FYI on the Cigarette Butt Receptacles. They were placed on the pier a few weeks ago at the mid and on the octi.
I don't mind picking up cups, bottles, sabiki packaging, dead fish, hooks, discarded line and other misc. trash on the deck. I draw the line at BUTTS!

Trolley fishing upwind up current ,smoking down wind

Smoking, well I hate it. It took my Dad from us long before he shoulda went, I hate cigarettes, damn them nasty cancer sticks to hell. My kids will never know their grandfather because of them addictive F'in things.
BUT, that said, I cant see a smoking ban outside in the open air. In enclosed spaces, yes, I dont want to suck in anyones second hand smoke in an enclosed space. But a ban on the pier, no.

Originally Posted by the original pier pest

If they would look into putting the cigarette disposal containers in different places throughout the pier I think it would help a bit, but I doubt it would solve the problem completely. The last time I was out there I noticed lots of trash everywhere. This included everything from cigarette butts to cans, paper and fishing tackle. One of my big pet peeves as fat as trash in general goes is the disposal of old fishing tackle. I can't count the number of times I have had to dig a hook out of my flip flops, or untangle my self out of old fishing line someone just discarded onto the ground rather than the trash receptacle that was 5 feet from them. It's going to be a continuing problem without some of the regulars taking the initiative to pickup trash, or correcting someone who is just throwing trash onto the pier. If we don't do something about the problem proactively, the jewel of the Alabama gulf coast is going to become the turd of the southeast. Yes there are people employed to do the job, but with our help it will lessen the work load on them and free them up to do things such as clean the bathroom at the T.

I agree 100% with you Jeb. I had hobble from the cleaning stations to my car then drive to urgent care then hobble inside to get a hook removed from my foot. Someone had just strewn a piece of line with a hook attached to it on the deck. I just happens to be the lucky person to get wrapped up in it and stuck.

Was fishing really that bad that this is all you had to do? Next topic please!!!!

Fascinating what comes up when the fishing is poor!
Like others I really don't care very much one way or the other.
It does seem though that as a society we already got plenty enough rules to follow and most of them are there because there is an overall lack of common sense.
That and the fact that some people are just plain a$$ pigs.
Wonder what the beach people do with their butts? And the boaters?

I know exactly what beach and boat people do with their butts; it's just harder to see the evidence than where they're concentrated on a wood floor.

I am a smoker, but when I am on the pier I do not smoke while on the rail, when i sling a bait off ill go set my rod down and walk away from the crowds and smoke, and the butt goes in my pocket of in the trash..... you should see what comes outa my dryer lol