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Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 13:00 It was reported last week that Barcelona is to ban smoking on four of its most popular beaches as part of the city’s clean air policy.
I’d love to see evidence that smoking in the open air makes a significant contribution to air pollution but that’s not why I mention it.
What made me laugh was this. According to the Guardian, ‘Smoking will still be permitted on Sant Sebastià, the popular nudist beach.’
Well that's alright, then.
If however you believe that smoking outside is a health hazard (which I don’t), it does beg the question, don’t nudists have a right to clean air too?
Why should non-smoking naturists be discriminated against and potentially exposed (no pun intended) to other people’s tobacco smoke?
What have they done to upset the puritans, apart from take their clothes off?
Then again, perhaps this is smoking as God intended - in the buff and on the beach.
PS. Question for nudists who smoke.
If you want to be environmentally friendly but haven’t got anywhere to put a pocket ashtray, where do you put your butts?
Reader Comments (2)
It is not about health but hate and shaming smokers. When clothed smokers sit on beaches next to naked people, no doubt they will be forced to move again - or they could ensure they have pocket ashtrays with them to leave no trace and tell Barcelona to fcuk off. Hopefully that is what they'll do. The beaches do not belong to the smokerphobic bullies and they have no right to them more than anyone else.
Meanwhile, I do hope the po faced puritans pick up their plastic wet wipes and picnic rubbish which is much more of a problem on beaches than fag ends.
Tobacco is even more X rated than sex these days according to those purse-lipped prune-faced weirdos.
Where do nudists put their butts? On their seats, just like everybody else.