I get what you're saying, and in no way am I asking them to 'promote' a smoking area. But at the end of the week football is supposed to be the release, not somewhere you go to get hen pecked and told what you can and can't do, especially if that appears to go against common sense.
Also on a purely financial level two or three people (your number, I believe it to be a bit higher) per game per week is between £600 and £1400 per season. That would pay for the storm damage.