"Cruises" wrote in message
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> Atcually the best chance of that happening is when they finally BAN
SMOKING
> on the ships. That will effectly BAN SMOKERS from any of the ships and BAN
> SMOKERS DOLLARS from any of the ships which will Significantly increase
> cruise fares across the board (exponentially) which will reduce some of
the
> less die hard cruisers which will prevent more dollars being spent which
> will require more rate increases ........ well not hard to figure out the
> rest of the tale.
I don't know. Even in municipalities which have not banned smoking in
restaurants, many restaurants have gone entirely non-smoking and seem to be
surviving quite well. OTOH, I know one bar owner who had to stop serving
sandwiches after Florida banned smoking in "restaurants". Most of his
clients are smokers and to keep his regular customers he had to give up
serving food. The booze was more profitable than the sandwiches. Banning
smoking onboard except in designated smoking rooms seems to me to be a bit
extreme but the cruise line probably believes that this makes good economic
sense for them.
Now if the cruise line banned alcohol they'd go bust in a New York second.
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Donald R. Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net
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