On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:25:59 -0000, Jay Furr
wrote:
>My wife, and many other people, are sufficiently allergic to tobacco
>smoke that being around areas where smoking has taken place simply isn't
>an option.
>
>We spent the last week on the Vision of the Seas. Not once were we able
>to enjoy the music in the Schooner Bar, a bar with some smoking tables,
>because even when there was no one smoking the air and upholstery still
>stank of it. I'd have put up with it but her eyes simply began watering
>and turning red within a few minutes and we had to leave.
>
>If you have an addiction you can't break, I feel for you -- but please,
>step outside onto the smoking deck, or onto a balcony, or something so
>you don't render whole swaths of a goddamned cruise ship off limits to
>people who paid just as much as you did for their cruise.
So you are saying that smokers on the cruise should NOT use the
smoking tables in a room where they are welcomed by the cruise line?
They should be second class passengers and not go to the music? I do
not smoke, but that simply is not on. When smokers were in the
majority you wouldn't have dared suggest it, and now that they happen
to be in the minority you have the nerve to suggest it, only because
they now ARE in the minority. If there are smoking tables in an area
on a cruise ship, those tables are for smokers! Accept that, please,
just as you accept people drinking alcohol in bars but might have a
problem with them doing that behind a wheel of a car.
Do you have a cell phone and use it while you are driving? Do you do
that even in states/jurisdictions where it is illegal to do just that?
Do you have a radar detector in your car? Do you keep it in your car
even in jurisdictions where it is illegal to have it in your car?
Should I give other examples of actions that are common and that annoy
me and endanger my health, like drunk drivers and speeders who only
use a radar detector so that they can break the speed limit?
If smokers smoke where it is legal for them to smoke, those allergic
to that smoke need to either go elsewhere OR take antihistamines. The
smoking minority does have rights, and you need to respect those
rights if you expect smokers to respect your rights.
RsH |