RsH wrote in news:njcpe3dfg60h9dl9c3gp7u2e2gkcsissov@
4ax.com:
> 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.
A smoker can step outside for the five minutes it takes him to smoke a
cigarette and satisfy his craving and return to the music.
My wife can't enjoy the music *at all* because of the smokers. Many
other people can't either.
Which one is more severely inconvenienced?
For what it's worth, your the-tables-are-there-and-therefore-the-smokers-
have-a-right-to-use-them argument probably won't hold water much longer.
Just as chains such as Westin and Sheraton have banned smoking *entirely*
from their properties and seen business go up, I'm not going to be a bit
surprised if one or more cruise lines acts likewise. If a cruise line
advertised completely smoking-free cruises we'd give them all our
business.
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