Posted by Allan on 11/11/2008, 4:49 pm, in reply to "cruise ship smoking"
24.148.70.119
I agree that those restrictions this cruise ship imposed weren't very hospitable. And to my knowledge, cruise ships aren't regulated(smoking-wise) anything like how airlines are, when the FAA did prohibit smoking on commercial airline flights for good during the 1990s. (and of course, started with limited numbers of flights in the late 1980s, all thanks to a guy named Dick Durbin who started as a Congressmen, and is today in the US Senate) I believe there are no federal smoking regulations in regards to cruise ships, and that any smoking regulations are still pretty much left up to their owners.
Still though, compared to what state antis in Illinois got away with last year by passing a very extreme state smoking ban, I'd kill to be able to smoke inside a bar or a casino again. (and despite that I feel this boat should've accommodated cigar smokers at least somewhere indoors) Thankfully, state lawmakers in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana have continued for now to be sane enough to resist imposing unnecessary state smoking bans on their private businesses, unlike Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, and most recently Iowa.
--Previous Message--
: While taking a cruise can be a very pleasant
: way to vacation, given all of the shipboard
: amenities and the diverse variety of shore
: excursions available--they are not very
: hospitable to those of us who smoke. My
: wife and I recently took a Holland-America
: cruise to Alaska. We are both off and on
: closet smokers--me with cigars and pipes and
: my wife cigarrettes of course. The ship had
: smoking restricted to certain onboard
: cocktail lounges and the casino and only
: cigarettes were allowed. Tobacco consumption
: in any other form was limited to the decks.
: AND I guess more than anything we were
: caught by surprise in not realising AK in
: Sept is cold wet and rainy. I did manage to
: make the best of it by trying to enjoy my
: wife's VS menthols (indoors) and also smoked
: an occasional cigar while ashore. Are there
: any other smoking experiences with the
: cruise ship scene? I would like to think
: that other cruise lines may be more
: accommodating, but probably not if the ships
: are regulated similar to the airlines.
:
Message Thread:
« Back to thread