Norwegian Starting to Isolate Smoking in Casinos

[wayne_trisha]

While I agree smokers have the right to smoke, I should not have to breathe or smell the smoke. I like the casino also, but will not go in because of the smoke. I've seen many smokers just go to the casino so they can smoke!! The invisible line between smoking and non-smoking doesn't work - only separate rooms or really great ventilation systems.

 

Why do they have the right to smoke?

[wayne_trisha]

I find obesity of others is more harmful to my health and wallet than a few days of second hand smoke.

 

To you, fat people are more harmful than second hand smoke.

 

So eating is more harmful than smoking?

 

Overweight people eating near you are more harmful than people smoking near you?

[LMaxwell]

The sooner RCI makes a smokers room isolated from the rest of the casino, the better. Or bans it in the casino entirely.

[LMaxwell]

That's how I see it, yes.

 

Overconsumption of food creates scarcity-driven higher prices which means that I either have to pay insanely high prices for food or I have to reduce the quality of the food I eat (quality can have a correlation to healthiness).

 

Part 2 is that the majority of Americans die from obesity-driven diseases, which puts a huge burden on health care prices and availability to the point that I could die because I can't get service as an obese person is clogging up services for those who don't self harm.

 

Obesity is a bigger issue than smoking. I do think we should pen the obese in their own glass rooms with troughs from which they can eat.

 

It makes a lot of sense for health and financial reasons. Plus sweaty mouth breathers disgust me and have a foul odor.

 

No different than smokers, actually.

 

I think it's time to start a movement to ban loud breathing stinky people from cruise ships. They're an annoyance and a health hazard and drive up prices.

 

wow

[Cabansail]

I think it's time to start a movement to ban loud breathing stinky people from cruise ships. They're an annoyance and a health hazard and drive up prices.

 

From what I am hearing that may make the numbers aboard very small indeed. That would take away the economy of scale and push prices up. :D

 

You also get carcinogenic effects from being near obese people.

[Dinkachu]

Smoke is especially irritating to those of us with allergies and asthma. We can't get anywhere near the casinos or smoking areas on a ship.

 

They tried a 'non-smoking' side to the Casino on Allure - but it does not work well.

 

While I wish they would have a separate smoking casino, RCI is courting foreign cruisers, and many of them are smokers, so I imagine Royal not be in a hurry to create a non-smoking casino.

[mollyeilis]

Yay NCL.

 

I'd rather smell cigarette smoke than hear a screaming baby.

 

Intriguing. Definitely not my opinion.

 

I'm an ex-smoker too. Just can't understand why people get so upset about cigarette smoke.

 

Causes cancer, causes asthma, causes allergies? Ring any bells? If you chose to smoke, you were choosing that. You were always choosing that for others nearby. Like my grandfather chose for his infant daughter who was born with asthma. Like my mom (that infant asthmatic) chose to do to me and my brother until I was 10 and she finally finally quit. Like my father continued to do for longer. Oh yay, I'm asthmatic! Nice choices people make for others....

 

 

I am guessing that the gamblers may not like having to leave to smoke though.

 

Since smokers are the minority, I'm having a hard time seeing why we should feel bad that THEY have to leave, when their actions cause others to not even go there.

 

 

I don't like the smell of smoke so I avoid the casino. If they banned it, most likely I'd gamble. It's probably saving me a lot of money. :rolleyes:

 

DH likes to gamble (and he's good at it, too), but can't, really, because it sends me into asthma when he comes back to the room.

[KMVigs]

Yes, you know what? Some of you are so right. Let's just all start smoking cigarettes. It's better than being fat!

[Rocketlady]

hope RCI is reading this site. I love the casinos and hate the smoke. Ohio you can't smoke inside. Nor can you smoke in the Canadian casinos. Guess what they have no shortage of customers. I refuse to even stop in Detroit to walk around in a cloud of smoke.

 

Casinos will be the last place on earth to finally stop the smoking inside. Maybe after their employees end up with second hand smoke lung cancer and sue RCI, they will wake up too.

 

I could care less if smokers want to smoke. Just saying.