$250 Fine for Smoking

[brettsomers]

Marriott is going smoke-free. As of tomorrow, anyone caught with evidence of smoking in either of the large Marriott hotels here in San Antonio with be charged $250 for cleaning/restoration of their hotel room. The entire Marriott chain is no smoking now, from what i understand. Where does the AW.org community stand on this issue?

 

[washertalk]

YIPPEEEEE !!

. ep, did I say that.

Slowly, progress is being made.
What moron ever came up with any concept of "smoking"? Was it truely a desperate move to be "sophisticated"? bark me out.
whether it was a cigar, a cigarette, or toking paprika, omg. Inferior products, remember seeing in films people from like the 1940s and 1950s. they actually thought it was acceptable or healthy. Sure it's acceptable to have a smokers voice, yellow teeth, and higher death rates. I feel bad for the people who got suckered into this and addicted, as we now know nicoteen is.

 

[tolivac]

Fine with me!Nice to be able to "camp" in a truely smoke free motel room.However it does pose a problem-where are smoking motel guests supposed to smoke?Do they have a "Smoking" area for smokers to use?

 

[aquarius1984]

i hate smoking

and i welcome any ban here in the uk. Sadly i only have to look at a cigarette and i get a chronic chest infection. So why should i suffer for the sake of a smoker when what they do is a waste of time and money. Nobody needs to smoke! Problem solved if nobody takes it up as a selfish hobby then they cant moan, im addicted. Moany old whine bags. Sorry but thats the way it goes with me, Nick.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Fine, then they are off my list.

Hypocrites....

 

[petek]

I've smoked for 35 years quitting now and then for months and even 4 years one time but started up again. That being said I agree with all the smoking bans. There's few places anymore that you can light up, not even in a bar here in Ontario, or my mothers house where we're staying at the moment and I've survived. I don't want smoking in our new house but I don't know if the other half has the willpower. Our last house was supposed to be non smoking when we bought it new 12 years ago and I managed to quit but he didn't and was soon smoking in there.

 

[andrewinorlando]

GOOD!

 

[dascot]

We've had the smoking in public places ban in place in Scotland since March, and all the naysayers who claimed it would ruin their businesses are having to eat their words. I think it's a good thing, and I say that as an occasional smoker.

 

[whirlcool]

I have been in many a hotel room that is a or has been a "smoking room". I've had these when the hotel was booked and that's all they had left. At a lot of hotels, especially motels a non smoking room is simply a room that has had the ashtray removed.

Plus I have noticed that it appears that the housekeeping staff doesn't clean the smoking rooms as good as they do the non-smoking rooms. It used to be that back when all the rooms were smoking rooms they didn't smell as bad as the current smoking rooms do.

For $250.00 what do they do? To tell you the truth, I am willing to bet that they will do nothing, except maybe spray some air freshner in the room. To me, this reeks of just another company finding another profit center in thier clients.

Plus, at some hotels the crew rooms are a bit tatty anyway.

 

[gadgetgary]

In CT

Smoking has been banned for quite some time.
I am glad that passed that law.

 

[jasonl]

Here here Andrew

GOOD!

 

[gizmo]

$250 is too cheap.

How about enough to repaint and refurnish the entire room?

A flogging wouldn't go astray either.

(did I say astray or ashtray?)

Chris.

 

[dalangdon]

When I worked at the Four Seasons we only had two smoking floors. Anyone who smoked in a non-smoking room was charged a steep fine (it might have been $250, come to think of it). For that fine, every soft good in the room was taken out and cleaned, the carpet was shampooed, and the whole room was "ozonated" with an "ozone machine" (which sounds cheesy, but actually works.) Since the room was taken out of inventory for a night, the $250 didn't actually cover the cost of the smoker.

Smoking rooms are cleaned the same as non-smoking rooms, but like every environment where people smoke, it looks dirtier, and it smells. The reason why you notice it now is because it smell differently than the rest of the hotel.

 

[westytoploader]

Finally, a 100% NON-smoking hotel...absolutely NOTHING wrong with that! While I haven't stayed there yet, I've been to the Marriott where David works and like the other large hotels in SA, it's pretty upscale, so I can definitely see where they're coming from. Now, if there were more non-smoking restaurants, I'd be even more happy!

Perhaps the legality of pot and tobacco should be reversed?

 

[mulls]

Loss of freedom

Think carefully before applauding losses of freedom-it is nothing to cheer about even if it causes a temporary improvement in your particular situation.Smoking bans indicate that the owners of businesses dont actually own them-in the mindset of our intrusive government,they are actually in charge,and the actual "owner"is allowed to operate only as the government dictates.In this case,a private business has made a decision,and that is fine.But somking bans are not.The marketplace will properly allocate smoking establishments as opposed to non-smoking ones.To cheer government on as it takes the rights of others is certainly short sighted-it will eventually get to you.Smoking bans in govt buildings is certainly in order;such bans in any private business is not.On the private side,if any one of you visited me at home and wanted to smoke,I would never in my wildest dreams even think of being so rude as to deny you.
Tom

 

[dalangdon]

With the de facto death of the concept of Habeas Corpus that the Congress recently pushed through, the last freedom I'm worrying about is the loss of "freedom to smoke"

Whether you want to smoke or not is fine with me. To paraphrase the old cliche, some of my best friends smoke. But after seeing so many people (the most recent one being my dad) strapped into a bed so he won't pull the ventilator out of his mouth while he dies of lung cancer, I can't see why anyone would.

 

[foraloysius]

Calling denying somebody to smoke in your own home rude is a bit blunt. I have asthma and I don't want anyone to smoke in my house. My health is just too important to me.

Hurray for Marriot, I wish the goverment here would ban smoking from bars and restaurants here.

 

[toggleswitch]

I am a non-smoker and rejoice in having a smoke and residue-free environment.

Still, there is a lot to be said for memories or a smoke-filled bar / club that reeks of cigarettes, booze, leather, sweat and even cologne. [In those days of dating and courting, smoking (for me) disqualifed a potential date immediately. Made it easier to weed-out]!

Remember the days when you had to dump all of your clothes in the wash, air-out your footwear and lather up TWICE in the shower to get rid of the essence?

AHHHH the GOOD old days!

 

[sudsman]

Oh Yes Yes I do remember those days

When after a Fun friday nite out your clothes smelled like you worked in the Winston factroy. Or mabe is was the Marlbrough Man that worked us over . OHHH Precious Memories