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Travelers are breathing easier as more cities and states have smokefree hotels, restaurants, bars, and airports. Hotel chains like Marriott and Westin now have smokefree policies. J.D. Power and Associates says that smokefree facilities are now a key factor for guest satisfaction.
Make it a priority to have meetings and vacations in smokefree cities and smokefree facilities. Be sure to let hotels, airports, restaurants, and local chambers of commerce know that smokefree air is a priority for your work and personal travel.
ANR was at the forefront of smokefree travel when we helped nonsmokers and flight attendants win the right to breathe smokefree air on all domestic airline flights.
2010 marked the 20 year Anniversary of smokefree U.S. domestic flights, and the ten year anniversary of smokefree flights in and out of the United States. Now it is time to extend that same smokefree workplace protection to everyone, including those of us who work in casinos, bars, hotels, and airports.
Now that travelers have become used to smokefree airplanes, they are wondering why some airports still allow indoor smoking. For years the tobacco industry has targeted smokefree airports to build smoking rooms, while fighting to keep smoke-filled airports smoke-filled.
Hotels have typically been reluctant to go smokefree, but over time they have begun to allocate more smokefree rooms and smokefree floors. Now many hotels, including the Westin and Marriott chains, have 100% smokefree indoor air policies based on customer demand as well as concern about the health hazards of secondhand smoke to employees.
Around the world, smokefree destinations are now easy to find. Ireland, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, Bhutan, and parts of Australia and Canada are all smokefree, and the list is growing all the time.
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latest cruise line to ban smoking in cabins No
butts about it: Cruise lines restrict smoking Citing changing passenger preferences, Carnival Cruise Lines, Holland
America and Princess Cruises have announced more restrictive smoking
policies. ... Use
of e-cigs not allowed on US flights RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Department of Transportation says the use of smokeless electronic cigarettes on airplanes is prohibited and plans to issue an official ban this spring, according to a letter from Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood obtained by The Associated Press. In the letter to Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, LaHood said the department has been informing airlines and the public that it interprets smoking regulations to include e-cigarettes. Lautenberg, who wrote the 1987 law that banned smoking on airplanes, had asked transportation officials to clarify the rule. E-cigarettes are plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge, creating vapor that the "smoker" inhales. A tiny light on the tip even glows like a real cigarette. They have prompted debate over how risky they are and whether they're even legal ... FreshStay
e-newsletter spotlights smoke-free hotel trends & success stories
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nonsmokers’ paradises: a guide for globe-trotters P&O
Cruises Kicks Indoor Smoking Habit P&O Cruises is set to go smoke-free inside all of its ships from next year. In 2008, the British line introduced a no-smoking-indoors policy on three of its ships -- Artemis, Oceana and Ventura -- when the U.K. banned smoking inside public places. P&O is now following suit with its remaining three ships and its new-build, Azura, which joins the fleet next April. From April 2010 smoking will no longer be permitted in any inside areas, including staterooms, onboard Aurora, Azura and Oriana. The ban will be implemented on Arcadia in May 2010. Passengers who wish to light up will still be able to smoke on stateroom balconies and on certain open decks. ... Cruise
Line Smoking Policies To smoke ... or not to smoke. Nothing fires up cruise travelers more than this issue. Indeed, check out the posts on Cruise Critic's message boards -- but we warn you: Put on your oven mitts before you open any thread with "smoking" in the title. It'll be red hot. . . . Cruise lines, though, have generally taken a more moderate approach to smoking policies. Renaissance Cruises, an entirely non-smoking line, no longer exists. Carnival's Paradise, which started life as a smoke-free vessel and stayed that way for six years, now allows smoking onboard. But several major cruise lines have recently introduced very limiting policies, as have many small-ship "boutique" lines and river cruise vessels. But for other major companies, the policies are not nearly as restrictive as most non-smokers wish they were. It's an issue of "spoilage" (the industry's lingo for unsold cabins) that keeps cruise lines from designating some cabins non-smoking, in the fashion of hotel rooms. "It would present an inventory mess," says a spokesperson for CLIA, the cruise industry's official trade association. "The cruise lines' yield management people want the ships to sail full at all times; you can't do that if you set aside non-smoking rooms." We're presenting the policies for you in one neat, tidy package ... Fred.
Olsen Kicks Indoor Smoking Habit Today's the day that Fred. Olsen finally kicks the habit and goes totally smoke-free -- well, indoors anyway. Last September, the line announced it would gradually be changing the smoking policy on all five of its fleet's ships. Today, Balmoral will be the final ship to implement a ban on lighting up in all indoor areas. Balmoral returned from its world cruise today, and from now on, passengers
will only be able to smoke on cabin balconies and in designated areas
on open decks. ... Cigarette
smoke won't fly at airport restaurants NERVOUS fliers now have a tougher time getting in that last nicotine fix before taking off from Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport, and non-smokers are breathing a little easier. A new anti-smoking campaign bans tobacco use in all restaurants, toilets, offices and other public spaces inside the terminals. Businesses that violate the ban will be fined up to 1,000 yuan (US$147) every time the smell of tobacco smoke or other evidence such as a cigarette butt is discovered on their property. Bigger, more prominent no-smoking signs began going up last week inside
both terminal buildings, airport management said yesterday. ... Overview
of Smoking Policies by Cruise Line Hardly any single topic in our cruise forums attracts more interest than one entitled "Smoking policies on Cruise Ships." Smoking issues on cruise ships can get very heated, and rarely do you see the opposing sides reach a meaningful point of compromise. So when the cruise lines have to create smoking policies the challenge is to try to please both sides, smoking and non-smoking passengers, at the same time. Not an easy thing to do! This article will focus on the smoking policies of some of the major U.S.-based cruise lines, and what you can expect will happen once you actually get onboard. First of all, there is no entirely smoke-free cruise line serving the
North American market. While most cruise ships are largely smoke-free,
all the cruise lines provide at least some areas for cigarette smokers,
and even for pipe and cigar smokers. However, even cruise lines owned
by the same parent corporations are not created equal, and some of them
are far more restrictive than others. ... More
hotels go completely smoke-free Amid growing public concern about the dangers of secondhand smoke,
the number of lodgings prohibiting smoking indoors has tripled in three
years, according to a USA TODAY analysis of American Automobile Association
data. At
Your Service: Cruise Line Smoking Policies To smoke ... or not to smoke. Nothing fires up cruise travelers more than this issue. Indeed, check out the posts on Cruise Critic's message boards -- but we warn you: Put on your oven mitts before you open any thread with "smoking" in the title. It'll be red hot. This issue is so incendiary (pun intended) that smokers often feel bruised and battered and slink away in shame, and non-smokers are often arrogant and self-righteous and ... well, just plain rude. On the other hand, there are non-smokers whose response is to live and let live and smokers who take the position that "hell, it's still legal, so leave me alone." . . . several major cruise lines have recently introduced very limiting policies, as have many small-ship "boutique" lines and river cruise vessels. But for other major companies, the policies are not nearly as restrictive as most non-smokers wish they were. It's an issue of "spoilage" (the industry's lingo for unsold cabins) that keeps cruise lines from designating some cabins non-smoking, in the fashion of hotel rooms. "It would present an inventory mess," says a spokesperson for CLIA, the cruise industry's official trade association. "The cruise lines' yield management people want the ships to sail full at all times; you can't do that if you set aside non-smoking rooms." We're presenting the policies for you in one neat, tidy package Travelers
Clear the Air on Smoking Regulations Hawaii
Hotel & Condominium Smoking Policies In November of 2006, the state of Hawaii instituted a strict new smoking law. As a result, many Hawaii hotels declared all of their guest rooms to be smoke-free. This has been a boon to non-smokers, of course, who no longer have to enter a hotel room with that telltale odor of "smokers past" lingering in the air. However, smokers aren't happy with such policies, as they won't be able to stay at smoke-free hotels unless they stash their habit for the length of their stay, or only smoke "off premises" or in designated areas, which are usually outside any public area in the hotel, e.g. places like parking lots and other outside areas that are at least 20 feet from any doors or windows. Some entire Hawaii hotel chains have declared all of their rooms to be smoke-free. These include: * Outrigger and OHANA Hotels Hawaii * ResortQuest Hotels Hawaii * Marriott Resorts Hawaii Hawaii's new law is as follows: . . . Below are two tables--the first listing all hotels in Hawaii in which all rooms are non-smoking. Some of these hotels do have designated areas for smoking, which are also listed when known. The second table lists the hotels that still offer some smoking rooms... State
promotes its restrictions on smoking PORTLAND, Maine --Maine is touting its ban on smoking in public buildings as another reason for vacationers to visit the state. Five signs are being posted this week at various locations along the Maine Turnpike and Interstate 95 to let motorists know that it's against the law to light up in places such as government buildings, restaurants and bars. "Breathe easy, you're in Maine," the blue signs with white lettering say. "All indoor public places are smoke-free." WOLFF:
Westin does the right thing I
applaud Westin Hotels & Resorts for banning smoking... Westin
Hotels ban smoking The new year will ring in the USA's first smoke-free major hotel chain. Westin Hotels & Resorts will announce today that it is snuffing out smoking in all rooms, restaurants, bars and public areas at its 77 U.S., Canadian and Caribbean properties starting in January. Guests may smoke only on balconies or in other outdoor areas. Smokefree
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