Smoking on the Breakaway

[TheManitoban]

Can't wait for the cruise lines to go TOTALLY NON SMOKING, and its coming sooner rather than later.

 

THIS.

 

Surprised in 2015 that smoking isnt even more restricted. I dont know any smokers who dont wish they were non-smokers. I understand the addiction aspect but this is a serious health issues.

 

Im not a dictator about it either as I wouldnt be bothered if there was an out door area for smokers but as someone going on the Breakaway later this year the reports of strong smoke on multiple decks due to the casino concerns me. When I was on the Dawn last year, I couldnt even be in the casino for that reason.

 

Im not sure why the casino isnt non-smoking. Gamblers will gamble even if they have to smoke somewhere else.

[tumblew467]

You must have been a barrel of laughs on the playground as a kid. I can hear it now, Boo Hoo...they didn't pick me, Boo Hoo...Sally is picking on me, Boo Hoo...I am telling mom on you etc etc etc

Yawn

:p

 

too funny

[hpecorari]

THIS.

 

Surprised in 2015 that smoking isnt even more restricted.

 

It is pretty much restricted now. Usually there are only two small areas outside where smokers can smoke plus the Casino.

 

Harriet

[Merriem]

Is your life that boring that you will report someone who is smoking on the balcony (which is against the rules ANYWAY and should NOT be done..), when the ship is underway and the smoke is wafting away from you? Do you have anything better to do on your cruise??? I hope so. Hot dayum, another half-crazed anti-smoker on the boards. Surprise!! :rolleyes:

 

When you will receive a fine of more than $200 you bet. Smoking is such a nasty and low habit...I am not going to breath your air. If you choose to smoke, please do not exhale.

[Merriem]

Is your life that boring that you will report someone who is smoking on the balcony (which is against the rules ANYWAY and should NOT be done..), when the ship is underway and the smoke is wafting away from you? Do you have anything better to do on your cruise??? I hope so. Hot dayum, another half-crazed anti-smoker on the boards. Surprise!! :rolleyes:

 

Thank goodness we will not be in the same part of the ship as you.

[hpecorari]

If you choose to smoke, please do not exhale.

 

 

Wow, that sounds as if you're wishing death on all smokers!

 

Harriet

[Casino Comp Chick]

Thank goodness we will not be in the same part of the ship as you.

 

And some people will same the same about you

[SissasMomE]

Never mind.

 

Oh come on ... it'll be fun! :D

[joetop2467]

It killed both my parents.

[hpecorari]

It killed both my parents.

 

I'm sorry. I know it can. I had a girlfriend who quite 14 years ago. She got cancer 2 years ago at 54 and died within 6 months.

 

Harriet

[vince_g]

Even when it is closed passengers can still go in and have a smoke. ;)

 

That is incorrect. The policy states Active Casino players may smoke cigarettes in the Casino during gaming hours.

[Merriem]

Wow, that sounds as if you're wishing death on all smokers!

 

Harrietkeith

"We've won the war on cigarette smoking" is a mantra among health-conscious middle and upper class Americans. But within the remarkable half-century long public health success story of declining overall rates of smoking is a disturbing subplot: Those still puffing away are a substantially more disadvantaged group than ever before.

 

In a 2008 Gallup poll of over 75,000 Americans, the rate of smoking among people making less than $24,000 a year was more than double that of those making $90,000 or more. In the era portrayed in Mad Men, smoking was a normative behavior that was not associated with poverty. Indeed, because they had less money and were more religious, the poor if anything were somewhat less likely to smoke than middle-class people. But once the health risks of smoking became widely-known, the better-off began kicking the habit: high-income families decreased their smoking by 62 percent from 1965 to 1999, versus only 9 percent for low-income families.

 

Smoking became analogous to a bad neighborhood that kept getting worse because everyone who had the resources to move out did so, leaving a progressively beaten down group behind. Poorer smokers simply have a hard time quitting, for at least three reasons:

 

1) Lower income smokers take longer and deeper drags on each cigarette than their remaining better-off counterparts. This strengthens their addiction (e.g., craving) and makes it more difficult to turn a resolution to quit into an enduring change.

 

2) Because income tends to segregate where people work and live, poor smokers often have to make quit-attempts alongside people who are continuing to smoke, but wealthier smokers usually do not. The last physician in a hospital who still smokes will face social disapproval from colleagues for smoking and receive social approval from those same individuals for quitting; the first worker on a roadside cleanup crew who tries to quit may face precisely the reverse social incentives from his smoking coworkers.

 

3) Although lower income people’s access to health care is being improved by the Affordable Care Act, they are still likely to lag middle class people in their access to effective smoking cessation treatments. They also may face challenges in accessing care for co-occurring mental health problems (e.g., depression) which make quitting smoking more difficult.

 

So smoking is a lower class habit.

Edited April 16, 2015 by Merriem

[SissasMomE]

^^^

 

Speaking of a "lower class habit" :rolleyes:

[hpecorari]

 

So smoking is a lower class habit.

 

 

Go tell that to President Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Simon Cowell, Drew Barrymore....just to name a few people.

 

I guess they all need to quite smoking so they can 'up' their class.

 

Harriet

[Drico]

 

 

 

So smoking is a lower class habit.

 

 

 

 

 

Go tell that to President Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Simon Cowell, Drew Barrymore....just to name a few people.

 

I guess they all need to quite smoking so they can 'up' their class.

 

Harriet

 

And so does former 1st Lady Laura Bush.

 

Perhaps what "Merriem" means is that she thinks smokers are just low class people anyway, regardless of income and what good they have done with their lives. If someone smokes she wouldn't bother to piss on them if they were on fire.

[Norway97]

Loved the Breakaway enough that we've been on twice and booked twice again for this year. However, single disappointment was that non-smokers...the majority...can't enjoy the bars on the boardwalk. As all are on smoking side with a haze that consumes the entire area. Casino and adjacent area the same.

[tumblew467]

ok there will always be a war of smoker vs non smoker.

but the OP was about this.

As a group going on the Breakaway 9/15 with a few smokers, any info on availability of smoking areas on the ship?

 

So really--- do we need to get nasty. All he/she wanted to know is the area where they can smoke.

 

Personally there are plenty of places to smoke on the ship that are OUTSIDE IN THE OPEN AIR. You are not confined in a closed in area. So Merriem

if you can't contribute to the OP please don't. Also this was a thread that was started in 2013 and has resurrected

 

I get it ---but this is ridiculous. CC is a source of info for many cruisers. Lets keep it that way. Info-- not who should do this and not do it in my area.

[cruizinwithkids]

I think after two years the OP has probably found out his answer.

[Drico]

 

Loved the Breakaway enough that we've been on twice and booked twice again for this year. However, single disappointment was that non-smokers...the majority...can't enjoy the bars on the boardwalk. As all are on smoking side with a haze that consumes the entire area. Casino and adjacent area the same.

 

 

Would you say that is because smoking on balconies is no longer allowed? I've read several similar complaints about smoking in the casino (and areas around) that have been posted on the RCI board since they no longer allow smoking on balconies.

 

Some anti smoking folk on the HAL board are livid that the line continues to allow smoking on balconies. If they get their wish the next complaint (disappointment) may sound like yours.

[House_Atreides]

Thank goodness we will not be in the same part of the ship as you.

 

We are feeling the same way ;):rolleyes::D you, without sin. You nasty old woman. Go troll elsewhere.

[Casino Comp Chick]

It killed both my parents.

 

Cars kill thousands of people ever day, they also emit a ton of garbage in the air every day, should we ban those too or is that not convenient for you? I love how people pick and choose which pollution they prefer.

[TheManitoban]

Cars kill thousands of people ever day, they also emit a ton of garbage in the air every day, should we ban those too or is that not convenient for you? I love how people pick and choose which pollution they prefer.

 

You're going to get flamed ofcourse, for a ridiculous comparison. :-)

 

They shouldnt allow smoking in the casino anymore. I think thats a no-brainer.

[Debde]

You must have been a barrel of laughs on the playground as a kid. I can hear it now, Boo Hoo...they didn't pick me, Boo Hoo...Sally is picking on me, Boo Hoo...I am telling mom on you etc etc etc

Yawn

:p

 

This made me laugh!!! :D Amongst other posts that have been thrown out there because by god we do need to create humor out of some of these over the top posts!!

[Casino Comp Chick]

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Edited April 17, 2015 by iimmie

[Casino Comp Chick]

You're going to get flamed ofcourse, for a ridiculous comparison. :-)

 

They shouldnt allow smoking in the casino anymore. I think thats a no-brainer.

 

The truth hurts now doesn't it, What is ridiculous is the fact that you cannot see it for yourself

Edited April 17, 2015 by iimmie