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Basic Poll: Would you report someone smoking on their balcony?

LMaxwell

By LMaxwell,
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Would you report another guest smoking on their balcony?  

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  1. 1. Would you report another guest smoking on their balcony?

    • Yes, I would call Guest Services / Security
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    • No, I would not call Guest Services / Security
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NHL Philly Fan

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There is already a spirited debate in another thread regarding balcony smoking; vigorous and civil debate can be held there.

 

This is a basic yes / no poll.

 

If you are on your balcony and a neighbor is smoking, would you report the smoker to GS / Security?

 

 

Absolutely 100% yes. If someone is violating a safety rule and especially if in doing so they are impacting my ability to enjoy my cruise, I would call in a heartbeat. Someone smoking on their balcony is pretty much telling everyone else "screw you and your cruise enjoyment, I am going to do what I damn well please". Once reported they deserve whatever penalty they get.

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BigWino

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Carnival should equally enforce all of their rules but I certainly can pick and choose which I want to bother reporting. Your analogy is equivalent to saying I shouldn't support murderers being sent to prison because I speed on the highway. :rolleyes:

 

A neighboring balcony on which someone is smoking is infringing on my enjoyment of the balcony I paid for and I did so with the expectation that it would be a smoke-free area.

 

Even if someone is smoking on the balcony next to yours your balcony is still a "smoke free area." You are outside. The outdoors. Unlimited air. And a big steel bulkhead between balconies.

 

You clearly get your enjoyment out of depriving another person of theirs.

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Even if someone is smoking on the balcony next to yours your balcony is still a "smoke free area." You are outside. The outdoors. Unlimited air. And a big steel bulkhead between balconies.

 

You clearly get your enjoyment out of depriving another person of theirs.

 

No, the cruise line is the one depriving a person of their enjoyment since they made the rule of no smoking on the balcony. As a former smoker I am all for smoker's rights to smoke in designated areas, but only in said designated areas.

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BeachChik

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Suggest those that think it is not a safety issue Google "Star Princess cruise ship fire"

 

This comes up in every thread about smoking. I believe if it was such a fire hazard you wouldn't be able to smoke at all on a ship. Allowing it in a casino where people are drinking and could easily drop a cigarette or on an upper deck where someone could flick it over the side just as easy as they could on their own balcony tells me it's not a huge issue. And the princess ship balconies were not built with fire retardant materials which is why it caught fire in the first place and why it spread. Those materials are no longer used on ships.

 

Add to the fact that fire occurred in 2006 and carnival banned smoking on balconies in 2014. So the 8 years before they banned it fire was not a risk? How concerned were they if it took so long to ban it.

 

I don't smoke and I wouldn't bother to report it. Was next to someone smoking on my last cruise. I occasionally caught a whiff but it was gone as quickly as it came. But then I also wouldn't report people dressed poorly in the dining room, kids in adult areas or people hogging chairs simply because I'm on vacation and I don't care enough to worry about it.

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Cruisin 4 Ever

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Are we back in elementary school? For all that say yes are you going to police the serenity area, the chair hogs and the dress code in the dining room? I just believe either all rules are enforced or none. You simply cannot pick and choose.

 

I highly doubt anyone is interested in policing anything. However, if I pay for a balcony knowing no smoking is allowed, and then I can't use my balcony because of someone breaking the rules, of course I will ask Carnival to fix it. it's the folks breaking the rules who are behaving incorrectly.

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Even if someone is smoking on the balcony next to yours your balcony is still a "smoke free area." You are outside. The outdoors. Unlimited air. And a big steel bulkhead between balconies.

 

You clearly get your enjoyment out of depriving another person of theirs.

You may think this is true, but not always. On one cruise, we had smokers on the balcony below us, and on either side of us. they were all chain smokers. No matter when we would go out to sit on the balcony, the smell of smoke was very apparent. It isn't so much about the health issue, I realize sitting on my balcony i am breathing fresh air, it just plain stinks!! I'm an ex-smoker, quit 30 years ago, and am appalled that i smelled like most smokers do. This cruise was before the ban on smoking on the balcony and I repsected their right to smoke. But now that they aren't suppose to, yes, I will call!!

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Crusin Hogs

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Even if someone is smoking on the balcony next to yours your balcony is still a "smoke free area." You are outside. The outdoors. Unlimited air. And a big steel bulkhead between balconies.

 

You clearly get your enjoyment out of depriving another person of theirs.

 

No steel bulk heads on balconies on 6th floor and higher , They are open ,under ,both sides and the top ,

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No, I wouldn't report it. Just like I don't report chair hogs, saving seats in the theater, people jumping lines in the buffet, snowflakes in the hot tubs, serenity area and casino as well as diapered babies in the main pool. All of these broken rules hamper the enjoyment of something I have paid for... "My" vacation. As a smoker that obeys the rules, yes it bothers me. Just as much as any other rule that is violated. But it irritates me more how folks pick and choose which rules "apply to them" but I'm on vacation and if I were to report every rule violation I encountered, that's all I would be doing! :rolleyes:

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Cushing985

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Are we back in elementary school? For all that say yes are you going to police the serenity area, the chair hogs and the dress code in the dining room? I just believe either all rules are enforced or none. You simply cannot pick and choose.

 

Exactly! I wouldn't report unless I was also willing to report all the other crap I see onboard the ships (which I'm not). Unless something really offends me, for example, the smoker tossing the cigarette over the side, I wouldn't say anything. Carnival (and all the other lines) need to do a better job at enforcing their own rules before I get involved.

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I have reported it and will continue to report it whenever I see or smell it. When it comes to the safety me and my wife, and the rest of the ship, it does matter.

 

Anyone who does not agree with the safety factor should look at pictures of the Star Princess from a few years ago, that is when Princess banned smoking on your balcony.

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Cushing985

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If it wasn't a safety issue, Carnival would not have a policy in place.

 

Below is a link to the Carnival website stating this policy:

https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3839/kw/smoking%20policy

 

Smoking Policy

 

All staterooms and suite accommodations are an entirely smoke free environment, including the outside balcony. This policy includes all forms of smoking, including but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes), tobacco pipes and personal vaporizers.

 

Cigarette, electronic cigarette and personal vaporizer smoking will only be permitted in designated exterior open deck areas, as well as our night clubs (except on Carnival Sunshine and Carnival Vista), and in certain areas within the casino (for playing guests while at designated slot machines and table games) and the casino bar. Cigar and tobacco pipe smoking will only be allowed in designated exterior open deck areas.

 

Guests who smoke in their staterooms or on their balconies will be assessed a $250 cleaning and refreshing fee on their Sail & Sign account. Information on this fee is included in Carnival's cruise ticket contract. Guest agrees to strictly comply with Carnival's non-smoking policy.

 

To see locations where you can smoke on your cruise, click here https://help.carnival.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3490

 

Do you think Carnival is being dramatic?

 

In my opinion, including e-Cigarettes makes it seem Carnival caved because of people complaining about smoking on a balcony (right or wrong) and not so much about safety. E-Cigarettes don't create embers and people won't toss them over the side. So, why prohibit them on balconies?

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