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Jun 9, 2018
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It's funny to think how times have changed.
In the mid 1980's I was in a children's home (here in the UK) and the rule they had was you could smoke if you were over 14 (the legal age at the time was 16.)
I had just turned 14 so puffed away (with the other kids who were old enough) in the living/tv room, with all the other children (some of them were only 7-8 years old) just sitting there breathing it all in. God knows if any of them had asthma or whatever. Nobody thought anything of it and it was just the way things were.

Up until about 15 years ago they allowed smoking on trains which was particularly handy as no matter how busy it got the smoking carriage never had many people in it so you were guaranteed a seat:). On the London double decker buses you could smoke on the top level.

They don't allow smoking in hospitals now (in the UK), when I had to go for an appointment a year or two ago it was snowing and when I arrived I was greeted by the sight of (among others) a woman with a portable drip and an old man in a wheelchair puffing away by the entrance. It was bitterly cold and was a particularly sad/pathetic thing to behold.
I had to go to hospital a couple of months back for a procedure and at the hospital I went to they have now banned smoking on all of their grounds, so you are supposed to traipse off site to have a ciggy. Nobody seemed to be paying the rules much heed though and everyone was just smoking outside the entrance as usual.
I think it's bollocks that they can't make an exception for hospitals. Fair enough if you are just visiting for a medical appointment/procedure and you'll be out in a few hours or whatever but what if you are stuck in there for months? Maybe on crutches or in a wheelchair or something. And what about the poor people who are terminal and haven't got long left, surely they could make an exception for them? Put out a covered shelter somewhere out the back or something?
 

sablebrush52

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You could do so in LV during the WCPS. Don't know if it's still possible as the hotel has been refurbishing like mad. (Palace Station had some smoking rooms and suites)
You can smoke anywhere in the hotel except for the lobby, the non-smoking rooms, and the restaurants. They have a couple of floors of smoking rooms.
 

olkofri

Lifer
Sep 9, 2017
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The Arm of Orion
If I had a hotel, I probably wouldn't allow smoking in rooms due to an increased overhead because of extra cleaning, but I'd provide a patio or some other kind of smoking area. Whatever, all this wishful thinking is moot as I don't have a hotel; and even if I did, in order to avoid fines or closure, I'd be forced to comply with local bylaws which are the actual culprits behind these bans, not so much the properties' owners or managers.
 

mso489

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Feb 21, 2013
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Always wanted to go to Vegas on business, since it isn't worth it to me to go as recreation. Not being snooty, I'm just not a gambler, and that's the tourist attraction. But I did want to see the kitsch, the hustle, and the glitz. Casinos, even the most elegant, look tomb-like to me. I can't get into the fantasy of thinking I'm an oil baron or a dot-com zillionaire while I lose money. As a point of reference, we stayed at the Vassar College lodgings for visitors, parents, speakers, etc., when we attended a wedding. It was pleasant, kind of eccentric with donated furniture from well-off graduates, but they did have a nicely gardened picnic table area with ash trays for smokers, which I thought was entirely civilized. And perhaps they didn't want to annoy any cigar or pipe smoking donors.
 

Worknman

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We had a student smoking area in high school back in the late '80s.
We did too in the 90's but it wasnt exactly official. It was the boys bathroom in between class periods. ? It was basically a high stakes game where one guy was a lookout while the others took turns hot boxing a cigarette like there was no tomorrow. Talk about a serious head rush!
 

Chasing Embers

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Nov 12, 2014
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We did too in the 90's but it wasnt exactly official. It was the boys bathroom in between class periods. ? It was basically a high stakes game where one guy was a lookout while the others took turns hot boxing a cigarette like there was no tomorrow. Talk about a serious head rush!
We had a large, outdoor gazebo between the gym and football field/track.
 

sumusfumus

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Jul 20, 2017
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I wish there were bans for men's colognes and women's perfumes. Both sexes reek when doused with this overly concentrated, nostril-curling swill. Try eating/dining next to some "skirt" who took a bath in perfume..... The food tastes like soap, and it's just as offensive and annoying as any tobacco smoke.

Stale, residual tobacco smoke, from cigars, cigarettes, reeks too....just like any filthy ashtray, and used pipe-cleaners.

IMO, the outdoor smoking bans and restrictions... have gone too far. There are other things that spew into the air we breathe that are far worse, and go yet, go unchecked.

I'd much prefer catching a whiff of some guy's cigar, or pipe... rather than scraping dog crap off my shoes, and hate being assailed by some feral, self-centered butt-hole, who's blasting rap-music, complete with the with requisite, vulgar-lyrics.

But hey....that's just me.
 
Jan 28, 2018
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i always wanted to visit moscow. specifically the red square. not because there's anything to see, but because i was told i would never see it in my life time when i was young. i might drain my lizard in smack middle of red square too.

If you ever visit Moscow, my recommendation would be to keep your lizard in your pants. I hear extended visits to Siberian prisons aren't much fun.
 

seanv

Lifer
Mar 22, 2018
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Canada
I Approached a craps table last time in vegas and asked the ladies playing if they minded me smoking a cigar. One of them very politely said she would rather me not smoke a cigar at that table. I said no problem and found another table.
 

TinCup

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I’ve smoked in a fair few hotels and the designated smoking rooms do stink (but one can hardly complain about that) I can see why many hotels wouldn’t bother with an indoor option these days

I’ve smoked in offices, shops, on trains, planes, buses, in cinemas, boats, in a hospital bed... but top weirdest place must be lying on the trolley in the back of an ambulance. I doubt I’ll get to repeat any of those again
 
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I’ve smoked in a fair few hotels and the designated smoking rooms do stink (but one can hardly complain about that) I can see why many hotels wouldn’t bother with an indoor option these days

I’ve smoked in offices, shops, on trains, planes, buses, in cinemas, boats, in a hospital bed... but top weirdest place must be lying on the trolley in the back of an ambulance. I doubt I’ll get to repeat any of those again
Oh,those were great days back then, and no did complain,seems like we all lived in harmony'
 
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