Earlier this year, there was yet another independent survey on smoking. Specifically, smoking on cruise ships.
Doing the math was, if nothing else, interesting.
According to the survey, 48% of cruisers want smoking on cruise ships banned. Completely. No smoking on the deck, nor in the stateroom, bar or designated smoking area. Butt out.
According to the survey, another 27% want smokers to be in a designated area. Butt in.
And 14% said smoking should be allowed in cabins. They’re the hard-cores.
The bottom line is the day will come when smoking is banned on cruise ships, or at least some of them. Positioned as pariahs in the western world, smokers are losing their independence…first because reformed smokers have made them that, and increasingly because it is becoming “illegal” to smoke in public places.
But that’s public places in countries. What country is sea?
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14 nights
November 24, 2012
Fort Lauderdale (return): Back-to-back Caribbean
Inside $1,198
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