Marriot hotels to be smoke free

[Groundpounder]

I just got an e-mail from Marriot Rewards, and starting October 15th, all of their rooms in the US and Canada will be non-smoking. I'm all for smokers rights, but I'd rather not sleep in a room that smells like an ashtray. Thank you Marriot

 

[Shamus]

Don't worry newbie, LOL; you'll be platinum member before you even want to. Hell I think I'm getting close to 70,000 points.

 

[Groundpounder]

Hell I got 50k!!!

 

[Shamus]

Hell I got 50k!!!

Ha ha, That's because I'm used to staying at the Bellagio, and the "W".
R U still at Baynan?

 

[Groundpounder]

The airplane is, I work there now and then when I need beer money. Actually the plane is at AOG getting a phase 1-5, avionics, and interior, and I'm in NH for a month. Whoohoo!

 

[G100driver]

I just got an e-mail from Marriot Rewards, and starting October 15th, all of their rooms in the US and Canada will be non-smoking. I'm all for smokers rights, but I'd rather not sleep in a room that smells like an ashtray. Thank you Marriot

Good for them ... maybe I will switch. WTF cares about smokers rights. Go outside ....

 

[NorthShore]

The only thing bothers me is the trying to stick you for a $300 charge if the non english speaking unlawful alien maid says she thinks you were smoking.

Past that, Marriott beds are way too soft.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

There's smokers in non-smoking rooms all the time. :erm:

no change here

CE

 

[rettofly]

I just got an e-mail from Marriot Rewards, and starting October 15th, all of their rooms in the US and Canada will be non-smoking. I'm all for smokers rights, but I'd rather not sleep in a room that smells like an ashtray. Thank you Marriot

Not for nothing, but..... it's a lot easier to find a non-smoking room than a smoking room just about anywhere.
What bothers me is the impact on energy consumption from increased elevator usage by smokers going outside to indulge. There's also increased energy consumption caused by all the extra door opening and loss of heat or cooling at the hotels.
Maybe the environmentalists should be alerted to this!

Hey.. why not outlaw tobacco? Nah. Wouldn't work. The govmernt would go broke from lost tobacco tax revenue and increased farm subsidies.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

Hey.. why not outlaw tobacco? Nah. Wouldn't work. The govmernt would go broke from lost tobacco tax revenue and increased farm subsidies.

(don't forget political contributions)

CE

 

[con-pilot]

Well I am a platinum member with well over a million points. What really makes me mad is that it is only their hotels in North America that will be non-smoking.

Obviously they (the Marriott Corporation) don't have the guts to go world wide with their non-smoking champaign because they know it will cost them a fortune. Most contries around the world do not have the ever so PC attitude on smoking and Marriott knows that, so the international Marriotts will remain smoking.

Anybody want a few million points?

 

[fatburger]

Can't smoke in Italian hotels....at least the Empire Palace in Rome.

fatburger

 

[con-pilot]

Really, that's the first one I've heard of, all the ones I have stayed in had smoking rooms and smoking was allowed in the bars.

But times are a changing.

In restaurants in France I've seen them turn over the no-smoking signs and put the ashtrays on top of the sign.

 

[Groundpounder]

Anybody want a few million points?

I'll take em!

 

[suen1843]

Great idea they have about the no smoking thing. Now, if they would only take it one step further and get rid of the bars and other alcohol services maybe we will all be a little safer driving past their hotel parking lots.

 

[G100driver]

What really cracks me up is people making this a PC vs normal thinking.

Ever been stuck in a smokers room on a hot day. Turn on the AC and smell the stale smoke.

As for second hand smoke ... just ask my father how that works ... oh yea, you cannot. He died from lung cancer ... non-smoker who spent his life in smokey board rooms, country clubs, ect. during the 60's and 70's.

Anyhow, it just cracks me up how suddenly we start talking about the health risks of second hand smoke and it suddenly gets polarized into a PC vs Normal Thinking agruement. I think that it has very little to do with it. It is more about public health and simple mannors.

 

[con-pilot]

Great idea they have about the no smoking thing. Now, if they would only take it one step further and get rid of the bars and other alcohol services maybe we will all be a little safer driving past their hotel parking lots.

You're on the right track there old buddy. While we're at it outlaw all fast food chains, people are getting way too fat and costing the health care system billions of dollars a year and I'm sick and tired of my tax dollar going to keep fat slobs alive and hungry. Well all the fast food chains except the ones that only serve tofu.

What's that, there are no tofu fast food chains? Well, we'll just make the government start building them and mandate that all the people residing in the United States must eat at least two meals a day at one.

Oil, as in cooking oil, frying oil, an immediate total ban on all oil except extra virgin cold pressed olive oil, one cannot deep fry in extra virgin cold pressed olive oil (flash/burn point too low). The law will only allow said olive oil the be used to salad dressing on organically grown vegetables. That way no one can sneak around and fry a turkey on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Oh, no butter basted turkey either, butter is definitely banned.

As for salt, forget it. (Causes high blood pressure, got to be banned.)

Now, as far as drinking alcohol beverages, sorry, total ban. For a while I considered allowing the consumption of 3.2 beer only in one's residents if all who consume such beverage wears an electronic ankle bracelet. But on second thought I decided that would place to big of a demand on the public sewage system processing all that urine.

As far as coffee and tea is concerned, see above. Sorry, total ban of coffee and tea, can damage one's kidneys, increased health care cost.

Now, as for serving alcohol in hotels, yup, one cannot have too harsh of punishment for DUI in an hotel elevator. Dang thing could go sideways. Then where would we be?

 

[G100driver]

I do not think anyone here is suggesting to make smoking illegal.

I and most everyone else is saying take your smelly-ass habit outside and quit stinking up the joint. While you are at it, quit trying to kill me. You can kill yourself all you want. I think that you family might miss you, however. Unless they are tired of smelling you as well.

Eating McDonald's never killed the guy sitting next to him ... unless you count getting sat on.

 

[con-pilot]

Dang, some people just don't have a sense of humor.

 

[G100driver]

You are right ... I guess I take this a little personal.

Tell how you feel about a preventable cause of death that took a loved one.

Shmuck.