Disney Resorts to Ban Smoking

[rjholla2003]

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=314801&type=World

Disney resorts to ban smoking
Created: 2007-5-4 0:42:14

THE Walt Disney Co is banning smoking at all of its 22 hotels and time-share resorts, effective on June 1.

The ban permits smoking at designated outdoor areas.

Disney, however, is simply responding to increasing demand from guests for nonsmoking hotel rooms, the theme park's spokesman Jacob DiPietre said on Wednesday.

The ban follows a 2000 measure that restricted smoking throughout Disney's theme and water parks, limiting smoking to designated areas, he said.

DiPietre could not provide figures tracking the decline in requests for smoking rooms, but said it has been "significant."

Less than four percent of Disney's more than 24,000 hotel rooms are currently smoking optional, he said.

Guests caught smoking after the ban could face cleaning surcharges as high as US$500.

If Disney does not have the demand for smoking rooms, then the theme park should reduce the number of smoking rooms available, not ban them, said Gary Nolan, US regional director of The Smoker's Club, a smoker's rights group.

"Disney is going to send money elsewhere," Nolan said.

Some hotels located on Disney property are not owned by the theme park and will still offer smoking rooms.

Kath Petchey, a cigarette smoker for 32 years from England, lit up as she walked along Downtown Disney's shopping district on Wednesday.

[coastermom]

I guess that means the non-smoking room I requested in july is a lock huh . 

[Dubya91]

Awsome, So you can sleep at night without a pillow-full of smoke

[WadeJ]

Robb, I'm not so sure smokers would even smell the smoke in their room lol

I know I'd be screwed if I smoked now that they did this with how often we are there lol

[Dubya91]

^Thats true, they do get used to it...

Yeah Wade, Seems you are there practically every weekend...

[OrlandoRocks]

It?s about time. 

[WadeJ]

I can feel for the smokers on this one because smoking IN the room is reletively harmless to others provided the rooms remain "smoking" rooms.  Now smokers will have no choice but to either walk to a quarantined area like in the parks or smoke "illegally" outside their door which will now bother the non-smokers - unlike before when smokers could just smoke in their room lol