Smoking Area's in the Parks....

[JanaDee]

The world is full of annoying smells, get over it.

I find most children annoying and their parents moreso for how they parent them but I keep my comments to myself and move on.

Here's a fun "fact", you digest more chemicals on a daily basis than my eCig does to you in passing, if at all.

You claim your ecig isn't annoying. I disagree.

 

[LSU_Mackey]

You may not like Disney's rules, but you still need to follow them. So maybe you are the one who needs to "get over it", as you put it.

That's classic. This forum is overrun with people trying to "cheat" the system for their benefit. I'm sure you've followed every rule Disney has laid out for you.

Walt Disney was a heavy chain smoker, by the way.

 

[LSU_Mackey]

You claim your ecig isn't annoying. I disagree.

"Annoyance" isn't a viable reason to ban something.

 

[6loversofdisney]

I never really noticed people smoking at Disney or even smelling it all the times we've gone. I think that Disney does a really good job at tucking away the designated spots. This gives smokers a chance to smoke while not being intrusive to those around them.

I guess you'll always have a 'rogue' smoker and honestly that would happen even if they banned it all together.

I think everyone should have their right to enjoy the park the way they need/want to, especially since there are ways of separating the smokers and non smokers.

 

[kaytieeldr]

That's the hard way to try to figure it out, and can lead to math errors, much simpler to just use the CDC stat:
"18.1% of all adults (42.1 million people)" (data for 2012, from April 2014 report)
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

I know it was the hard way, but the numbers are from May 2014 - so more current than 2012

 

[wdw&sonny]

The Gov here basically said one of the reasons, for the new updated no-smoking laws, is to prevent children from being exposed not only to the smoke, but also the view that might be perceived by younger people that this is a cool thing to do and therefore they may try to emulate that behavior....
Not judging anyone, just interested to know peoples take on this.....

Hmmm...ban something because if children view it they might perceive it as a cool thing and try to emulate that behavior...good thing "drinking" isn't something kids can see and emulate. I would hate to think that teenagers might try alcohol because parents make it look cool. But, drinking never hurt anyone...nah, that's just plain good for you.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Interestingly, at the end of the hyperlinked in this article there are several disclosures not revealed in the report:

Sources of Funding
Dr Grana is supported in part by grant 21FT-0040 from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Dr Ling is supported in part by grant CA141661 from the National Cancer Institute. Drs Benowitz and Glantz are supported in part by grant 1P50CA180890 from the US National Cancer Institute and Food and Drug Administration. The content of this work is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, the National Institutes of Health, or the US Food and Drug Administration. Dr Glantz is an American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tobacco Control.

Disclosures
Dr Benowitz is a consultant to several pharmaceutical companies that market smoking cessation medications and has been a paid expert witness in litigation against the tobacco companies. The other authors report no conflicts.

 

[Cyrano]

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