delaneyc52
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Because Steinbrenner can pay the mob to enforce the rules. Disney won't.

Because Steinbrenner can pay the mob to enforce the rules. Disney won't.
Not a personal attack on you, but this really gets me riled up - and here's why: BOOZE.
It's marketed heavily in every park except MK. Heavens, it's in most restaurants, predominant at the pool bars, even in STREET VENDOR carts that look like giant slushie machines! I've seen parents pushing strollers with one hand and balancing giant beer mugs in the other
I understand you do not want to smell smoke because you can't tolerate it for whatever reason. DH doesn't like to be around people who are drinking because of his alcoholic father. It makes him physically ill to smell it.
However...it is legal and allowed on Disney property. So is DH going to give the stink-eye to everyone weaving through World Showcase? No..he's going to ignore it and enjoy his hard-earned vacation. At least the smokers are (supposed to be) in well-marked, easily avoidable locations.
I don't think you can compare the two. If I smoke in front of you the secondhand smoke can directly effect your health. If I have a beer passing buy you it will not physically harm you.
Sorry but in a wide open arena such as the parks 2nd hand smoke is not an issue. smoke travels up and disapates faster. So unless your in the designated area and 9 feet tall and deformed to a 45 degree angle and facing me, you have no threat to second hand smoke...
I don't think you can compare the two. If I smoke in front of you the secondhand smoke can directly effect your health. If I have a beer passing buy you it will not physically harm you.
I have seen a rise in smokers not smoking in the smoking areas not to mention that several smoking areas are near merchandise carts.
Well that's not a banning issue, that's an enforcement of the current rule issue.
Unless you are so drunk you trip and land on the kid in the stroller - seen in World Showcase!
I don't think you can compare the two. If I smoke in front of you the secondhand smoke can directly effect your health. If I have a beer passing buy you it will not physically harm you.
I think you missed the point of my post. I said that smokers are supposed to stay in the designated smoking areas. If they don't then all you can really do is inform a CM or security and walk away. I agree with pp that Disney would STRICTLY enforce that rule.
People who over-indulge in alcohol are not kept in a designated area but allowed to stumble throught the parks in full view of every child there. No, my child will not develop cancer or have an asthma attack from this encounter but I really don't want my kid exposed to this, and it does make my DH physically ill to smell alcohol. To get back to the point of this thread - I have seen him vomit from the impact of a drunken neighbor's breath
Not trying to argue which is the worse vice...just stating my opinion.
That is a different issue of Disney letting people get to drunk.
I didn't realize Disney forced people to drink alcohol until they were drunk.
Shame on you Disney!![]()
I don't know what to tell you about your son but alchol is everywhere
Sounds like the group at Pop Century who seemed to spend every waking minute huddled by the pool drinking Keystone Light....
I don't think I said that.
This comment was in poor taste, IMHO. I've stayed at POP several times and I have seen people drinking by the pool, but no one was stumbling around drunk. Why do people continue to stereotype to the guests at Value as the unwashed masses?