Posted on 07/19/2006 4:47:01 AM PDT by xrp
Marriott to make all US, Canada hotels non-smoking
Wednesday July 19, 6:34 am ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marriott International Inc. (NYSE:MAR - News) on Wednesday said it will make all of its hotels in the United States and Canada entirely non-smoking, beginning in September.
The company said the policy change, which it called the largest in its industry, covers more than 2,300 hotels and corporate apartments with nearly 400,000 rooms.
Marriott, based in Bethesda, Maryland, said more than 90 percent of its guest rooms are already non-smoking. It said more customers have been demanding non-smoking rooms.
The change covers such brands as Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Courtyard, Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn. Marriott has nearly 2,800 lodging properties in the United States and 67 other countries.
Do you feel that non-smokers have more rights than non-smokers? Why? Please show proof of any health claims. I will show proof of their rejection by other sources.
I used to live in Wilmington, NC. "Back in the old days", as you drove west you came in contact with a most obnoxious odor, Regal Paper Mill, in Riegelwall, NC. the sulphur fumes were so stinky at times, you thought someone crapped on your seat.
The people that lived around there never smelled anything but a paycheck!
That's fine. And smoking employees have no gun to their heads forcing them to work for an anti smoking employer, either. Are they!
riegelwood
That was partly my point. Non-smokers typically don't want to be smelling smoke but use the health hazards of second hand smoke to enact restrictions. An honest approach is to simply say the smell of smoke is offensive to many and is literally nauseating to some. That way, they are not hiding behind the second hand smoke issue. A friend in high school would actually start throwing up in the presence of cigarrette smoke. It literally made her vomit. Not a pleasant way for a teenager to live.
While I support smokers' rights, I have greater support for private industry making the decisions they choose to implement for their business.
Marriott will continue to get 100% of my business when I travel for work (125 nights in Marriott in 2005 and on track for 110 nights this year).
Correct. So it all works out!
Oh! Excuse me pompous azz. It's always been my contention that cleanliness is next to Godliness.
You know what? I STILL chew tobacco, sometimes nicotine gum and I even smoke occasionally. I'm a total nicotine addict, but I bristle at those who think their habit should be imposed on others.
Your reply is full of crap. You tried to turn the issue to "outside, on your property" when the comments that prompted your reply, and my retort, were with respect to smoke filling a hotel room through a ventilaton system.
Look at your own excerpt on your own cry-baby reply if you don't remember.
You expressly demonstrated that you don't care if your stinky smoke enters a hotel room via a ventilaton system, irritating those in the non-smoking room or those who are allergic to your smoke.
Victimhood? Your original reply casted YOU as the victim. The entire tone was as follows:
"Poor me, a misunderstood victim of horrible PC think! People that don't like my smoke and who complain about it are big meanies!" Pure hogwash of an argument.
It is about common decency, which you demonstrated you lack, not PC think.
And I don't act the victim. I already mentioned that I retaliate.
Blow smoke in my face and I won't run to the government. I will get even.
Ruin my hotel stay and I will demand a refund or a new room from the hotel (and they will respond as the chain in question here did - kicking you rude people out!).
I've hocked lugies on the back of rude smokers who blow smoke in my face and refused to move their filthy habit away from me when I asked them to.
I give people every opportunity to act the decent human being. If they refuse and act like you, I respond in kind.
That's the way it should be, without special interest blackmail, government interference, and purely an economic choice by the owners.
The extortion by special interests and the support of Liberal Activist judges and flawed science to support it is where the problem begins. Indoctrination into joining the majority by mis-education and emotional appeal is where the line is crossed, clearly.
If it's YOUR business, you decide FREELY what policy you will implement, and focus on your bottom-line. However, implementation of trendy laws to accommodate political-correctness has cast a pall over even this issue.
Yawn
As all the anti-smoke zealots, you are all hat and no cattle.
There is no right to smoke so I don't get the gist of your question.
More reason to stay at Marriott, IMO. Plus, a lessened risk of fire to the entire building from some smoker falling asleep with a lit cigarette.
I did learn a little trick about using vanilla to freshen up a hotel smoking room. Pour some into the ash trays or glasses and let it stand while you go out for a while.
It helps some...
No kidding. You must be a really smart person. (But maybe you have difficulty with analogies?)
Maybe you were confused because you associate each with unpleasant odors and you think that can be the only association? How 'bout if I hypothesized that they banned prayer inside their rooms, and they you had to go outside the building to pray. Would they still be "welcoming" religious people?
ML/NJ
That certainly is a ridiculous classification of "rights". Who died and made you the arbiter. Do non-smokers have "rights"? We haven't made it to Amerika, yet! Keep trying, maybe you can get it there, yet. /s
It's all about your rights, not mine, with you (corporately)!
Just the kind of response I'd expect from a smoker from New Jersey! LOL
Thanks for the ping!
Not me...I'm one of the huddled puffing masses my ownself!
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