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Marriott Smoking Ban Reactions: Hitler Was An Anti-Smoker

July 24, 2006 at 10:17 AM | 1 Comment

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Since Marriot Hotels announced last week that they were going to ban smoking from all of their U.S and Canadian hotel rooms and public spaces, your reactions have poured into our mailbox.

Some cheer Marriott, some call the chain hypocritical, and others are just bored by anti-smoker mania. But almost all have an opinion about the Marriott Employee's Wife.

Here are some of the reactions that we have received about the ban. Keep 'em coming.

Terri says:

Hell Yes, the smoking ban is a good idea. I am sick and tired of having to deal w/other people's bad and filthy habits. I think all smokers should be moved to their own filthy ashtray planet.

A Marriott Employee's wife she is not. Terri knows what she wants and isn't conflicted by her social smoking problems.

Speaking of the Marriott Wife, Michael McFadden, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Director of The Smoker's Club, Inc. wrote in response to the Marriott wife's claims:

That's odd. According to the Marriott's press release statements about the decision they're having a hard time filling their 5% designated smoking rooms. The statements complained about how they have to even do extra cleaning in smokers' rooms sometimes in order to squeeze in a nonsmoker who has nowhere else to stay.

So who's telling the truth here? The employee's wife (who is in favor of the ban but may not have been clued in on the "official party line") or the Marriott executives publicly justifying their decision?

More Marriott conspiracy theories post jump.

Non-smoker Sion Jones wrote in to say:

I neither smoke nor drink but find this anti-smoker mania has become boring and ridiculous. I am tired of hearing about it and tired of listening to everyone with a gripe prattle on about it.

It's not surprising however, that these bans should be in vogue given the levels of propaganda thrust on an unwitting and gullible public. The climate has been hotted up recently by the Carmona Report which I have just taken the trouble to read and research - my curiosity having been piqued by all the fuss. The contents of this report are for the most part not new and not theproduct of Surgeon General Carmona's own mind either....

The decision by Marriot et al really represents a victory for intolerance and stupidity and it is also hypocritical. For example, are you going to ban drinking alcohol too? If not, why not? Ethyl alcohol its key component is a class "A" carcinogen. Alcohol, as it happens, causes more problems than all the other recreational drugs put together yet and for example, the lady referred to in this piece obviously thinks its fine to drink whilst being critical of smoking. What a hypocrite!

He then went on to say that pornography might as well be banned from the hotel TVs as well and that he would rather stay in a room where someone had been smoking than "than in one where I knew someone had been indulging in vice and its subsequent pollution of my environment."

Lastly, E Line writes that it's just another hypocritical move on Marriott's part.

Interesting. My parents probably couldn't have stayed at a Marriott, at least in some states, because of their color. And now I'm barred because I smoke cigarettes. Same old same old. New group, that's all. And with no more rational reason in either scenario, except that the groups were both "fashionably despised." Funny-- I've never smelled smoke in a hotel room, but the story used to be that people of color "smelled funny," so.... same old same old.

The Marriott worker's wife, aside from requiring a few lessons in grammar (a "person" ought to take a singular pronoun) also needs to look up the meaning of "innocent," since she obviously believes it defines non-smokers... whereas, in her mind, all smokers are guilty? Clue, lady: Hitler was an adamant anti-smoker. Guess that made him "innocent."

Needless to say, I'll be avoiding Marriotts.

Ah. Hitler. No matter what the debate, it always seems to circle back to Hitler. And the debate rages on...

Image via LotteryMonkey/Flickr

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  1. darrenshark

    HotelChatter Member
    September 19, 2007 at 12:35 AM




    Re: Marriott Smoking Ban Reactions-

    Smoking should be banned d/t secondhand smoke and the damage it does to the lungs of nonsmokers.

    Alcohol should be banned d/t secondhand drinking (date rapes, domestic violence, alcohol poisonings, accidents involving drunks to themselves, drunk driving accidents and just plain STUPIDITY!)

    Most people don't seem to worry about alcohol and this is hypocritical!  When one looks at the fact that alcohol is involved with close to 100% of all rapes, domestic violence it's unreal to think that it's usage is still upheld!

    It's a cheap "rape drug."  Why do you think bars have happy hours and extend drink specials to women, but not generally guys?  Guys get too violent and girls get more promiscuous....take a look at spring break!  It's sad!

    I think that this society needs to stop being so one sided and take a look at the whole issue!  Stop just picking on one or two bad habits and take on the whole problem!  

    The days of beer and liquor commercials, NFL players promoting their favorite beer to consumers, including 10 year old boys that look up to them, will hopefully be the way of the cigarette commercial, just about 40 years later!

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