should smoking be allowed at the point?

I think that Cedar Point should go smoke-free. That way, many people who are allergic to cigarette smoke and who have asthma can visit this wonderful park and enjoy it. There should be designated smoking areas way off to the side so the smokers can smoke and people who don't want to breath it in, and who get sick from breathing it in do not have to. Cedar point already does a nice job of cleaning up all the cigarette butts, but they would save money if they didn't have so many to clean up and they would have more business because people who couldn't come before would be able to. We all deserve smoke-free air.
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Smoking is not allowed in lines and I believe most of there shows/dinning buildings.  If someone is smoking on a midway or another major pathway, I just move out of nose shot of it.  Which isn't very far since your outside.  When  some people are not allowed to smoke, they chew tobacco.  I would rather see a cigarette but or two on the ground rather than nasty chew spit.  I think their policy on it is fine right now.

So you're impinging on a group's right to smoke because you feel you have a right to smoke-free air?  Who's rights are more important?  Being in the private sector, Cedar Fair has made a policy to balance these two activities that their visiting patronage want to partake in.  If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to visit.

-seth

I am not supposed to be anywhere near cigarette smooke, due to a lung situation I had to have surgically corrected.  However, that's very hard to do in todays society.  I think Cedar Fair has a great smoking policy.  Since CP is right on a lake shore there is a constant wind.  So, I just find out the wind direction and stand where I don't have to smell the smoke. 

I belive this was brought up in a thread before.

I agree with Emma. We all deserve smoke-free air.

I don't care if people smoke, just do it in the privacy of your own home, not in public.

Even though I don't smoke and I don't like the smell of it, it would be impossible for CP to be enitrely smoke free.  The best thing they could do is enforce the rules better (mainly no smoking in lines, especially around wooden structures.)

If CP didn't allow smoking they'd lose a lot of business.  They are very good about enforcing the no smoking in line policy, and that would be the only place I can think of where people would not be able to "get away" from the smoke. 

Would you also ban people who wore perfume or aftershave?  Afterall, I know many people (myself included) who get phyically ill from some fragrances.

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead

I think all of CP should be smoke free but knowing a lot of the guests the way I do they would do it anyway becouse they simply don't seem to care.I have seen way too many smoke in lines and it just makes me mad,one of the reasons is I myselff am a non-smoker.

Whn it's all said and done it's real and it's been fun but was it all real fun?

If CP was smoke free, what would all the sweeps do all day?
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I hate the cigarette smoke, but as long as the people ahead of me in line aren't smoking, it doesn't bother me too much.  I enjoy giving people crap if I see them smoking in line.
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-Chris Woodard
"Mean Streak would be better if they replaced the square wheels with round ones."

If you run into people smoking in line, just discharge a nice wad of tobacco spit right around their feet.

Nope, I don't chew tobacco.  But there's a cool product called "mint snuff" (1-800-EAT-MINT) that I've used for the occasion.  Get the wintergreen and throughly wash out a container of Skoal.  Fill the clean Skoal can (smells the same) with the wintergreen snuff (looks the same) and nobody knows the difference.

I've never done this in line at CP, but I did get a woman in my section at Three Rivers Stadium to give up smoking at Steelers games.  She had refused to stop smoking even though the seating area is non-smoking, so I took up my nasty habit.  After two weeks, she offered a "cease-fire".

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Duane Cahill
Coasterbuzz Track Record - 59
CP Track Record - 13 (too tall for Jr. Gemini)

I think smoking is a stupid waste of money, and a nasty habit, but you can't ban it on the midways. As long as it's an open area with wind and not enclosed like in the queues, I'm fine with it.

Cedar Point does do a good job most of the time with enforcing the no-smoking rule in line, but when I waited in line for Millennium force for almost 2 hours people all around me were smoking and no one told them they couldn't. I guess they couldn't read the signs every ten feet that said no smoking. The smoke bothered me because I have asthma and I almost stopped breathing.
I don't think CP would lose business if they had designated smoking areas off to the side. It would really help a lot for people who are sensitive to smoke.
as for the sweepers, they will still have plenty to sweep up. Disney is smoke free and they have sweepers.

*** This post was edited by Emma The Coaster Girl on 1/7/2002. ***

i would aggre but that would put many of the sweeps out of a job
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Excuse me, where is the 10:00 Laser Show Presented by FirstEnegry??

I wonder how much business CP would loose if it went totally smoke free...I mean for those who smoke..its not like going to a movie for 2 hours, some people can handle going without a cig for that long..I know I can..but as far as not being able to smoke all day..would a smoker even go then if they had to go like 8 hours without smoking..i dont see that happening. I agree with not smokin in line..or even in resturaunts..but as far as outside away from groups of people..I dont know about that.  And I think with even a designated smoking area that would probably cause some problems too. I guess we all have some kind of habit that bothers others..as my husband once said..as much as we know non smokers dont like the smoke, and it has presented some issues on second hand smoke..there is still nothing worse then smelling some fishy errie lake soaked sweaty person standing next to you in line! (grant it i know that dont cause health problems..but WOAH! the smell!)
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*** This post was edited by tohot2se on 1/7/2002. ***

An interesting idea would be to have a "Smoke Free Day" once every month or two. This way, people who despise inhaling smoke can have their "perfect day" at Cedar Point. If you have issues with my idea, so be it.

I think all of the non-smokers need to realize that there are some courteous smokers out there...

Myself included.

I smoke, yes...  I enjoy it.  Yeah.. don't give me your speeches on how I should quit or whatever.  I've heard it all before.  My point is, I respect, and follow, all of the rules Cedar Point posts regarding smoking.  You'll never see me smoking in a queue line, or in a restaurant anywhere in the park.  I do my business out on the midway or in the parking lot.

And even when I'm out on the midway or walking around a parking lot, I'm still doing the best I can to make sure I'm not letting it waft into other people's faces, and I especially don't smoke in front of small children.  The only time I can admit that I've smoked in an annoying behavior on purpose was in front of some whiny girl who was complaining about all of "the smokers around this place."  If you don't like it, walk 3 feet in any direction.

I feel violent with regards to queue smokers and the indifference on the part of some ride ops to enforce policy, but that aside, to prohibit smoking park wide is without question the most ridiculous suggestion I've ever heard. It'll never happen, and I see little reason for it to happen.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Agreed ;)
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Excuse me, where is the 10:00 Laser Show Presented by FirstEnegry??