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At the U.S. Open: Outdoor smoking banned: SAN DIEGO — Spectators at the U.S. Open had better keep their butts off Torrey Pines Golf Course: No smoking allowed.To both the delight and indignation of the gallery, the 108th Open starting Thursday will be golf's first smoke-free major - players, caddies, and others inside the ropes, are exempt - Do you agree or disagree with this new policy ?
I'm fence sitting on the matter. you have to smoke about 300,000 cigarettes before you have a decent chance of getting lung cancer or anything, so to say that secondhand smoke is bad for you is just a bunch of people whining. -however, there's people that have asthma that get affected by smoke really easily. plus there's people that just plain old don't like the smell of cigarette smoke. so I can see that being a problem. but is it okay to ban stuff based solely on someone not liking it? I mean, hitler didn't like jews, so he banned them, and he got a lot of crap for it! I don't smoke, and I don't mind secondhand smoke, so I'm unaffected either way. it's a tough call though. good question, by the way. I'm interested in what everyone else says.
Its a private event so they can do as they please.
Even outside smoking can be really obnoxious. When the university I worked for banned professors from smoking they went outside the doors to get a fix. Often there would be such a cloud of smoke at the enterances the only way not to breath it was to hold your breath and run through the cloud. There were times I came home smelling like tobacco just from going in and out of my building. Eventually they drew I've also been to outdoor events where I had to move because several people around me all lit up and I'm not even that sensitive to tobacco smoke.
Smoking in public affects other people negatively. So yes, I agree with it. It isn't just about lung cancer. A lot of people are allergic to the smoke.
If they want to appease smokers by having a smoking area sufficiently isolated from nonsmokers, I wouldn't oppose that.
I disagree with it. It is discriminatory in that it lets the players, caddies and others "inside" the ropes while forbidding spectators outside the ropes. It is a policy that may start turning spectators away from golf.
Agree. That is a very public event, smoking is inappropriate in a social setting such as that.
It should be either all or nothing. To say that spectators can't smoke but players can...
I agree, it's private, so they can do as they please.