Do you agree or disagree with this new policy ?

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.

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.

It should be either all or nothing. To say that spectators can’t smoke but players can…

Agree. That is a very public event, smoking is inappropriate in a social setting such as that.

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.

I agree, it’s private, so they can do as they please.