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SOME REACTIONS TO THE INFORMATION IN FEBRUARY, 2003 THAT THE AG WOULD NOT
PROVIDE A SMOKING HOSPITALITY ROOM/SUITE, AS PROMISED.
I've got to say that those who hang out in Smoking Hospitality do a very good
job of cleaning up after themselves. (After all, no one else will go in
there!?!?) We regularly keep the tables and ashtrays bussed, get rid of the cans
and bottles and plates in the garbage bins. I believe this year we've been
promised deliveries of plenty of snack foods and beverages from Main
Hospitality, unlike at Phoenix this past AG.
-Peg
Thank YOU, for fighting to make the AG a good party for everyone, including
the smokers.
-Becky
If, in the future, we're forced to have a totally non-smoking gathering (due
to hotel policies), I hope that, out of fairness to smokers, the RG or AG
committee makes it loud and clear in their publicity.
-Jody
...as long as I have friends who smoke, I don't want them to be passing up an
AG because of no provision being made for smokers. That would be a bad precedent
to set, and while I think it will happen some time in the not-too-distant future
(because of hotels adopting more and more restrictive policies as regards their
meeting rooms) I'm glad it's not going to happen this year at least.
-Virginia
I think it's darned important to find out if the committee so much as asked.
I am to the point now where if there are not comfortable, indoor smoking
facilities, I'm not going. Period. And if I get there and there aren't
comfortable indoor smoking facilities, I'm leaving. And asking for a refund.
- As most smokers and quite a few non-smokers know, smoking hospitality is
always the hospitality that's a little, well, 'bent'. It really *is* the fun
hospitality where even the tobacco disabled are welcome.
- Omigod! I thought of a use for ALL THAT DUCT TAPE! The Friends of Sir
Walter Raleigh SIG uses duct tape on the RG/AG name badge as a signal of
solidarity with smokers (it's a tradition dating back eight months, OK?). How
wonderfully serendipitous.
- Merrilee, I'll chip in for the suite as well, but smokers need to MAKE SURE
that the AG people let smoking have a REAL hospitality suite. One reason the
Phoenix revolution escalated was being told that we couldn't bring food and
drink to our hospitality. Get it in WRITING, and I pray you'll pardon my
cautious ways. Once bitten, forever shy.
-PK
I believe that it is necessary to provide an area for smokers. I cannot
imagine that after all the business that AG's get with smokers that it would be
prudent to ignore theirs needs.
-Nita
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