The Interpreter Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 ...Visitors who need a nicotine fix will have to go to the parking lot and sit in their cars. The zoo won't have any designated smoking areas.... http://www.channelcincinnati.com/news/9737072/detail.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Did they have a designated area in the past? Or was this ok and now totally unacceptable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screamingnight Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Thats good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beastbreakdown Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 I am so glad that places are finally going smoke free. Cause honestly designated smoking areas never work, look at pki; there might be about 3 people smoking in the designated areas but everyone else just smokes where ever they please. Well atleast now I know I can go and enjoy the zoo without smoke, but I never really came across people who smoked at the zoo... -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coaster-chickie Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 Good...lol I hate cigarrette smoke...and it usually really does make me have coughing fits lol...most smokers just think I'm being rude when I walk past them and cough up a lung, so this is one less place for me to get dirty looks...even though I've never been and probably won't go any time soo...ya...but anyway, it's good that people are starting to have the common sense to ban smoking from public places...now they just need to get it out of all the restraunts where i live...gawd it is AWFUL... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Bowser Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Yay no more smelling that awful smell I dont want to smell that or do I want my kids to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooferBearATL Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Yay no more smelling that awful smell I dont want to smell that or do I want my kids to. The Elephant House? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOPGUN1993 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 At PKI I hate walking threw the area by Vortex , LaRosa's and old Flying Eagle spot because you can't breath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragerunner Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 At PKI I hate walking threw the area by Vortex , LaRosa's and old Flying Eagle spot because you can't breath. I agree. That has to be one of the worst smoking areas I have ever seen. Good for the Zoo. Maybe PKI will follow. I think we will see the federal government move in an stop smoking in public in the next year or two. We moved here from Florida and they already have a smoking ban policy for the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vortex Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Well its some good news for the animals at the zoo the smoke is not that good for them. We have to do all we can to keep them safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausty1983 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Well its on the ballot for November for smoke-free in all places... Its about time Columbus is nice with it being smoke-free up there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Bowser Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Yay no more smelling that awful smell I dont want to smell that or do I want my kids to. The Elephant House? Nice one ... But no what I was refering to is smoke I rather smell the elephants than smell that sicking smell of cig smoke ewwww. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikewhy Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I hope they enforce it, because PKI DOES NOT! I have been to parks that allow smoking that were less smoky than PKI! Good news about the zoo though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Something I find funny about PKI's smoking areas are, non-smokers will sit in a smoking area, and these are proabaly the people who complain about the smoke. Or people will be sitting in the smoking areas then then the smokers can't smoke there either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Something I find funny about PKI's smoking areas are, non-smokers will sit in a smoking area, and these are proabaly the people who complain about the smoke. Or people will be sitting in the smoking areas then then the smokers can't smoke there either. I was walking towards Flight of Fear one time and saw a lady and her husband sitting in the smoking section near Zephyr. When a man in his 40s came up and lit up, the lady started doing that fake cough thing and looking it him. Couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. He was following the rules and she was the rude one. But then again, the smokers are always the bad guys, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikewhy Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I was walking towards Flight of Fear one time and saw a lady and her husband sitting in the smoking section near Zephyr. When a man in his 40s came up and lit up, the lady started doing that fake cough thing and looking it him. Couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. He was following the rules and she was the rude one. But then again, the smokers are always the bad guys, right? I respect anyone who is following the rules and that incident should not have happened. At the same time, I can site from personal experience dozens of experiences where smokers are not following the rules. One Saturday alone early this year I experienced smokers near me in line for Son of Beast, Flight of Fear, White Water Canyon, The Beast and Top Gun. I also had people smoking in the outdoor dining areas near the French Fry place in Rivertown, on International Street and pretty much everywhere in the Action Zone. In line for Son of Beast (this was before it closed) I asked a teen aged boy not to smoke because it was both illegal and making me ill. He glared at me but did put it out. But when I left the line, it turns out this kids mother comes up to me and chews me a new one, telling me that I had no right to tell her son to put out his cigarette. She was mean and abusive. That same day, I asked a man who was smoking during the parade to please walk over to the nearby smoking area. He was actually polite and nice about it, but then his wife unloaded into me, saying I had no right to make her husband stop smoking. This all happened ONE DAY. So yes, in those cases, those smokers WERE the bad guys. And in those cases, I was NOT in the smoking areas complaining about the smoke. PKI's "smoke-free" envionment is a joke. They make no attempt to enforce it, and if you want to smoke, you can do so anywhere with few or no reprimands. I have seen people buying food from a street vendor with a lit cigarette and the employee selling the food does not say a thing. In line for Avatar in Nick Universe, I actually heard a young girl complain to her mom about the smoke, and we were NOT near a smoking area. Smoke free environment indeed.... But I will say again, when I see smokers using the smoking areas I am grateful and appreciative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKIVortex Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 I'm a smoker myself, and I have no problem using the smoking areas. I actually like the smoking area, as I tend to smoke less when I'm at PKI, but when I do decide to lite-up I'm in a smoking area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marlfox_21 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Its great that they are not going to allow smoking inside of the park anymore. It's not good for bystanders. Especially the children and the animals. And the freeroaming Pea****s and Peahens eat the cigarette butts. So cigarettes really aren't good for them. Its great that they are doing this. Hopefully other zoos and Kings Island will follow suit. Here's a thought. Bring back the Wild Animal Habitat to K.I. and make it smoke free too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Bowser Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 the smokers are always the bad guys, right? Yes. Second hand smoke kills seems like smokers always have a monkey on their back just think about what that stuff does to your body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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