Tom - Well said.

We love RSSC and several of those we have met and come to enjoy, are smokers, and most if not all of them have been what I consider very considerate of those of us who don't smoke. I have never had an issue yet with anyone I've met on a cruise from this board that is a smoker.

However, as a TA, it is becoming obvious that cruise lines are slowly going the way of restaurants, in that they have started having limited smoking areas. Your point about the airlines is well taken, when they started banning smoking I had many clients saying they wouldn't fly that airline, or this one, until finally they didn't have a choice anymore, and if they wanted to get somewhere they had to deal with it. Same with restaurants, people still go out to eat.

I really think that in time this will all work itself out, and also that RSSC is not the only cruiseline that will eventually go this route, many have already started, but on this board, RSSC is the main issue, along with Oceania and Silversea. Oceania has had that policy as long as I know of, and they fill their ships on a regular basis and somehow the smokers seem to deal with it.