Originally Posted by The Villager II (Post 380033)

I would like to remind the cigar smokers that when you smoke them, there stench has a way of drifting for even hundreds of feet. I had a meal ruined at the lighthouse recently as did several other tables on the deck. A cigarette is bad, but a cigar is a nasty disgusting instrument for those of us that care about our lungs. If you don't care at all about the feelings of others, then I guess there is nothing anyone can say to you, but just in case you don't realize how disgusting cigar smoke is to others, I would say please smoke in private where the rest of us can enjoy the out door dining.

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Originally Posted by memason (Post 380195)

The law does not allow smoking INSIDE. Business can do whatever they want outside, on their own property. If they wanted to make the outside eating area non-smoking, it's within their rights to do so.

Originally Posted by The Villager II (Post 380114)

When I spoke to management about it, I was told that they did not like it either, but Florida Law allows smoking outside even in restaurants.

Originally Posted by uujudy (Post 380194)

Fifty feet would outlaw smoking in all of LSL and Spanish Springs except the parking lots.

Originally Posted by manaboutown (Post 380224)

This sounds like a great idea! In many regions of the USA smoking is not allowed in outdoor venues such as stadiums, parks and beaches because environmental tobacco smoke (second hand smoke) is both toxic to all and annoying to most people. It is also refreshing to not have to wade through cigarette butts lying about on sidewalks and in the grass and sand as we all used to have to do.

Too, cannot a restaurant initiate and maintain its own outdoor smoking policy? It seems to me that if a restaurant provided nonsmoking outdoor areas its business would increase as word got around.

Originally Posted by ilovetv (Post 380197)

I and most people think cigars are a dirty horrible stench and their users are totally inconsiderate. Especially when it is hot and very humid outside, the stench smoke STAYS. It is absolutely nauseating, like sitting beside a toilet.

I think most normal people would like to enjoy a nice place like the Litehouse without sitting near a truck-stop toilet stink.

I also notice that lots of cigar users are bald, with polished 100% shaven skulls. They have no idea what it is to be a woman who just got out of the shower and spent 20 minutes fixing her CLEAN hair.....and husbands like the smell of their wives clean hair......and some mannerless CLOD stinks up the table area with a cigar and our hair absorbs that stink in 5 minutes or less.

We put our head on the pillow later and the stink rolls out......GAG.

Originally Posted by Chief X (Post 380262)

Interesting statements (of fact?). I'm often amused by comments such as this where someone assumes that just because they don't like something, "most" people agree with them.

Regardless, I've never smoked and also feel that it's a disgusting habit and a crutch for weakness, however... I am smart enough to address the issue when I'm put in a situation that I don't enjoy, ie: ask to move to a different location, ask the smoker to cool it, distract the smoker by having a hot blonde walk by, so he'll leave etc.

Like many say on here -- just my opinion.

Chief X

Originally Posted by ilovetv (Post 380197)

I and most people think cigars are a dirty horrible stench and their users are totally inconsiderate. Especially when it is hot and very humid outside, the stench smoke STAYS. It is absolutely nauseating, like sitting beside a toilet.

I think most normal people would like to enjoy a nice place like the Litehouse without sitting near a truck-stop toilet stink.

I also notice that lots of cigar users are bald, with polished 100% shaven skulls. They have no idea what it is to be a woman who just got out of the shower and spent 20 minutes fixing her CLEAN hair.....and husbands like the smell of their wives clean hair......and some mannerless CLOD stinks up the table area with a cigar and our hair absorbs that stink in 5 minutes or less.

We put our head on the pillow later and the stink rolls out......GAG.

Originally Posted by Jim Straz (Post 380288)

I think there's the possibility, however remote, that if 50 people on this forum put their arms out a window on a rainy day only about 38 of them would agree their arms even got wet. Just a thought!

Originally Posted by ilovetv (Post 380278)

And it's "just my opinion" from what I have seen, that "most people" do not like stinky people beside them, especially when "most people" are eating or going out and paying money to have a drink with friends (who do not stink) in a beautiful place.

Deodorant and anti-perspirant commercials have been telling us on t.v. for 50 years that stinking around others is offensive and unacceptable socially. Cigar smoking is regarded the same way by "most people".........even chain cigarette smokers.

Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 380330)

if i had a choice i would rather sit next to someone with an aromatic cigar instead of someone drenched in nauseating cologne/perfume/deodorant! to me, they are the stinky people! outside, at least, i can get away from them - in church, the movie theatre or entertainment venue or even the grocery store it is sometimes difficult to get far enough away from the offender. just my opinion, though!

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 380463)

Just saw a blurb online that reported:

"A study that was made in Cuba and looked into the lives of 54 out of the more than 100 centenarians who live in Villa Clara province, showed that Cigars and sex 'boost Cuba lives. Cuba's high number of centenarians says their longevity is down to laying off alcohol, but indulging in cigars and sex."

Originally Posted by Indydealmaker (Post 380463)

Just saw a blurb online that reported:

"A study that was made in Cuba and looked into the lives of 54 out of the more than 100 centenarians who live in Villa Clara province, showed that Cigars and sex 'boost Cuba lives. Cuba's high number of centenarians says their longevity is down to laying off alcohol, but indulging in cigars and sex."