Non-Smoking Cigar Bars? Carnival Tests More Restrictive Smoking Policy

Tuesday, July 20 2010

By Dan Askin, Associate Editor | CruiseCritic.com

Few cruise subjects stoke the fires of debate like onboard smoking policies -- but this latest report has real incendiary potential. In a recent post, John Heald, Carnival's famed blogger and senior cruise director, revealed that Carnival Cruise Lines is testing a more restrictive smoking policy -- including smoke-free cigar bars.

"There is a trial on a few of our ships where we have introduced more restrictive indoor smoking areas....for both cigarettes and cigars," wrote Heald on Friday. "This means that the cigar bars on Carnival Glory, Carnival Freedom and Carnival Destiny are now totally 100% non-smoking and on other classes of ships some lounges that were smoking are now non-smoking. Now, no final decision has been made and won't be for some time."  Story continues here...