Zazu wrote:We most certainly will trespass someone for smoking in the wrong place -- even outdoors -- if they cop an attitude or abuse cast members who ask them to stop. I was involved in one ejection, and while I wasn't informed of the ultimate result, the guest did leave the area in the company of OCSD.
I suspect the logic is that if they won't obey a rule like "no smoking", how likely are they to obey the safety rules?
Well, it's not really that simple. It isn't a case of generally obeying rules, it is more of a statement about a specific situation. When I was a smoker, I was absolutely militant about my right to smoke wherever I wanted too. Of course, it wasn't logical. It was emotional. Smokers were under fire (pardon the pun), we were more harshly judged then serial killers, at least that what it seemed like to us. We might have found ourselves outside of a smoking area either by accident or ignorance and, of course, occasionally on purpose.
But when we were approached our feathers would ruffle, our inner defensiveness would awaken and we were absolute a-holes about it. We did follow the other rules though because there were not perceived as a threat to our personal freedom. It didn't take me too long to adjust to the new attitude about smoking and found smoking areas and never smoked in the wrong areas again. It's so much easier now that I have stopped. No guilt, no cravings and no enduring judgmental, BMW Diesel driving folks that felt I was polluting their air. (cough, hack, snort, etc.)