Call to BOYCOTT - HASTINGS bans e-cig use in stores nationwide

[kristin]

I liked your comment, but I also could see this particular incident as a potential "dual user" where he/she did use an E cig and also had a few cigarettes.

Except she insists (she contacted stevevapes.com - if you click the link I posted for the follow-up story) that she was never smoking in the hotel.

Here is her email to him:

Good morning, I found your site and I am the person you quoted as being fined the $250 at the South Park Marriott hotel in Charlotte, NC.

You indicated that I may have been smoking a regular cigarette and was just trying to cover up? The answer to that is No, I was not. I suspect that I was reported by room service as I had my ecig laying on the bed when they entered to deliver breakfast, and of course to the untrained eye..... you can decide on that one! I did not have housekeeping while I was there as we were there for a wedding and needed all the time in the room to prepare for the wedding so any other type of suspicions by the Hotel are unfounded. The only excuse/story the manager of the hotel gave me was that housekeeping "smelled smoke in the hallway". As everyone knows hallways are public places used by all the hotel guests on that floor along with anyone else.

Marriott's final email to me said that they are going by the same rules as airlines, if they don't allow e-cigs then neither is the Hotel, the Manager also boasted how users of e-cigs in a public area in the Hotel had been asked to leave!

 

[rothenbj]

Sorry Kristin, missed the follow up completely. That is disgusting and she should contest it. I'd like to see the tissue defense used in court.

 

[kristin]

Consider this .. an ordinance is an ordinance .. or a statewide ban, whatever .. so, the non-user thinks they are not getting satisfaction with the small business proprieter .. thus, they file a formal complaint with the State or City .. now, the proprieter has to contend with that .. so, they still lose .. that example comes from real life from a "corner bar" that I am a partner in ..
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OK, now I see where this is coming from.

Do you have signs or table tents clearly visible that state vaping is allowed? That is one reason CASAA created these:

They can be posted on the door or behind the bar or anywhere, for that matter. There are reversed ones for the inside of entry door glass or solid ones that could be stuck to a wall, mirror, post or even a table stand. CASAA provides them free - you just pay shipping. We also encourage vapers to get them for their favorite establishments to help them avoid confusion (and help advocate vaping.) They are on backorder right now, but we are getting more made and they will be available on the CASAA store again soon. But feel free to save the image (or I'd be happy to send you our high resolution file) and get them printed on your own table tents or signs.

Or get a few of these cheap 4" x 5" stands like these:

$1.92 each at http://www.food-displays.com/fdprod.asp?ID=533
for your tables and bar, print out the image on 4" x 5" heavy paper (or print out 2 on a standard 8 1/2" x 11" sheet) and put 2 back-to-back in the stand for optimal viewing - very inexpensive and reusable solution to some of the potential confusion.

 

[Tanis143]

And if said establishment decides to ban patrons with died hair? I love when sheep berate others into herding along with them. Your money is one of the only measures of power you have in this country. Use it and stop trying to convince others not to.

And I love it when rube's feel their opinion is so much more superior they have to resort to name calling to prove their point. My opinion was based on the general feel of the OP's post, that their "right" to vape where they want to was trampled on. Sorry, you do NOT have the right to vape anywhere you want. If any place asks you not to vape, then by all means, don't go there. But to put a call to arms and boycott because you personally feel a "right" has been violated, thats absurd. Now if IHOP was firing workers because they used tobacco, yes, I could see boycotting for that reason.

And next time, dont be an ... and resort to name calling, it just proves your an ... with an opinion, one of the worst combo's out there.