FROM COLIN HARROGATE OUT OF ALL THE BARS ON PAND O SHIPS SURELY AT LEAST ONE LARGE BAR COULD BE USED FOR SMOKERS WHY SHOULD SMOKERS BE MADE TO GO OUT ON DECK IN ALL WEATHERS ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY IM AFRAID THIS WAS THE LAST CRUISE FOR MY FAMILY WITH P AND O PUT POOLE IN A ROWING BOAT

Effective January 2008, smoking is only permitted in designated areas and outdoors on the Starboard side of the ship (contact the Guest Services for details). Smoking is not permitted in any dining venue, theater, hallway or corridor. Smoking is not permitted inside any stateroom or on Oasis class Boardwalk or Central Park private balconies, however, it is permitted on private ocean view balconies of balcony/suite staterooms. A $250 penalty will be applied to the SeaPass for guests found smoking in staterooms or on the private balconies in Boardwalk and Central Park onboard Oasis class ships. Pipe & cigar smoking is only permitted within the Cigar lounge. If no Cigar lounge exists on the ship, there will be a designated area for pipe & cigar smoking, you will find out the location once onboard. Cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco must be properly disposed of and never thrown overboard. A guest must be at least 18 years of age to purchase, possess or use tobacco onboard. The new policy will go into effect aboard 18 of 21 ships initially, with Legend of the Seas, Rhapsody of the Seas and Splendour of the Seas following suit with the 2008 summer season. Anyone brave enough to buck the trend will make a killing!

As an ex smoker I look back and wonder why I indulged in such a disgusting and expensive habit. I am pleased with P&Os non smoking policy and look forward to being able to sit in Auroras Crows Nest without stinking of cigarette smoke and having to have another shower before going to bed to get the smell out of my hair. If smokers don't want to cruise with P&O then thats good. It may allow more non smokers to cruise and enjoy the fresh clean air all the time.

Thank God they are banning it on Aurora as well. This means I can actually use the pub and casino without stinking of stale cigarettes all night. Best thing P&O have ever done.

How wonderful to see so many people against this ridculous and unfair ban. My husband and I do not smoke - I have to be honest I hate it. BUT, I will fight for the right for every individual to smoke if they so choose - we are not children and should not be treated as such (unlike actual children who nowadays seem to be treated like adults - bizarre!). If P&O do not take notice of these comments I feel sure that their reputation will suffer, and hopefully, so will their profits!

Sally Willmer Portsmouth I have just returned from a trip on Oceana around the med. Unfortunately on the way we hit storm force winds for two days,but were still forced to go outside for a cigarette. iI find this totally unexceptable,everything about the cruise was perfect,but i certainly wont be going again. I paid just as much as the non smokers,but did not have the luxury. Talking to all the fellow smokers on board they feel exactly the same.I did learn the disco used to be a smoking area,but the non smokers complained about that.We visited it on the last night ,it was empty,WHERE WERE ALL THE NON SMOKERS IT WAS EMPTY

We have just returned from a trip on Aurora 15 of Oct ,we are smokers and both disabled the only bit of room we found under cover was the crows nest ,which we got to about 10am and all the window tables were taken not by smokers but by non smokers who moved into our places because all the non smokeing window places where taken and when we lit up they had the cheek to ask us to move as they did not smoke ,needless to say a few words were said but we won the day .but after 10 years of sailing with P&O and if they continue with more restrictions on smokers rights then they have lost my custom as well .Fred Olsen here we come////

The amount of views on this subject speak volumes. No other topic has received such a great deal of interest. P and O would do well to take notice. Even if three quarters of the views were anti smoking, that leaves a fair amount of people who agree smoking should be allowed at least somewhere as well as open decks. Get the extraction system working and we could all cruise comfortably together. If and when P and O ban smoking altogether cruise prices will rocket. But there will always be an alternative cruise line. From what we have heard Royal Caribbean have a marvellous extraction system in the smoking bars and no one will feel as though they had to by pass these areas. Even though we smoke we agree that you shouldnt have to suffer second hand smoke. Royal Caribbean seems to be the answer. But what will PandO do about the crew who smoke?