Smoking etiquette

[Kyrila Scully]

Hi, Sam! Do you still have the wine shop? I've missed you!

I just cook and eat vegetarian food. I leave the collection of methane to the scientists.

Kyrila

 

[Bob Godfrey]

Thoughts and posts coinciding again, Mon. Oops! There we go again.

Isn't it marvelous how the inhabitants of the British Isles (not forgetting you colonials, Kyrila) find humour in the greatest of impending tragedies. It's the Dunkirk spirit all over again.

 

[Kyrila Scully]

"it's the end of the world as we know it...yes it is, the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine."

Kyrila

 

[Bob Godfrey]

Paul, you can get these on Ebay. Make sure you get the one with the built-in ciggie holder, as shown. You also get 6 feet of rubber tubing, enough to reach the nearest window. According to the seller, it's proof also against all known brands of flatulence. My only worry is that some passing villain at the far end of the tube might have it away with the Bensons and leave us puffing away on thin air. You can't trust anybody these days.

 

[monica e. hall]

Good Lord, Bob, is there no end to your knowledge?!

THE DUNKIRK SHALE

Pity it's the wrong Dunkirk...

 

[Sam Brannigan]

Hi Kyrila,

Yep - still inflicting liver damage on the good people of Northern Ireland!

It's good to be back, especially on the droll technical threads like this!

 

[Paul Rogers]

Fantastic, Bob! Until now, I've had to use a bit of old hosepipe and a peg for my nose.

I've done a bit of digging and have discovered that steps are already being taken to protect the population from the threat of uncontrolled flatulence. Throughout the country, 'Safe Havens' are being constructed where non-drinkers can sleep securely in air-conditioned comfort whilst their partners remain at home, bottom-burping to their hearts' content.

Obviously, most such locations are still being built under conditions of extreme secrecy, but here's one I ran across on my way to work:

 

[Kyrila Scully]

Whew! For a minute, I thought Bob had sent you a picture of Weasel's underground house! And don't you let him tell you that Weasel is my boyfriend!!! No (expletive deleted) way!

Kyrila

 

[Per Erik Kjepso]

I noticed there were smoking rooms for all classes on Titanic, but were smoking prohibited in other spaces onboard? Or was the smoking room just more dedicated with brandy service, but you could smoke everywhere? Like, not beeing an issue.

 

[Michael H. Standart]

>>but you could smoke everywhere?<<

I doubt it. While smoking didn't even come close to having the sort of public stigma which exists today, there were practical reasons for restricting if not forbidding it outright in some spaces. The dining saloon is one place which I would think it would not be welcome and possibly the library. In places like one's cabin or even the public restrooms, it wouldn't have been a big deal.

 

[Bob Godfrey]

Those were the good old days if you were partial to the weed. Typically the only restriction mentioned in the passengers' information packs would be words to the effect of: "Passengers are kindly requested not to smoke in the Dining Saloon". Elsewhere it was more a matter of expectation that men would exercise restraint in confined areas where non-smokers (ie women and children) were present.

 

[JJAstorII]

Can't find any information on if they allowed smoking in the private rooms? Or know the general policies of the time? I'm sure you couldn't smoke anywhere in your cabins of 2nd or 3rd class, but could they in the private parlour suites? Like, could the rich get away with it?

 

[Ricky B]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any smoking restrictions that were put into place with regards to the first-class areas?

Could you light up a cigarette/cigar in some areas i.e. walking down the grand staircase, but not smoke in areas such as the Reading room? I imagine that people wouldn't walk into the elevator whilst smoking as means of etiquette. And was it okay to smoke in your cabin?

I do recall seeing a sign in the Reception room stating that you couldn't smoke until after dinner (I think).

Thank you

 

[Steven Christian]

Well there was concern about needing more cigar holders (ash trays) in the first class bathrooms so that would tell me if you could smoke in a shared bathroom facility you could in your cabin also. I'm sure there were some restictions but most was probably due to just being polite at certain times and places.

 

[Julian Atkins]

On The Californian, there was a 'smoking saloon' on the boat deck immediately behind Captain Lord's cabin and the chart room, separated by a port to starboard side passageway. From the main deck below, passengers who wished to have a smoke on the 'smoking saloon' had to ascend a set of stairs to the level above.

The dining saloon for passengers was on the main deck forward on the port side. I would personally find it difficult to see that smoking was forbidden in the dining saloon, given the attitudes of the time that also prevailed into the late 20th century...

I can remember smoking in cinemas, on the top deck of buses, and in restaurants, and - prior to the Kings Cross Station fire - on the London tube, and in smoking compartments on trains.

But I am happy to be corrected on all this!

Captain Lord and Second Officer Stone were pipe smokers in 1912.

Cheers,

Julian