The last two games I've been to I've smelt smoke in the bathrooms by the time the 2nd intermission rolls around, I guess that's to be expected, not sure why they just don't open up the balcony again.
Luckily I switched to vaping a year ago and can get away with a puff here or there in the building without being detected.
I wore a patch the last 2 games I went to. Getting there early, I really end up spending 3.5 hours in the arena, if I eat I start thinking about smoking. With the patch I never think about it. But I only have about 10 patches left from
Previous aborted attempts to quit. So eventually I will have to go without at the games, with season tickets.
I have a vape I use pretty regularly at my girlfriends place, I brought it to a few games intending ti secretly use it if I really was nicing out, but I wasn't. I guess I am a bit chicken to use it inside the arena. I also went to the preseason and earlier games at the very last minute so I would need to go less time without a smoke.
So it actually has not been that bad, not smoking at games.
I used to go out to smoke between every period, but last year I started to only go once during the game. I understand why they want to not have to use the metal detectors between periods and such. And while I smoke, I don't even smoke a pack a day. I imagine if you are really hardcore and smoke a pack and a half a day... You just can't go 3 or 3.5 hours without smoking. I do think that this poor attendence so far this year is at least partly due to a few hundred people just giving up on going to games because they can't smoke.
And even militant non smokers could not have been affected by smoke since they closed the balconies to smokers. Lots of smoke did get in the building back then. Since they made you only smoke in front of the building, the smoking hurt no one, affected no one poorly. Though I guess, from this thread, some people really still drank beer they smuggled in or went to the car to do it.
I think the Sens best option is an enclosed by barricades smoking area in front. Where you can't leave and people watch for those leaping fences. I doubt it happens. But I think it is still possible depending on if the smokers cancelling ticket packages is not just a couple of hundred, but nearing a thousand or something. I see a slim chance of smoking veing brought back outside. Slim but not zero. The attendance this season is really poor consideri g how good the team is, the huge winning streak last year. Maybe angry smokers are a bigger factor then expected, rather then just higher ticket prices?
