Cruises: the bill of fare
Sir: Can any reader inform us if any of the cruise ships referred to in your issue of the 26 July, have any accommodation for non- smokers? When the `Great Eastern' sailed with one of the first and finest smoking rooms on the Atlantic run, the gentlemen kept their cigars to this special accommodation, or asked the ladies' permission to smoke. Today the 'Queen Elizabeth II' will be merely air conditioned and may well have no public room whatever for the rapidly increasing minority of non- smokers who find the stink of well-filled ash- trays and the smell of stale cigarette smoke on furnishings, curtains and clothing, actively unpleasant.
We are preparing a Non-Smokers Supple- meat in our `Wholefood Finder' which includes hotels and restaurants serving compost grown food, as well as farmers, fruit farmers, market gardeners and retailers. Could non-smoking readers report if they have found any restaurants with non-smoking rooms? All air- lines allow smokers to fumigate their non- smoking passengers as soon as seat-belts are unfastened, but is there any transatlantic liner with a non-smoking room? On the South African run there is the 'Edinburgh Castle' with six easy chairs in her library, the only smoke free public room, but world travellers may know of others.
Lawrence D. Hills Director-Secretary, Henry Doubleday Research Association, Rocking, Braintree, Essex
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