COUGH...Cough...couch...

True, but I'd be satisfied with IMPROVED compliance. Progress not perfection.

Maybe they should announce it over their music speakers every so often. "Smoking is only in designated areas, not in line, restaurants or the midways. Please refer to the park map or see an employee for direction" or something like that. It might make a smoker standing there with a cigarette feel out of place enough make them stop and stick to the areas.

If you have to announce, it means people don't give a crap about the rule anyway. People don't steal because there are repercussions. Neanderthals smoke where they shouldn't because there are no repercussions. Their primitive brains can't comprehend their effect on other people, so no amount of announcements will do any good anyway.

I'm not so sure about that. Maybe you won't get 100% to comply but if people did take notice they might feel more pressure to get to an area. And some people might be that ignorant about it. I have vague recollection of hearing an announcement play about something I didn't know was wrong and went, "Oh" and corrected myself, most likely not CP.

I was looking at a park map and the smoking areas aren't exactly easy to find, there isn't a key description for it on the side, just a symbol on the map itself. They need to make this stand out a bit more in my opinion, not unlike the huge "line-jumpers" warnings they used to have on the maps and throughout the park.

Just gather a group of people with megaphones and start looking out for people smoking outside of the designated areas. Then, you can surround them and chant "Shame! Shame! Shame!" until they move.

That should work.

Yea, do that to line jumpers as well..

"Shame!! Shame!! Everyone Knows Your Name!!"

I stand corrected, there is a key but it doesn't stand out so I can see people not paying much attention. I do think if they make it very noticeable, it might make more of a difference. That and some more noticeable signs. I saw a no smoking sign at Gemini yesterday that was small and brown and blended into the wood fence it was posted on.

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The line jumping warnings put the fear in me, not that I would have otherwise, but still.

Yesterday, there were a few offenders smoking on the midways from what I saw and smelled. I'm pretty sure I even smelled someone smoking pot in the park last night. It was nasty. Yuck!

A bunch of kids going to a concert, what do you expect? :D

Cedar Point to enforce their no smoking on the midways policy. Too many non-bonded security walk right pass them.

Luckily? Ok.
My advice to you is to not go to California. The experiences there are not few or far between.

Cargo Shorts said:

A bunch of kids going to a concert, what do you expect? :D

You mean PointFest? The Christian music festival? I would not expect that crowd to be "lighting up" very much.

I wasn’t aware Christians were immune from vices. Learn something new every day. :)

Chuck Wagon said:

You mean PointFest? The Christian music festival? I would not expect that crowd to be "lighting up" very much.

You'd be surprised then.

Some of my best friends are Christians...

I stopped going to bingo at the local church with my father because the air was too thick with smoke.