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  Brian, as one smoker to another, you will receive no sympathy here and I would save your breath for all those stairs.
  
  There is a vast amount of air conditioning equipment onboard ferries and arranging segregated areas for smokers with the smoke being exhausted directly outside giving an identical result to standing outside smoking would not present the slightest problem. The sole reason for making smokers go outside in the cold and wind and rain is that Big Brother has decreed that a cowed populace will submit meekly to his dictate or suffer punitive fines. Smokers are a soft target and much easier to boss around than those partaking of alternative pleasures such as drink and drugs.
  
  Norfolk Line have a very large smoking area on the after end of the main passenger deck so passengers can usually find somewhere out of the wind, although it may be a bit nippy. P&O have always had very limited deck space in order to force passengers to remain inside the accommodation where they are spending money. The areas that are blocked off are those outside crew cabins where passengers would disturb crewmembers attempting to sleep as P&O work week on, week off.
  
  Norfolk Line crew work two weeks on, two weeks off but the crew cabins are segregated from the passenger areas. Smoking is also banned for crew members in their cabins and the rest of the accommodation. The only facility provided is a bus shelter on the after end in a wind tunnel underneath the engine room vents. This knowledge will doubtless cause great glee amongst the non-smokers on the forum. Don't worry, your turn is coming. Great numbers of your pubs have already closed down as a result of having their core clientele of smokers evicted and there are more to go as Big Brother continues to increase the price of booze. A small consolation but one from which I derive a certain measure of satisfaction, schadenfreude works both ways.

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