Reply-To: jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp
To: "'Sumo mail list'" <sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [sumo] Smoking and Sumo
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 21:42:32 +0900
At 7:00 PM +0300 04.6.3, Moti wrote:
Regarding the Kkan, since it is run by the NSK, they have decided to
"further examine this issue before making a decision".
The balcony seats have always been non-smoking in the modern Kokugikan,
though I assumed that it was to keep the place nice and avoid burns on the
floor and seats.
The owners of the hall in Osaka have been issuing oral requests in
recent years as well.
But in Osaka they put buckets with a little water in them at each the end
of the rows of chair seats -- sometimes right under the "No smoking" signs.
:-(
But to return to the original complaint from the gentleman with asthma: I
am pretty sure I told him in a private mail that smoking was allowed
downstairs in the Kokugikan but banned in the upstairs seats, so I don't
understand how he got surrounded by smokers -- unless he disregarded this
information.
Just wondering.
~Doreen Simmons
<jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>~
[EndPost by Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]