cabanafrau
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 10, 2006
I think they do do a pretty good job but I still was blowing/sneezing out black icky stuff and my body hated me when I came back which is normal when I come back from a place where my allergens were triggered--sorry if that was TMI lol.
I think how it affects one is going to differ from person to person. My allergies make it so I'm affected completely differently than my husband. Did he like smelling cigarette smoke? Nope, neither did my mom but because neither one of them has allergies it didn't affect their sinuses like it did me.
But to that point I had a similar yet not the same severity of issues when I was in NYC last December. There I think the issue was overall pollution more or less from mass transit especially the subway.
I'm glad though that you didn't find much issues the last time you went. I'm not sure if I can say I've ever had a migraine (if I did it had to have been minor for me not to remember it) but knowing people who have had them it's no joke. Typically I get sinus headaches that last for weeks but they aren't the same as migraines.
I've walked into a casino in downtown Detroit one time and one time only because of the smoke issue. We were actually parking at the casino then walking through it to get to a nearby theater for a show we were seeing. We planned to have dinner at the casino afterwards. In the under ten minutes I was inside I managed to wind up with a migraine. My husband took one look at me as we were walking back outside and wanted to head back home immediately because I apparently looked so bad. We ended up seeing the performance and he went back for the car and picked me up outside the theater. Miserable night, just miserable.
I've suffered migraines since I was very young and cigarette smoke has always been a trigger that can nudge me over the edge. For that reason I'm always paying attention and try to avoid smoking wherever possible. The smoke level in the casino here was very thick, like a blue haze hanging everywhere. I've heard it's like that in downtown LV so I avoid it. There were several casinos on the strip where I saw people smoking, yet smelled absolutely no smoke whatsoever. I walked out of Treasure Island, Flamingo, Harrah's because I could smell it after walking in 15-20 feet or so and knew I was liable to get in trouble quickly.