is smoking allowed on any part of a pleasure cruise ship?

[black bunny]

Hope I'm putting this in the correct section. Yesterday we took a trip on a pleasure cruise ship(don't know if I'm using the correct terminology, but you'll know what I mean) at the coast. There was a bar on board, enclosed, with doors that would close the bar off from the rest of the ship. There were absolutely no "no smoking" signs to be seen anywhere on the ship. People were smoking on the open deck, which I presume is allowed, but also in the bar.
We asked the Captain why the ship was exempt from the new legislation, but he was bemused and said he didn't know, and as far as he knew, they were doing nothing wrong in allowing smoking in the bar. Was the law being broken? To whom should we report it if it is?

[Ethel]

Phone the council local to the departure point for advice.

[black bunny]

Thanks for your reply Ethel, looks like you're the only one who has!

[Ethel]

Well it is a difficult one - there would be no information specific to your question. Please phone the council and let us know what they say.

If I remember correctly, licensing laws never applied once the boat had reached a certain distance, and could serve alcohol at any time (in the days of afternoon pub closure) - I would if the same applies to the new smoking laws?

Fascinating question anyway.

[Jibergrt]

We were talking about this the other day at work - and the general concensus was that if the ship was not in british waters it wsan't governed by british law. Now I have no idea as to whether that is true, but might be worth checking out

[black bunny]

thanks for all your replies.
As to being outside of British waters - the boat sails parallel to the shore and is no more than 1/2 mile out! So deffo under British jurisdiction.

[olly8080]

For gods sake why would you want to report it ??? get a life