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Budget and Avis ban smoking in rental cars
Avis and Budget say the policy came about in response to the needs of renters, citing a non-smoking car as the most-popular rental request. Cars that have been smoked in also require additional cleaning and are out of service longer, costing the companies more money. A spokesman for the Avis Budget Group says they expect some smokers to be upset with the new rules and to take their business elsewhere, but that they think overall the new plan will attract more customers than it will lose.
Avis and Budget will be the first major rental car companies to ban smoking entirely (others offer "non-smoking" cars but many don't guarantee them), though they are only instituting the ban among their North American fleet, not worldwide. Each car will undergo an inspection upon return and renters who have smoked in the vehicle will be charged a cleaning fee of up to $250.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Justin Sep 17th 2009 2:29AM
Uh, you can't smoke in cars from Enterprise either.
DC Sep 17th 2009 5:12AM
So how are they going to go about PROVING beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody smoked in the car?
What about marijuana, which is legal now in many places and leaves no smoke smell behind as every pot smoker knows.
jsteenboy Sep 17th 2009 9:16AM
Ha, good its about time! Nothing worse than getting into a car someone has smoked in. Nasty!
jill Sep 17th 2009 11:43AM
Interesting. That's why they should use electronic cigarettes.
http://www.electroniccigarettesinc.com
trevor Sep 18th 2009 11:05AM
I don't understand why it is so hard if someone smokes, then they smoke once again we the society and the government think we can provide and step in on someones civil rights. We need to focus about worrying about ourselves and not what someone else is doing. Society focuses to much on what everyone else is doing and not enough about what really needs to be focused on or issues that need to be resolved. http://www.rainbowofluv.com
design Sep 24th 2009 4:49AM
I work at Enterprise they have the exact same policy and charge 100 dollars. The thing is not SMOKING, but people ASHING all over the car and it stinking to high fucking hell when we have to rent it to someone 5 minutes after you return it.
Cigarette Monkey Nov 12th 2009 6:57PM
I think now that they banned smoking they should start banning people with b.o. from renting as well, the smell is definitely more unbearable and a lot harder to get out.
http://greensmoke.com/