Originally Posted by Cargojon

Let's be real here, kids.

You can smoke in any Marriott hotel room that you book and pay for.

You just have to pay $250 "clean up fee".

Marriott is a business. If the event is profitable enough (and believe me, the event is paying handsomely for this priviledge I'm sure), Marriott is free to adjust their rules as they see fit - they're a private business.

I'm sure there is, at a minimum, tens of thousands of dollars in revenue coming to them for hosting this event. Which one of us who is in business wouldn't adjust our normal business practices if it meant bringing in a very large amount of business.