@Christine "Hosts punishing guests is not hospitable, and we are meant to be in the hospitality industry. "
Hospitality industry or not, this is MY HOME not a business property, even if it was, in the UK it's against the law to smoke indoors.
I'd expect you to treat someone elses property with more respect than your own and certainly adhere to house rules.
So, hospitality industry or not, I have the right to enforce my own house rules as much as the law and I/we should be allowed to collect fines accordingly.
By that premise, if a guest breaks something, because we are in the hospitality industry, are we expected to swallow that cost? No!
While breaking something isn't illegal as such (unless it was vandelous intent), the guest should have to pay for it.
Shop owners expect damages to be paid for and so they should.
I expect to be compensated for breaking house rules, certainly when it could affect other guests.
Collecting fines for people breaking house rules, certainly smoking inside, is not about the money but the time it's going to take to clean, remove smells and goodness knows what else.
Above all it's MY health and regardless of what people say, if I don't want people smoking in my house, it's my say-so and my reasons.