> Brits, please don't use the word "fag" in reference to cigarettes (or at all).
This highlights (in a small way) one of the issues with codes of conduct in an international context. A lot of things are culturally, linguistically or generationally specific.
So a code of conduct, unless it is very loose, has to pick a dominant culture that sets the rules.
The rule he wanted was, "Don't use the word 'fag', even if you're British and obviously referring to nothing but a cigarette".
The rule he wrote literally does not prohibit a non-Brit from using 'fag'; it addresses itself to Brits and thus doesn't apply to anyone else. That is left to the "spirit", presumably.
If I see a rule like "pregnant mothers, don't smoke weed", I can ignore it, since I'm not a woman.
This highlights (in a small way) one of the issues with codes of conduct in an international context. A lot of things are culturally, linguistically or generationally specific.
So a code of conduct, unless it is very loose, has to pick a dominant culture that sets the rules.