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I’d do you one better. I’d ban all smoking outright, no more cigarettes. You won’t get thrown in jail but you will be fined.
In Korea some of the clubs had designated smoking rooms and I just can’t imagine walking into one and all the 2nd hand smoke filling my lungs and being trapped on my clothing.
I can’t explain how bad I hate cigarette smokers. They’re cancer sticks and only idiots want their bodies to have cancer. They want an early preventable death, fine, but not me.
I'm with ya 1000%. I call them sh*t sticks. Pizzes my smoker friends right off LOL...of course I only have two of those friends because I hate it so much.
To me it seems like the psycho authoritarians types for some reason get to have airports as there private playgrounds to screw with people. Flying used to be fun, BYOB no problem and a smoking section even on the planes but now everything has gone stupid for some reason.
I'm calling bull**** on any health benefits claimed. That being said, it does seem that a lot of airports are lacking smoking areas and that shouldn't be the case.
Flying and airports are already miserable enough, I can only imagine the misery would be further exacerbated by having to deal with second-hand smoke and tipsy, 'BYOB' passengers. Ugh.
Also, for anyone old enough to remember when most restaurants had a designated 'smoking section'; it was kind of a joke. The whole restaurant smelled like cigarettes. It's not like something that stays contained and then immediately dissipates either - it permeates clothing, breath, hair, furniture and anything and everything smells like stale cigarette. Ever rented a car or a hotel room that was heavily smoked in and they tried to cover it up with chemicals?
I don't really mind when people are vaping nicotine, but traditional smoking and all the accompanying smell? No thanks.
Every airport I have been in, have a smoking room as others have mentioned.
There is a reason why smoking is not allowed in most places, because the majority of people do not want to inhale or smell the smoke. It is not the airports that hate smokers, it is the majority of the population hates smoking.
Locally, the cities passed ordinances for smoking in restaurants, If a restaurant allowed smoking, no one under the age of 19 could be allowed inside. A few places tried to hold out but they lost so much business, they soon had to ban all smoking. It turns out, people quit going to the ones that allowed smoking. Same thing happened with night clubs. They were like "hey, no one under 19 can enter anyway, so we don't have to worry about it." It wasn't long until their business began to slide because people were migrating to the restaurant/bar combinations that did not allow smoking.
This is all becoming more and more a non-issue though because less and less people smoke. It is getting rare to see someone under the age of 25 to 30 smoking. You see some of them vaping but even that has seen huge declines and is fairly uncommon.
To me it seems like the psycho authoritarians types for some reason get to have airports as there private playgrounds to screw with people. Flying used to be fun, BYOB no problem and a smoking section even on the planes but now everything has gone stupid for some reason.
Very rare I would say this but.. "thank you government for the regulations!!!"
I solved the problem:
1. I quit smoking when they instituted a $1 per pack tax on cigarettes to pay for the "Children's Health Insurance Program" (CHIP). That was a long time ago.
2. I quit flying. If I can't drive there, or take a boat, I simply won't go. When people ask "Why?" I tell them that I used to work for a major aircraft manufacturer, and I hold an A&P license. I know how they are built, and how they are maintained, and I do not want to get in one. But the main reason is airport "security". I don't even like to go to an airport to pick up or deliver passengers. I choose to stay completely away.
As for "smoking areas", at the "new" Denver airport the last time I flew into and out of there (years ago) the only place to indulge was in the bars, and you had to buy a drink to sit down in them. I wasn't about to spend $5 for a poorly mixed cocktail so I could have a cigarette!
On that trip, I spent the flight time writing a list of discrepancies on the right wing and flaps. By the time we landed at Wichita, I had a list of about 15 items that I handed to the pilot when I deplaned. The look on his face was priceless.
I have made one flight since then, after I quit smoking. With any kind of luck, that will be my last one.
Yeah I remember that smoking section on the plane with that long miserable flight to Australia. It was a nightmare. You could smell it all through the plane and I was sick the whole flight. Yep really fun for those of us that have to be inconvenienced so you can "have fun."
There wouldn't be so many butts on the ground if there were ashtrays out there. Do you people want smokers to toss a lit cigarette into a trash can?
I call BS. I worked as a janitor when I was in college. I made sure every smoking area had ashtrays on every table and multiple waste cans filled with sand so that proper butt disposal would be no inconvenience. In spite of that, every morning I picked up more butts off the ground than out of the ashtrays and cans. I would watch them from a distance, some gal would be setting at a table puffing away inches away from multiple proper butt receptacles, and when she was done she'd flip the damn butt into the grass.
And when management noticed how much time I was spending picking butts up off the ground and posted a memo about it, the smokers' response was "What are we supposed to do? There are never any ashtrays out there."
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