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Smoking affects other who don't smoke with a distasteful smell, and for those like me with asthma breathing problems. When a bad habit affects others directly than it should be dealt with accordingly which is why so many public places like airports and restaurants are locking it down. Good for them, although like in airports with special rooms those who smoke should be accommodated in a similar manner in restaurants etc because it is their right to smoke. It's not illegal.
In many cases, the indoor smoking bans are at the state level.
There may be a carve out allowed if you're going to have a special smoking lounge with closed doors and its own ventilation system like you get at the ATL. But one factor in not getting many of those is the desire to run the government-owned airports like a business- a smoking lounge does not generate revenue for an airport authority and actually costs more because of the HVAC and additional cleaning/maintenance costs. If you allocate that same space to another Hudson News, a sandwich shop, or expanded seating so the gate next door can hold enough passengers for a 777 departure, you can get rent from the company you lease that precious airport space to instead of havign to deal with the cost of hosting the smokers.
which is EXACTLY what Lambert - St. Louis did.....
How many US Airports have dedicated Smoking Rooms ? Some people have mentioned that every Airport have them but I fail to see them. Somebody mentioned about profit but even private owned Airports in Europe, Asia have smoking rooms !!!
In USA, I see many people smoking after coming out of Airport or near the entrance for the Terminal.
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 agree with a complete ban as well in public places! I’ve had severe asthma all of my life, and have been to the hospital more times than I care to think about because of cigarette smoke. I’ve stopped going to places like Las Vegas because they still allow smoking in the casinos, and I literally cannot breathe there!
What really makes me mad, is when a smoker lights one up in their car with a kid inside! If an adult wants to risk getting cancer fine, but to endanger the health of a child is just wrong!
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?
That explains why there is a big pile of them at every red light. Oh wait, cars have ashtrays. Even if it doesn't come with one you can use a soda can yet it appears smokers just don't care.
How many US Airports have dedicated Smoking Rooms ? Some people have mentioned that every Airport have them but I fail to see them. Somebody mentioned about profit but even private owned Airports in Europe, Asia have smoking rooms !!!
In USA, I see many people smoking after coming out of Airport or near the entrance for the Terminal.
ATL has a few in different concourses. But then they've got the space to carve out things like that even as they've got Concourse G in the planning stage.
Anyone on a flight during the era of having a smoking section on a plane (usually marked by a sign that velcroed to the back of a seat) and be seated two rows in front of the smoking section sign and have them move the sign 4 rows forward because someone complained that they couldn't smoke because the smoking section was full? They didn't ask us if we minded or offer to reseat us. So suddenly we were in the smoking section!
Anyone on a flight during the era of having a smoking section on a plane (usually marked by a sign that velcroed to the back of a seat) and be seated two rows in front of the smoking section sign and have them move the sign 4 rows forward because someone complained that they couldn't smoke because the smoking section was full? They didn't ask us if we minded or offer to reseat us. So suddenly we were in the smoking section!
I never had that, but as an ALO at Fort Hood going to Germany for Reforger I was in the last row of non-smoking with a fabric screen separating me and the smokers behind me. Seconds after the "No Smoking" light went out on our World Airways DC-10, I was smacked in the head by the stench of several dozen MRE matches lighting up, a sulfurous funk not unlike that of standing on the edge of a volcanic caldera. Followed by the malodor of cheap PX cigarettes. Three hours of that to Bangor, Maine, at least the hop across the pond was at night, so everyone was getting some Z's. The fabric screen did no good, there was a mild wisp of smoke along the ceiling all the way to the front.
I always hear "Well, uh, it's like my, uh, ya know, like, uh constipational right to light up". Yeah, and it's mine not to have to endure your moronic habit.
Flying today is kinda like jail... you get thoroughly searched on the way in, there's a bunch of stuff you can't bring in from the outside (like water), the staff can go on a power trip and there is nothing you can do about it, and people fight with each other.
So it's not surprising to me (but still sad) that the government wants to make life even more miserable for the inmates and prohibit them from smoking. A segregated smoking section in an airport harms no one except the feelings of people who want to control other people.
Really?!
So, you think the smoking doesn't harm the smokers and second-hand smoke is a fallacy, I see.
This is an example of why we need compulsory education at the college level in this country.
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