As a smoker, I mostly agree with the smoking bans except for the bans on smoking in airports?
Do you think it would be the end of the world for them to keep a smoking room inside the security gates of airports?
Last month I had 1 hour between my 2 flights, I almost missed my second flight because I have to come through security again after going outside for a cigarette. There must be a better solution for smokers in airports.
Maybe you should view the FACT that you can't physically be in motion without a "puff" as a sign that you have become a drug addict and are no longer talented of controlling your body.
Personally... I'd be mad at myself for allowing something so pathetic to happen to myself. Maybe you should verbs more about QUITTING... thant bitching that your drug addiction isn't being "accomodated".
the airport i use have a smoking area!
Hartsfield in Atlanta, Ga lol, sorry...but, there really doesn't HAVE to be a better soultion for smokers surrounded by the airports. How about quitting and making a better solution for your health? :D
I agree, I dont see the problem with having a smoking room within airports. They could easily make it so that smoke does not escape the room (use 2 doors and a high power airing system. i am irked by comments of "should stop smoking, its bad, its stinky".. guys, (this is a rhetoric question) what if a group of people tell you that your favorite food (eg: jelly beans) is impossible for your health and the environment. let say when you get through jelly beans, you'll fart poisonous gasses. how would that make you feel? its call freedom to choose. we foot airport taxes and a large portion of us, if not the majority are smokers. smoking booth would be cool and its not that expensive. in stockholm airport, theres a 2 seater smoking booth at the transit room. i estimate there are smoking rooms in most airports that ive been to - except for pittsburgh and newark airport (if nearby is, i must've missed it).
They have a smoking nouns or "Lounge" in the Atlanta airport. There is 1 designated smoking area at each concourse. I've also see them in other airports. Next time look up a map of the airport concourses to find out where the designated areas are, or ask somebody who works there, if they own a designated smoking area. Agreed. It's been a while since I've flew....Last I was competent to do it was I think in San Juan, 5 or so years ago.
How almost non smokers stop being preachy and answer the question; not give proposal....man that's annoying! Duh! We know the health risk......
well do you want to be the one responsible for blowing up airplanes because a cigarette?
I agree - all airports should have them. I own smoked in the ones at the Atlanta airport. You meet good folks in there!
Boy, some of these answers are dumb! How would someone having a cigarette contained by an airport cause an airplane to explode?
You can smoke in the Houston airport and enjoy a Margarita while waiting! If you literally go outside the security section to smoke during a one-hour break, you have a central addiction problem. What would you do if you were on a 15-hour transcontinental flight?
It's OK to make accomodations for smokers where possible, but there's no cause to put smoking rooms in every single area of every single building. Smoking is not something we want to encourage, and making it difficult help motivate people to quit.
I say if the airport does not allow smokers to smoke in the security nouns, they should ban alcohol too.
