Smoking At Airports

[furie]

chances are when a door is opened or when they come out, it'll stank like poo.

It's a good job you did the usual large amounts of research before posting an opinion :lol:

The 'boxes' are designed to completely take away the smell of the smoke using clever extractors and filters. In theory, the only smell is likely to be on the breath and fingers of the smoker, exactly the same as if they were outside smoking

 

[Snoo]

Since most airports I've been to have those rooms already, I'm fine with it.

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

Furie, I know those are obviously high quality extractors, but even in say, areas of my grandparent's apartment where they have NEVER smoked, it still always smells disgusting. They smoke with fans, near the windows, and have done so for years, but the clothes will always smell narsty.

I've never personally seen one of these in an airport, but if you're bothered so much because you decided to pick up such a dirty habit in the first place, I personally don't care if you're upset that you can't have a smoke . Shoulda never started in the first place, bitchesss!

Obviously no offense to smokers etc. :lol:

 

[Mark]

Furie, I know those are obviously high quality extractors, but even in say, areas of my grandparent's apartment where they have NEVER smoked, it still always smells disgusting. They smoke with fans, near the windows, and have done so for years, but the clothes will always smell narsty.

Well clearly you completely missed it when I wrote...

...in a relatively new terminal in Madrid (part of the EU) airport they have a fantastic indoor provision for smokers. It has 12 foot high glass walls and extractor fans and so on. When I was there, even the non smokers (Rob and Martyn) commented that you couldn't smell it, even when I opened the door to come back out again.

...in the very first post.

Evidently you have a much heightened sense of smell then most... Must be a side effect of when you went a bit nuts with the hole-punch

 

[Martyn]

The smokers' box in Kiev airport was rubbish. It was in the depature lounge and the entire lounge had a haze of cigarette smoke in it.

It was quite funny going through security with nice clean air, then duty free, then going to the gate and walking into a cloud.

Jake liked it.

 

[tks]

I personally don't see why it should be a "right" of smokers to have some way of smoking before or after a plane journey. That said, the fantastic smoking lounge in Bangkok airport was a god send after the 13 hour flight! And the fact you couldn't go outside the airport whilst waiting for your next 12 hour flight..

I feel that in Britain people would start saying, well if you can have them in airports, then why not put little cubicles in all enclosed public spaces.. It would start to look like a circus with people in boxes drawing on cancer sticks.

 

[thx]

I can't see anything wrong with building a smoking boxes after security, given that they are well done as the one in Madrid marc wrote about. Also, just came to think about that if you buy duty-free cigs then you could smoke some of them before you get on the plane? (as in some places they put your bought stuff in those sealed-"don't open until you've arrived" bags).

^^Many nightclubs in Finland have those smoking boxes, haven't really been in any of them, but heard/smelled that usually their ventilation systems are pretty bad.

 

[Mark]

I personally don't see why it should be a "right" of smokers to have some way of smoking before or after a plane journey. That said, the fantastic smoking lounge in Bangkok airport was a god send after the 13 hour flight! And the fact you couldn't go outside the airport whilst waiting for your next 12 hour flight..

I feel that in Britain people would start saying, well if you can have them in airports, then why not put little cubicles in all enclosed public spaces.. It would start to look like a circus with people in boxes drawing on cancer sticks.

Only in Britain could that happen this is true lol.

Its all about compromise. Like I say, personally, I really don't mind going outside for a ciggie. However, there are a few situations that it is not possible, the airport being one of them.

It is funny you mention rights though. I was actually thinking about it earlier and I have noticed how quick people are to bang on about their human rights when it suits them and quite often forgetting that their 'human right' might impeed someone elses. This is something I think Furie was alluding to in a previous post.

Non Smokers are always very quick to point out that they have the right to go in a pub and not get second hand smoke etc, but they have no problem whatsoever with discriminating others and taking away their human right (and then moan when half their friends go outside and plan what they are going to do the next day and leave them out... And yes, I have had this happen :lol: )

Like I say, its not so much about having smoking areas left right and centre but in certain situations I think it is unrealistic to expect people to go outside (or more to the point, all the way back out through security).

 

[marc]

All they have to do it fence off an area outside, it really is not that hard to do and its not expensive to do.