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Airport smokers kicked out of Thai terminals


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11 minutes ago, CanuckThai said:

Why ban it? Hong Kong has a reasonable plan.  They designed "outdoor" smoking areas (balcony/terrace) on the concourses. 

Same at Manchester Airport. Outside covered terrace that is accessed from a corridor leading from the food hall, in the departure lounge. Corridor is exclusively used by smokers. Couple of closed doors en route ensure that no inconvenience is caused to non smokers.

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8 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Same at Manchester Airport. Outside covered terrace that is accessed from a corridor leading from the food hall, in the departure lounge. Corridor is exclusively used by smokers. Couple of closed doors en route ensure that no inconvenience is caused to non smokers.

Correct, Manchester is not a BAA managed airport though. LHR, LGW + Others are and they have no smoking at all. 

 

I quit smoking 6 months ago. I am still in favour of outside smoking areas in airports.

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4 hours ago, LazySlipper said:

I used to be a chain smoker... three to four packs a day, and I actually lit up with my buts.

 

I can still remember back in the 70's people smoking on planes, in classrooms... everywhere actually.

 

I love smoking even if I quit, and I think it is good to make public areas smoke free.

 

Truth be told, if I ever found out I was going to die of cancer, or something else in the near future, I would likely start smoking again.

I am on the same wavelength   :thumbsup:

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5 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Anyone want to start a smoker's only airline, terminal, and lounges?

I'm afraid that, that idea was already taken in 1993 by "Smokers Express Airlines" in Florida, operating 3 aircraft. They ceased operation in 1993, so probably not that great a success...:whistling:

 

NY Times however wrote that in-flight smoking was always allowed on the Concorde flights, but they also ceased.

 

Some reviews says that in-flight smoking is still allowed on China Eastern Airlines.

 

I remember I read an article a few years ago about plans for a business class only airline where smoking would be allowed, don't know if it ever took off...????

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5 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Yep.  In a major college in the USA, we could still smoke in the classroom circa 1975, though we sat by the windows. I was on a flight in the USA a couple days after the in-flight smoking ban started and lit up by habit.  I did one puff and thought "Oh shit".  I got away with that one.

 

In Narita airport, they had a smoking room, with lighters provided.  Very nice.  Good ventilation.  In Cincinnati, Ohio, USA they also had one in the regional plane area.  It was crammed with people, could hardly see your hand in front of your face. You could get a nicotine fix just by walking into the area.  Almost as bad as the steel mills around Chicago & Indiana.

I have always said that 99% of smokers are the most selfish people ever born, just suppose there were no bans on smoking in planes, restaurants and other public places, they would just light up with no regard for anyone else.

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I just love to read all the nonsense ????

 

Brainwashed people justifying the nonsense they get from the controllers via the brainwash media.

I would really like to see the science about this ...

 

And if we are on the science already we might look into the science of microwave technology [mobile networks] also

and find out why nobody wants to make WiFi illegal [which is way more harmful than smoking ...]

 

Maybe the controllers just want people to know anything about anything and just talk nonsense

about everything ???

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6 hours ago, Spidey said:

Name one airport, outside Thailand, that has closed it's smoking rooms in departure lounges.

I flew to visit family and friends in '07.  Helsinki provided smoking areas whilst waiting for the next flight to a small airport within Finland.

 

After visiting family there, I flew to the UK.  No probs. as I rarely smoke after leaving a short-haul flight until I leave the terminal.

 

On the flight back from Heathrow or Gatwick, I was more than a bit miffed to be told that smoking was not allowed anywhere in the airport.....  Which was when I realised that I would never be back ☹️.

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32 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

If you support banning smoking, you should be more

concerned with banning alcohol.

Alcohol is the No. 1 killer globally, but that's ok, yes?

It's people killing themselves or others with Alcohol or under the influence of Alcohol !!!

 

The gun does not kill !!! Who ever is pulling the trigger is the murderer !
[something to think about for all those pulling the trigger - it's not the one giving the order who is the murderer - 

it's the one pulling the trigger !!!]

 

The number 1 killer globally are Governments !!!

Alcohol can't kill as many people as [for example] the US Government did over the last 300 years !!!

[Or 50 Mio in the Sowjet Union, 60 Mio in Mao China ... Germany, France, Vietnam, Cambodia .... the list is longer

then any amount of Alcohol that can ever be distilled]

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4 minutes ago, CeeGee said:

Are the(old)designated smoking areas in the pick up and drop off zones at Swampy(the ones just on the roadside outside the main building)still operating or are they too near the building?

It is just clear of the building, in a small garden area

to the side, 1 minute walk.

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