Smoke signal: Suvarnabhumi sparks smoking rooms outrage

[CanadaJoe]

12 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Good ventilation brings smoke out of the rooms before any gets near the door, and a double door could be installed if need be. I'm sure there are workers who smoke who could be designated to clean the rooms. A smoking room is a good alternative to having the smokers fly across the ocean and have a place to smoke. People who aren't addicted to smoking find it hard to understand how it feels, but it's just like any other addiction. Trust me, I hate smoke myself, but they aren't bad because of their habit, unless it affects others.

I'm not saying smokers are all bad people. All I'm saying is that in my experience smokers can be quite selfish and prioritize their own addiction over the health, safety and comfort of others. 

[Baba Naba]

If they legalized vaping, 3/4s of that nasty smelling smoke would be replaced by pleasent smelling vapor! 😁

[SAFETY FIRST]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“Changing the law to permit smoking rooms again could jeopardise Thailand’s standing on the global stage. 

To hell with the global stage. 

 

I'm a non smoker but I'm for the smoking rooms, let the smokers enjoy a fag before boarding. 

 

All these stupid changes.

 

It's what I like about Thailand the differences, it's not the west, the west is what I left bloody behind. 

 

[radiochaser]

I have seen smoking rooms at airports in the past.  I could see smoke from the cigarettes pulled upwards towards a ventilated box in the ceiling.   The rooms appeared to have fans systems that pull air into the room when the door opens.  There must have been vents allowing air to enter the rooms from outside of it, I don't recall seeing any though. 

 

Being curious I stood at the doorway of two of the rooms I saw that had several people inside smoking cigarettes.  When the doors opened as someone entered or exited I could smell absolutely no cigarette smoke and I could feel air being pulled into the rooms through the doorway when the doors were opened.   

 

Like the pictures in the article, I have seen people standing around doorways outside smoking cigarettes.   The smell of cigarette smoke from active smokers and stale cigarette butts was evident.     

 

The smoking rooms seem to be a better option than having people stand outside the doorways.   

[radiochaser]

1 hour ago, proton said:

 

The users of this filthy, disgusting and very unhealthy habit always play up the addictive aspect as if it's not their fault and as an excuse for not being able to control themselves. Can't imagine what the stink is like in these smoking rooms full of these sad addicts.

I have wondered about that addiction.  My brother started smoking in high school back about 1965.   About 15 years later he decided one day to quite smoking and never smoked again from that day.   He didn't have a problem with it. 

 

My dad was a smoker and died from cancer that started in his lungs.   When he died, my uncle, who had smoked for decades, stopped smoking without any problem either.   

 

As for the cancer that my dad died from, I suspect that it may have been caused by breathing in brake shoe dust that had asbestos in it.   He was a mechanic in the Army and I remember times he would blow his nose after he came home from work.  The tissues he blew his nose into had black colored mucus which he said was from the brake shoe dust.   This would happen for several days in a row when the Army battalion would have the motor pool mechanics change the brakes on all vehicles, which meant changing brakes for thousands of wheels of jeeps, 3/4 ton, 2 1/2 ton, 5 ton trucks, cars, tanks, armored personnel carriers and any other vehicle with brake shoes.  

[radiochaser]

12 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

Ok we all know anyone who smokes on airplanes is a idiot......But thats very different from smoking rooms at airports....

I am old enough to remember, as a kid, when people were allowed to smoke on planes.   I didn't like it.   

 

I can agree to let airports have properly constructed smoking rooms inside the airport where the smoke is sucked out by fans in the ceiling (and I assume filtered and ejected outside), but not inside aircraft.  

[morrobay]

1 hour ago, Dionigi said:

Nicotine is very addictive. Deprive an addict of his fix and you will get bad behaviour, either circumventing the rules or aggression. Bring back properly designed smoking rooms that do not bother non smokers. I do not smoke.

That would have to be negative pressure rooms. Not likely 

[proton]

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

First you want to ban dogs. Now it's smokers. Who's next, coffee drinkers?  My dad died at 79 from smoking 3 packs a day for over 60 years. It was his choice when cancer entered his lungs and I couldn't stand breathing in second hand smoke for the first 17 years of my life but it's their deal. Yes, they are addicted and addiction starts when someone starts most anything, especially the harmful things, but again, it's their choice. Society has made it better for those who don't smoke, by banning from public areas, especially enclosed ones. Having a place where they can smoke without harming others is mandatory, and the rooms when well ventilated, won't affect anyone else. Everyone is addicted to something, although some are bad things to be addicted to. It doesn't mean they are outcasts. It means they should do it where non smokers aren't affected.

 

I never said I wanted to ban dogs, only get rid of soi dogs, there is always one who had an old relative who lived to a normal age despite abusing himself.

[Geordieabroad]

I was at the new terminal at Suvarnabhumi last week. There are at least 2 new smoking rooms and the Hard Rock rooftop bar where you can have a smoke while enjoying a beer. Well done Thailand, common sense is coming back

[phitsanulokjohn]

14 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

 

the Asian ladies I frequent sure do love to smoke.

They've never found a cigarette too big or little for them😂

[superal]

At Suvarnabhumi near gate 30 ish there was once a smoke room on the floor below . When I used it there were mostly airport workers and flight crews in them . Having a couple of beers and a smoke were relaxing before the long haul flights to the UK Heathrow where there are no smoke rooms .  

I know of someone who vapes on the long haul flights . He vapes under his blanket . Also some guys smoke in the aircraft toilet by exhaling the smoke down the toilet when flushing it . 

Many smokers choose to check in at the airports as late as possible because of no smoking facilities inside airports . I can understand banning smoking on board but why ban smoking rooms in airports ? I reckon it is because too many airport staff are using them too much . Some middle eastern smoke rooms are bad , hardly ventilated , I have a couple of puffs then leave .

[proton]

12 minutes ago, superal said:

He vapes under his blanket . Also some guys smoke in the aircraft toilet by exhaling the smoke down the toilet when flushing it . 

 

pathetic

[Bday Prang]

1 hour ago, CanadaJoe said:

By "doo gooders" do you mean folks who don't wish to breathe in other people's foul, disgusting, cancerous smoke??? 

No I think he means those sanctimonious types who choose to put themselves unnecessarily in contact with other peoples smoke and then relish whinging about it. 99% of which are probably ex smokers  

[Bday Prang]

29 minutes ago, proton said:

there is always one who had an old relative who lived to a normal age despite abusing himself.

Would you ban "self abuse" too?    Why ? scared of going blind?

[Bday Prang]

14 minutes ago, proton said:

 

pathetic

or a testament to human inventiveness ?  Bit like drinking ones chang from a paper cup on election day, 

[Bday Prang]

32 minutes ago, morrobay said:

That would have to be negative pressure rooms. Not likely 

Not exactly rocket science either,    What's wrong with an open air roof top smoking area? Simple solution to a simple issue

[Bday Prang]

54 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

13 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

I am old enough to remember, as a kid, when people were allowed to smoke on planes

it wasn't so long ago I think Emirates banned it in the early 2000's   

[actonion]

Back in the days of Smoking rooms at Airports, I  was a very heavy Smoker then, I entered into a  Smoking room at an Airport,   I could'nt believe  how those in there could Breathe, a Yellow Fog, that was one of the reasons I stopped Smoking, 

[RocketDog]

Sure, let's keep the airports smoke free.

 

Now, what do we do about bangkok air quality for those folks who don't live in the airport?

 

A smoke screen if I ever saw one.

[Yagoda]

Get a few rips in while waiting for the plane. Im in.

[Samh]

15 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Farang????????? Asians are way bigger smokers.

I went to Japan in 1998, long after most international airlines had banned smoking. But ANA still permitted smoking in the back of the plane. In Japan they share tables in restaurants so the wife and I shared a table with two smoking Japanese women. Asia out smokes the rest of the World and some, even now.

[Samh]

38 minutes ago, actonion said:

Back in the days of Smoking rooms at Airports, I  was a very heavy Smoker then, I entered into a  Smoking room at an Airport,   I could'nt believe  how those in there could Breathe, a Yellow Fog, that was one of the reasons I stopped Smoking, 

I did a job once in hospital works department. I had to do surveys for upcoming maintemance work. I had to survey the area that was  the rehabilitation unit which in those days permitted smoking. I had to do an estimate the cost of repainting it. The white painted ceiling was actually brown. It then dawned on me that pubs in the UK didn't have ceilings that were actually painted brown.

[Guderian]

Well if they do this then I hope they'll also rescind the stupid ban on beer on SRT trains.

[kimothai]

Having quit smoking almost 30 years ago, I still remember traveling and wanting to have a smoke when transiting.  I feel there should be a smoking room in transit terminals or people will start looking for a way and break the rules.  I'm okay with no smoking (rooms) at arrival terminals because they can smoke before they arrive.  

[Ubonian Canadian]

18 hours ago, dinsdale said:

AKA smokers. @BangkokReady beat me to it. As for global trends, Changi airport, one of if not the best airport in the world has enclosed airconditioned smoking rooms and designated outside smoking areas. Indeed there are 18 places you can go and have a smoke.

I flew to Canada last summer via China & return via Japan. They had smoking rooms at both airports. They are enclosed with exhaust fans. No problems for non-smokers. Don't know why they have their panties in a knot over this. I have never heard a complaint anywhere, anytime.

Leave the smokers alone, after a 12 hr. flight with babies crying a guy needs a smoke.

[chilli42]

How about showing just a tiny bit of journalistic professionalism and a touch of curiosity. It’s an obvious question … why after a seven year ban would smoking rooms be reintroduced? What circumstances led to this being considered again? I don’t expect a real answer to this question, that is just too much to imagine. Just a bit of effort to shake off the reporters laziness better understand the situation

[The Old Bull]

5 hours ago, CanadaJoe said:

By "doo gooders" do you mean folks who don't wish to breathe in other people's foul, disgusting, cancerous smoke??? 

I mean those that deliberately go to where the smoke is so they can complain about it in areas that are 99% smoke free.

[xtrnuno41]

Well im allowed to inhale all dust particles from  burnings and detuned diesels

Im allowed to eat vegetables sprayed with chemicals, most forbidden in western countries

Im allowed to be run down by Thai drivers

Every where there are nano and micro plastics, im allowed to eat that.

Or put it on my body, as it makes all so "shiny" 

So buzz of when I want to smoke a cigarette

[dinsdale]

4 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Get a few rips in while waiting for the plane. Im in.

Problem is after you go through customs or in transit.

[Yagoda]

1 minute ago, dinsdale said:

Problem is after you go through customs or in transit.

Why? The smoking lounges are past security.