Smoke signal: Suvarnabhumi sparks smoking rooms outrage

[dinsdale]

3 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Why? The smoking lounges are past security.

This is true unless it isn't i.e. there are no smoking areas past customs. Pretty much what this thread's about. All airports in Australia you cannot smoke. Swampy (although someone posted they found one) and Don Mueang there's no smoking areas past customs.

[Yagoda]

14 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

This is true unless it isn't i.e. there are no smoking areas past customs. Pretty much what this thread's about. All airports in Australia you cannot smoke. Swampy (although someone posted they found one) and Don Mueang there's no smoking areas past customs.

There is in Siem Reap and Singapore IIRC

[dinsdale]

2 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

There is in Siem Reap and Singapore IIRC

You obviously did not see my earlier post where I said Changi has 18 smoking areas. 

[fredwiggy]

7 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I prefer my tax dollars / baht, not to be used to support unhealthy activity, that may eventually lead to health problems, which again, will cost tax money to treat.  

 

I know making people sick and the making profit treating them is big business, but prefer my dollars / baht is spent doing both.

 

You want to kill yourself, do it  away from me, and on you one dime, sip baht.  

Having your tax dollars go towards a smokers room is saving your health, as they will be confined to that room and not smoke illegally indoors anywhere else. Smoking will never be banned everywhere as too many like to smoke.

[fredwiggy]

6 hours ago, proton said:

 

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.

I seem to remember you saying you thought all dogs were worthless, or words to that effect, that they were good for nothing, unless it was part from you and part from another. I do know you said it about the pitts.

[Yagoda]

6 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

You obviously did not see my earlier post where I said Changi has 18 smoking areas. 

yeah i got ripped there. fabulous

[KireB]

19 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

South Koreas smoking room are fantastic, the best I have ever experienced....Very nice, and very clean....With a top of the line air filter ventilation system...

 

Japans smoking rooms are kind of hard to find and they are so so....But they are good enough after a long flight.....

 

No reason in the world non smokers should be against smoking rooms in airports......Non smokers have a 0% chance of catching 2nd hand smoke...

Smokers and their pathetic rooms smell terrible. It stinks.

 

If you cant resist the urge for a couple of hours,  just stay home. Easy peasy. 

[fredwiggy]

7 hours ago, CanadaJoe said:

If people want to engage in a disgusting habit like smoking, they are free to do it in the privacy of their own homes. However, the rest of us should not be subjected to the stench or health risks from such a foul habit. All public spaces should be smoke-free. Why should we have to suffer from someone else's addiction? In my experience, the majority of smokers are selfish and believe they have the right to smoke, regardless of the harm they cause to others. 

I'm sure a lot of smokers are indeed selfish, with the attitude they can smoke wherever they want, and only laws stopped them from doing it anywhere, but I think the majority don't think much about it besides they are addicted and can't stop, although many want to. Addictions aren't easy to break, whether its drugs, alcohol, sugar (food) or cigarettes. I don't think my dad realized how much second hand hurt his family, but with 3 packs a day, he was surely addicted.

[dinsdale]

Just now, KireB said:

Smokers and their pathetic rooms smell terrible. It stinks.

 

If you cant resist the urge for a couple of hours,  just stay home. Easy peasy. 

"A couple of hours". A well thought through comment. Ever been in transit waiting for your next flight after just getting off an let's say 8 hr. flight with 3 maybe 5, 7, 12 hrs. to wait for the next one? Every had a flight delayed?  "A couple of hours". Genius comment.

[fredwiggy]

9 minutes ago, KireB said:

Smokers and their pathetic rooms smell terrible. It stinks.

 

If you cant resist the urge for a couple of hours,  just stay home. Easy peasy. 

I'm thinking if they all stayed home, many major decisions that affect many lives wouldn't happen. truck drivers delivering food and other things, businessmen going to important meetings, clergymen going to churches or synagogues, store owners going to work, people taking cross country or ocean flights, judges and lawyers going to hang people or rob them blind, restaurant workers, garbage collectors, soldiers going on maneuvers, and politicians making important decisions (I could have left that one out).

[redwood1]

10 minutes ago, KireB said:

Smokers and their pathetic rooms smell terrible. It stinks.

 

If you cant resist the urge for a couple of hours,  just stay home. Easy peasy. 

 

So are you a 2 or 3 pack a day smoker? And whats your favorite brand?

[edwinchester]

20 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

 

the Asian ladies I frequent sure do love to smoke.

Reek from all three holes then.

[KireB]

21 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

 

So are you a 2 or 3 pack a day smoker? And whats your favorite brand?

As I wrote, a filthy habit. Stay home!

[KhunLA]

47 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Having your tax dollars go towards a smokers room is saving your health, as they will be confined to that room and not smoke illegally indoors anywhere else. Smoking will never be banned everywhere as too many like to smoke.

I peeked in one of those smoking rooms once out of curiosity.  Ventilated is a stretch, if it was.  Making a bad day at Chiang Mai looking like a breath of fresh air.   

 

Literally a fog in there 

 

I couldn't stomach someone coming out of that room after a cig or 2, and getting stuck sitting next to their smelly selves on a plane for a few hours, or even a 1 hour hop in country.

 

Would be like staying in a smoker's hotel room, or a car owned by a smoker, even when nobody smoking in it.   They really don't know how bad they stink up the place.

 

Nothing is more of a turn off, than when out on the prowl, and a cutie in the bar,, club or a park lights up.  

[Humpy]

Just imagine, on a 12 hour flight, sitting next to a smoker who has just sucked a packet of fags in the kipper room !!"

[Samh]

3 hours ago, redwood1 said:

 

So are you a 2 or 3 pack a day smoker? And whats your favorite brand?

I worked in an office once and one guy would come in in the morning and put down a number of packets of cigarettes. I don't mean a couple, 4 5 of 6. When he went home they were all gone. But the joke was he arrived at 10 and left by 4.

[Satcommlee]

Theres a lounge you can smoke in at concourse D, they charge 1500 for entry but I use priority pass to enter.

[dinsdale]

17 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??? 

You're ignorance is outstanding. The entire idea about smoking rooms and smoking areas is specifically so "folks who don't wish to breathe in other people's foul, disgusting, cancerous smoke???" aren't exposed to the 2nd hand smoke. Get a grip. 

[Kinnock]

10 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

Having your tax dollars go towards a smokers room is saving your health, as they will be confined to that room and not smoke illegally indoors anywhere else. Smoking will never be banned everywhere as too many like to smoke.

..... too many weak-willed addicts who can't quit.  People only pretend to like smoking because they lack the strength to beat their addiction.

[superal]

I was in a bar at swampy airport about 2 years ago, after security . I heard someone ask if there was somewhere to smoke , because all smoking rooms had been closed . The barman said  walk about 40 meters to another bar and pay 400 baht and they will let you smoke 2 cigarettes in their back room .

[Easterneye]

Pathetic to see people in such a state they cannot wait until they are well clear of the airport with their filthy stinking habit . 

[redwood1]

52 minutes ago, Easterneye said:

Pathetic to see people in such a state they cannot wait until they are well clear of the airport with their filthy stinking habit . 

 

Sir you need to take up smoking.......Once your a smoker you will see smokers as humans.....You need to start smoking TODAY...

[stoutfella]

As a reformed smoker, probably the worst kind, I am fully in favour of "smoking" rooms. I think it is quite sensible that these social pariahs have somewhere they can go to kill themselves.

[lapamita]

The best cancell    all laws  established since the 2000!! and the world would  be better off#

we could smoke , the financialsystem  not in trouble,lesss  woman libbers and and and

95% of all this laws passed are unnecesary or even harmful

[redwood1]

11 minutes ago, lapamita said:

The best cancell    all laws  established since the 2000!! and the world would  be better off#

we could smoke , the financialsystem  not in trouble,lesss  woman libbers and and and

95% of all this laws passed are unnecesary or even harmful

 

I agree.....I would quite like to be able to smoke on a airplane, movie theater, grocery store and hospital again....

[Dan O]

On 2/6/2025 at 8:27 PM, dinsdale said:

Try vaping. Did it for me. I know vaping still isn't good but it's a damn side better than cigarettes. I'm around 9 mnths without a cig. Fancy one every now and again and I'm guessing I always will.

Vaping is illegal in Thailand I believe. 

[dinsdale]

6 hours ago, Dan O said:

Vaping is illegal in Thailand I believe. 

Not often I attach emojis but 

[Dan O]

2 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Not often I attach emojis but 

Seems the laugh is on you as it is. Whether they enforce it or not is another issue. 

[scottiejohn]

What is all the fuss about?

Smokers cannot smoke in public/non smoking places so put them in non public/smoking places!

No problem!

Smokers go to smoker places where they do not interact/annoy Non smokers and Non smokers then don't care as they don't smell/interact with them!

A "Song and dance about nothing" IMO.

[dinsdale]

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

Seems the laugh is on you as it is. Whether they enforce it or not is another issue. 

Hence the laughing emoji. Vaping is very widespread. The only enforcement will be on tourists. Bit like the old discarded cigarette trap in BKK.