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by charlie on Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:33 am

Anyone, know how the US Airports are now on smoking...Salt Lake City for one...they use to have a smokers area, unlike others, where you had to go outside and the terminal was so huge it took 2 days to find the exit door.... Exclamation

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by Lynda F on Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:47 am

charlie wrote:

I was in SLC last year and the airport had a "smoking room". Don't know if it still does or not.

Phoenix has no indoor smoking area.

I don't know about other airports.

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by tnsmoker on Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:38 pm

Memphis International Airport

I was there in July. There are smoking areas right outside the baggage claim area. These areas are well sheltered. (There may be more in other areas, but this was the only place I went to--picking up a friend who had flown in.)

Inside--as they announced over the PA system every 10 min Rolling Eyes

--there is no smoking except in 2 restaurant/bars inside (which they named, but I've forgotten the names of).

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by gilster on Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:08 am

tnsmoker wrote:

Inside--as they announced over the PA system every 10 min Rolling Eyes

Was it like the movie 'Airplane' when they kept repeating 'No loading in the white zone.....'

They should re-make that movie and change the 'no loading' scene with the ridiculous 'no smoking' PA crap that's out there now....

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by Jay on Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:25 am

Airports are a pain in the arse for smokers. That's the main reason why my gf and folks in her family travel by car instead.

Yeah, the gasoline cost is too darn high. But at least they can smoke while traveling on the road in cars/SUVs compared to that BS for smokers at airports. Not to mention the 2-hour process of just trying to board a plane with the security checks.

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by CigarBoy on Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:50 pm

I flew in and out of Cincinnati on the way to/from Minneapolis/St. Paul last week. They have nice smoking lounges throughout the airport with nice chairs, couches and table. I got there an hour before my flight and had no trouble getting to my gate and that is not a small airport.

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by dumpstermcnuggets on Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:33 pm

I sympathize w/Jay, since he is right that there are too many airports that are increasingly not allowing smoking anywhere past security(i.e. both O'Hare and Midway locally in Chicago, Bush Airport in Houston, LAX in LA, I could go on and on forever!!). I think the best area of the country where you can still find airports w/indoor smoking lounges has to be in the southeast for sure, though there are some exceptions to that rule(especially in the Midwest, but not only in that region), such as airports in cities such as Saint Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Denver, and as another mentioned earlier, Salt Lake City.

Speaking of Memphis and Tennessee, I've heard the airport in Nashville still has smoking lounges! (and as indicated by their online airport map, the last time I checked their website) So yay for that. Smile

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by shanon on Sat Sep 20, 2008 2:19 am

USA survey shows that smoking is allowed somewhere inside 16 of the 25 busiest U.S. airports. Eight airports — in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Honolulu — provide designated lounges for smokers. Some airports, including those in Charlotte and Newark, N.J., allow smoking in bars or restaurants, and a few airports, such as New York's JFK, allow smoking only in some airline clubs.Public health experts say frequent fliers and airport workers may be among those at the greatest risk from breathing secondhand smoke at airports. "The higher the cumulative exposure," says Davis, "the more likely that DNA will be damaged, and the more likely that a tumor will develop."A lit cigarette emits 250 toxic compounds, including more than 60 carcinogens, says co-author Terry Pechacek, an associate director at CDC. Davis and Pechacek warn that even a single exposure to secondhand smoke can be harmful.
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by jsidney on Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:02 am

I am a smoker. I am not magic. I cannot cause your cows to go dry or your hens to stop laying. I cannot kill you with a breath.

But sometimes I wish I could.

jsidney

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by gilster on Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:35 am

shanon wrote:

......Public health experts say frequent fliers and airport workers may be among those at the greatest risk from breathing secondhand smoke at airports.....

Oh my Lord...the SKY is Falling....

Hey, Speaking of the SKY, airplanes emit tons and tons of refuse from unspent fuel burn off.

Are there any airports that pull the planes away from the terminals with Clydesdale Horses so the people in the terminals can't breath airplane exhaust ventilated into the terminal?

Shanon, are you the Mom of Bubble Boy?

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