Smoking & Airports

[lightbeing]

This smoking ban is so unfair (I am a non smoker), my mother inlaw smokes and likes to go away alot. Apparently all airports have no 'smoking areas' at all, just outside before you check in, after that you are buggered:( It is not right to make smokers feel like they are leppers. It is going to be very hard for her to now, she is starting to feel like a outcast:mad:

[i_am]

This smoking ban is so unfair (I am a non smoker), my mother inlaw smokes and likes to go away alot. Apparently all airports have no 'smoking areas' at all, just outside before you check in, after that you are buggered:( It is not right to make smokers feel like they are leppers. It is going to be very hard for her to now, she is starting to feel like a outcast:mad:

Nah! Many of the airports I have been through have smoking rooms or balconies where you can smoke. I am a non smoker but my daughter smokes. Sometimes she has to go outside but not at all of them. I believe the smoking rooms at Singapore are pretty awful though, even for smokers :rolleyes:

[lightbeing]

Nah! Many of the airports I have been through have smoking rooms or balconies where you can smoke. I am a non smoker but my daughter smokes. Sometimes she has to go outside but not at all of them. I believe the smoking rooms at Singapore are pretty awful though, even for smokers :rolleyes:

Well Luton & Gatwick don't have any rooms.

[dark86]

i was told by some1 high up in BAA once that the 100ml is all a con to make you spend money once "airside" and through security.

i was at gatwick the other day and the following happened:

i left a 100ml item in my hand luggage, they took everything out my bag and said "where is your plastic bag".
"i dont have one"
"well you have to go all the way thro security again"
i asked another passenger if i could have their bag (as they just got through).
"you cant do that" the security man said"
"explain me the logic behind that, and tell me why" i said.
"its the rules"
"ok, but tell me the logic"
the supervisor came along and marched me through to landside and i had to queue all over again (20 minutes) and get a plastic bag from the "plastic bag people".

anal beyond belief.

[reptilianshapeshifter]

i was told by some1 high up in BAA once that the 100ml is all a con to make you spend money once "airside" and through security.

i was at gatwick the other day and the following happened:

i left a 100ml item in my hand luggage, they took everything out my bag and said "where is your plastic bag".
"i dont have one"
"well you have to go all the way thro security again"
i asked another passenger if i could have their bag (as they just got through).
"you cant do that" the security man said"
"explain me the logic behind that, and tell me why" i said.
"its the rules"
"ok, but tell me the logic"
the supervisor came along and marched me through to landside and i had to queue all over again (20 minutes) and get a plastic bag from the "plastic bag people".

anal beyond belief.


yeah i was at the airport and had a small kids carton of juice in my luggage. The women said it was too much and grabbed the carton and literally threw it into the bin.

i thought that was a ridiculous way to handle potential explosives!!!!!

Didn't mind selling me drinks inside the secure area though.

[logic bomb]

Do you want to know how to smoke a bong on an airplane without setting the smoke alarms off?

lb

[reptilianshapeshifter]

This smoking ban is so unfair (I am a non smoker), my mother inlaw smokes and likes to go away alot. Apparently all airports have no 'smoking areas' at all, just outside before you check in, after that you are buggered:( It is not right to make smokers feel like they are leppers. It is going to be very hard for her to now, she is starting to feel like a outcast:mad:

haha, smokers should have bells around their necks so we can chastise them and throw rocks at them when we hear them coming:D