Posted on 09/26/2002 8:42:01 AM PDT by SheLion
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:36:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In post 55 you ask: How much are you willing to pay for the privilege of having a public facility built and maintained to be devoted to the practice of your habit?
But then in post 57 you say: but my point is that smokers shouldn't expect special facilities to be built for their special desires at the expense of other travelers. ....(snip).........but I don't expect airports to install facilities for my special needs without paying the market rate for the facility.
I understand what you are saying and will answer the question, but you are coming across in what many of us refer to as anti-smoker doublespeak. In your question you refer to a "public" facility, in the second you remove that word. In the true sense of the word a "public" facility is one that is paid for through taxpayer dollars, everything else is private property.
In answer to your question, since the vast majority of airports are government owned, I see no reason for smokers to pay anything for having facilities available to them that are just as comfortable as those who are non-smokers, as smokers pay more in taxes at all levels of government.
Where you are wrong is that smokers do not expect special facilities to be built - we just want to be accomodated just like every other traveller. No more no less.
We are paying just as much for our airline tickets as non-smokers, we should be afforded the same comforts as they. I'm paying just as much for my ticket as you are, why should I be forced to stand outside in inclement weather because you don't like my habit? It is even more appalling when the airport is paid for or even supported by tax payer dollars. As a smoker I am paying more in taxes.
Can you look at it from that point of view????
How what effect would that have on the majority that would be less likely to fly? Your economics needs a little bit of tuning.
Non-smokers flew, no matter what. I was a Travel Agent when Northwest was the first to go smoke free. All my smoking customers requested other airlines.
In this day of the horrible economy, you would think business's would try to accomodate ALL people! Not just a select few with a nasty agenda to bring the USA down!
Are you working towards pulling America down? You sure act like it. You were pitiful a month ago and your even worse today.
Hey. I am a outcast smoker who is going to have a long lay over in LAX soon. You mentioned a small garden area within one of the terminals which I've passed before but can't remember in just which one it was. Can you help a girlie out with more information ta very much?
Welcome to FR....I don't know how you found a post from September of 2002 on your first day, though!
LAX...either Terminal 2 or 3 has that little garden area; the two terminals are pretty much merged together.
Hopefully, you'll clear customs once you arrive in L.A. and not be in a "transit lockup". If you're stuck in the Bradley Internation terminal, I've heard there is someplace there you can burn one, but I sure never saw it (and was too stupid to ask).
Aslo the only post made.........I checked :)
I'm being stalked...
Not by me - - I promise :)
Not so fast. :) This is from post 8 by B4Ranch:
just spoke with a gal at the Airport Authority. There will be two smoking areas beyond security, at the bars on both concourses and Brew Brothers, before security. Three areas total.
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