ALERT! Smokers Avoid Reno Airport. No Smoking Ban In Effect!

Reno Gazette ^ | 26 September 2002 | Frank X. Mullen Jr.

[SheLion]

Reno/Tahoe International Airport plans to remove its smoking rooms, leaving some passengers fuming because they won

[Gabz]

“We don’t want to inconvenience any passengers,” said Adam Mayberry, airport spokesman. “We need to increase revenue to sustain air service and operations.”

Then why in heaven's name do these people insist on doing something that will further add to the inconvenience of ALL passengers?

The fact that some people can't see beyond their noses, let alone the politically correct BS of the anti-smokers is totally beyond me.

[Gabz]

BWI in some lounges - but none past security anywhere near any of the gates.

[SheLion]

Poor babies. They look so cute walled inside their little glass houses

You missed my post today. I said that we are not putting up with personal bashing in here anymore. One guy bit the dust. You want to be the second?

You want to come in and have a lively debate, that is what these threads of for. Educational purposes. But if you insist on bashing and flaming decent Conservatives because we choose to smoke, that's another story, and we aren't putting up with it. Care to join your friend?

[SheLion]

PC is literally killing us.

It would be different if tobacco was illegal. But it's a legal commodity that the lawmakers have jumped on to cure all their ills. If it's so darn bad for us, why don't they ban it, instead of counting on us to "balance their budgets," all the while they ban and restrict us everywhere. Make sense to you? Sure doesn't make sense to me.

[SheLion]

What are the odds that this alternative was even examined?

They don't! The lawmakers and the City Councils go behind closed doors and see how miserable they can make it for smokers. All the while, they have their paws deep in our pockets to help bail their budgets out.

I, for one, am tired of carrying their loads, while they dump all over us! I think they owe us for all the back taxes that were imposed on the people who "pay" cigarette taxes!

[Great Dane]

I have decide to just ignore the little minions..... there is nothing a child hates more than being ignored.

[I'm_With_Orwell]

I have decide to just ignore the little minions..... there is nothing a child hates more than being ignored.

You're right, I'll ignore this person from now on, as well.

Being an ex-smoker himself, he has no credibility in attacking current smokers. All his vitriol and bitterness come from trying to convince himself he doesn't want a smoke.

His issue is with himself, far more than it is with us.

[Great Dane]

Being an ex-smoker himself, he has no credibility in attacking current smokers. All his vitriol and bitterness come from trying to convince himself he doesn't want a smoke.

You are so right, reformed smokers makes the best fantics.

[Cultural Jihad]

Whatever happened to the idea of expecting adults to accept the consequences of their lifestyle choices? If that includes having to forego their chosen chemical for a few hours, then so be it. Granted the tobacco industry never offered classes on the results of nicotine addiction so as to allow potential consumers the knowledge necessary for informed consent, but people have been calling their products addictive and dangerous for decades now.

[SheLion]

When I was growing up, smoking was a "habit." We knew, even back then, that smoking wasnt' good for us. Just like we know that too many "fat fries" today, isn't good for us.

If smoking is so BAD for us, why has it been around and LEGAL for hundreds of years? Why all of a sudden, do we have all these Anti Smoking Groups making big bucks, to put an end to a legal commodity that 55 million Americans enjoy? Why? Can anyone answer my question?

And if the Anti Smoking Health Fascists succeed in taking away something we enjoy in this life, will they come after you next? You can bet they will.

These groups are trying to beat us into submission. Is this the ground to which America was founded? I don't think so.

It seems to me that something else has moved into America and is working underground to undermine us all.

[VRWC_minion]

I said that we are not putting up with personal bashing in here anymore

I said that smokers in the airport look cute and that I feel sorry for their added expenses. I didn't direct my comments to you personally.

[Publius6961]

Let him be she-lion...

It is good to have a live example of a power mad controlling twit.

Lets us remember what we are really fighting.

[TheRightGuy]

and in Sydney, Australia

There is a small (10'x12') smoking room past security on the concourse that UAL uses at SYD. At least there was in January.

[Always Right]

Does this mean that they have banned NOT SMOKING? Or that there is not any ban in place at all?

Reminds me of a sign in Reagan National Airport which stated that "State Law requires alcholic beverages be consumed in this area". They have removed it since then.

[lewislynn]

Perhaps the airlines should bring back the smoking sections to entice more passengers?

How does a smoking section "entice more passengers" to travel?

That would indicate an admission, cigarette's control smoker's lives...You aren't suggesting that's the case are you?

[VRWC_minion]

I thought of a solution. We separate the smokers from the non-smokers. The smokers can take the odd numbered replies and the nonsmokers can take the even numbered replies. Later we can limit the smokers to the prime numbers.

[monkeyshine]

Get us an email for the airport so we can write them nasty notes. Why don't they set up a smoking slot-machine room or something to raise revenues?

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[SheLion]

That would indicate an admission, cigarette's control smoker's lives...You aren't suggesting that's the case are you?

It's their relaxation method of choice. You prefer prescription drugs? (or booze)

[NYCVirago]

I've flown exactly once since 9/11. Since security checkpoints take so long now, I wasn't able to go outside and smoke like I used to do, and not even bars in airports have smoking areas anymore, so I ended up sneaking a smoke in the bathroom. I felt like I was back in high school!