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

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

[uglybiker]

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.

Don't feel bad. Some folks are still disappointed because their proposal for nose-picking lounges was turned down.

[SheLion]

Don't feel bad. Some folks are still disappointed because their proposal for nose-picking lounges was turned down.

Let's not get disgusting.

[SheLion]

I felt like I was back in high school!

Exactly. It's an awful feeling! I can imagine. You finally come of age to enjoy the legal commodities of life, and still we are forced to hide. I am so tired of this I can just scream!

[SheLion]

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?

The only email I can find for them is:

webmaster@renoairport.com

But I doubt if writing to that person will make a difference. I am still searching, though.

[SheLion]

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

Your both right. He is wearing blinders and blaming us. There is nothing we can tell him to change his mind anyway, and it just wears me out.

[Old Professer]

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.

You and that mouse in your pocket, okay?

[BJungNan]

I'm a former smoker that still gets fumed over the stupid restrictions on cigs and places like airports that won't provide a place for smokers to smoke.

But, I did quit and if you are thinking about it, here is my suggestion.

• A credit-card sized computer that creates a personalized gradual withdrawal program based on individual smoking habits
• Combines advanced computer technology with behavior science principles
• Patented and scientifically proven method to quit smoking
• Over 1.25 million units sold world-wide

One of those 1.25 million units was sold to me and it worked. This is a great system. Here is what is great about it.

1. For the first three days you get to smoke normally. All you have to do is push a button every time you smoke a cig.

2. On the day you are to quit, you wake up in the morning, turn on the little computer thing and it says...Have a cigarette! My kinda program.

3. It then starts to tic down the time and you have a cigarette when it tells you to. For the first three days, that is the same time you would have had one anyhow (remember, you programmed it with your smoking habbits for three days).

4. Then gradully it starts to change your smoking pattern. In my case, less in the morning and actually more than I would have normally smoked in the afternoon (at times even when I did not really want a cig).

5. Finally, the time stretches out between cigs. Eventually, it got to the point that I got dizzy off them like the first time I smoked - Time to quit and I did.

I don't sell the thing. But it is really the darn easiest way to quit and actually kind of fun. Link Here for the web page

[SheLion]

Thanks so much! But I still reserve my right to smoke a legal product and enjoy it as much as I can. Smoking is me.

But I will pass on your kind words to others who might wish to stop smoking. Thanks again!

[Great Dane]

often backed by tobacco companies,

They never miss an opportunity, do they, meanwhile they forget to mention that smokers are forced to fund the ANTI FANATICS.

[Great Dane]

Columbus Airport designated smoking areas on both sides.
Toronto.......... same.
Ottawa............ same.
Will keep you posted on Copenhagen next summer.

[Great Dane]

What are the odds that this alternative was even examined?

I suspect their excuse is just that, an excuse, they have simply caved in to the FANATIC ANTI's.

[andy_card]

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

Because we don't need a Nanny state. Tobacco is bad for you, alcohol can also be bad for you, and hitting yourself over the head with a sledge hammer is certainly bad for you. But while you don't have any "rights" to a place to smoke, drink alcohol, or beat yourself to a pulp in public, it really isn't any of the government's business what you do to yourself in the privacy of your own home. I only wish they would extend this philosophy to cover other currently controlled substances.

[andy_card]

Don't feel bad. Some folks are still disappointed because their proposal for nose-picking lounges was turned down.

I want a glass-walled procreating lounge! I'm mindful of my Rights! Why are smokers special? Not only does sex help alleviate the stresses of post Sept.11 air travel, it is also practiced by a lot more than just the 30% of the air-traveling public who smoke. Why this discrimination?

[Max McGarrity]

Thanks. BTTT

[Atlas Sneezed]

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?

[SheLion]

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?

MY habit? I don't follow you. What habit are we talking about?

[Atlas Sneezed]

"MY habit? I don't follow you. What habit are we talking about?"

Forgive me if I assumed you were a smoker, but my point is that smokers shouldn't expect special facilities to be built for their special desires at the expense of other travelers. I would find that free movies would calm me down, or a gymnasium to work out in, but I don't expect airports to install facilities for my special needs without paying the market rate for the facility.
To the smokers: How much would you pay to spend 15 minutes in a smoking room?

[SheLion]

To the smokers: How much would you pay to spend 15 minutes in a smoking room?

The thing of it is: there has always been a smoking section for smokers, everywhere. It wasn't until 1998 that the anti-smokers started working to take this away from people who choose to smoke a legal commodity. Everyone knows that people smoke in a smoking section. Yet, that wasn't enough for the anti's. They didn't WANT anyone to have this section.

So, here we sit. Working to get back a right that we never should have lost in the first place.

[Great Dane]

#57........ Point is, they could have left things as they were, end of discussion.

[freedom1st]

I would not call Denver a smoker friendly airport. Had to change planes in Denver on way to Vegas. I found the one smoking area in the lounge after looking for 20 minutes. After I got to lounge, was not allowed to stay and smoke unless I bought a drink. Min. drink price (Coke) was $3. Talk about rip off. Now I make sure I never go through Denver when flying.