Indoor smoking lounges at South Korean airports will gradually be shut down and outdoor smoking areas will be relocated further away from zones with passenger traffic, authorities said today. Smoking areas will be rearranged at the 14 airports nationwide to reflect the changing social perception of smoking and second-hand smoke,
Smoking Airport Bans
Denver International Airport closes last smoking lounge
DENVER (AP) — Denver International Airport has decided to become a smoke-free facility. KMGH-TV reports that the airport’s last smoking lounge closed Wednesday night (March 1). The Colorado Tobacco Free Alliance is celebrating the closure. It says the alliance launched a campaign to make the airport smoke-free in June 2008. TODAY IN
2019 Smoking banned inside Thailand’s airports
Bangkok, 13 February 2019: The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) strongly supports Thailand’s move to ban smoking inside the passenger buildings of all its airports to protect employees and non-smoking travelers from exposure to secondhand smoke. On 3 February 2019, the Airports of Thailand PCL (AoT) management removed all
2018 Total ban on smoking at Prague airport
A total ban on smoking came into effect at Prague’s Václav Havel Airport on Tuesday. Previous smoking areas in the facility’s transit areas have been done away with and the ban also applies to electronic cigarettes. Operators said they expected the number of smoke-free airports to grow and wished to