Anti-Smokers

I don't particularly care if you smoke. Do what you want. I just ask you don't smoke next to me...I can't stand the smell. Of course, I have the same opinion about overly perfumed/hairsprayed and/or unwashed people as well. I have not personal problem with smoking/non smoking sections. I think it's a great way to allow everyone to have the freedom to choose. I'm all for nonsmoking in public areas, but if a resturant has a "private" club that caters to the perpetually addicted, well, no problem there. so don't yell at me when you read the next line......

On the flip side. Why should my plane ticket cost more becuase they had to build a special area just for you? expecially when outside is free?

Actually, we paid extra to have access to the lounge between flights. If you've never been in one, they're huge - plenty of room to throw up some glass walls with a door in them at an inconsequential added cost to every end user. I mean we're talking less than pennies because once it's constructed, it's constructed. I'd warrant that if you added 1 penny to every ticket purchased for a given airlines, they could construct a glass palace to smoke in. But you bring up an interesting point. The glass walls aren't consumable...but...read on.

Once you gain passage to these lounges, part of the ammenities is a free, completely stocked bar where people just go serve themselves beer, wine, hard liquor, etc...so I could ask the question why should I have to pay a higher price to get in this lounge if I'm not going to drink. It's a double standard that is my complaint. It's ok for people to eat the free food that's bad for them and drink the free alcohol which is potentially bad. Areas are constructed for people to set up laptops even though not everyone has a laptop. All that I and the rest of us lepers want is a tiny little colony to watch our lungs fall off in. With all the other habits they support, I wouldn't think that an unfair thing to ask considering the huge amount of money that the consumables of the lounge must cost.

So for your ticket cost, it's a fair question, but it's not applicable. Fact is, you pay for these lounges every time you fly - no matter how they are constructed, who uses them, and what is done in them. They're a part of the debit column on the ledger books of the airline. Your ticket is in the credit column. Granted, a lot of the maintenance and stocking costs come from the people that pay extra to get in and use them, but I find it a stretch to believe that some amount of the overall revenue of the airline isn't earmarked for this purpose as well. It would be an interesting thing to find out the fact on - you might have a valid complaint not just against making a smoking area that you wouldn't use, but in fact, of making an entire LOUNGE you never use - assuming you're willing to wage that legal battle to have a penny subtracted off your air fare

On the flip side. Why should my plane ticket cost more because they had to build a special area just for you? especially when outside is free?

forget the terminal - see the plane and the hostess - "sir you cant smoke that in here - please step outside" - a la free smoking zone...

Seriously though, I used to smoke 30 odd a day and I really think smokers rights have been trampled on severely.

I cannot stand the smell of smoke now, my airways just constrict and I cannot breathe when I smell smoke, they say ex smokers are the worst moaning minnies of the lot.