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Smoking in airports. Where you can still light up.

07/01/24

Smoking on airplanes flying to, from or within the United States has been banned since 2000. Most airports in the United States are completely smoke-free. But there are still a few US Airports where you can still light up. Smoking at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas At Harry Reid International Airport in Las →

No more smoking at Charleston Int’l Airport

09/05/21

There are still a few airports around the country that accommodate smoking inside the terminals. According to the American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation, as of July 1, 2021, four of the top 35 US airports have smoking spaces: McCarran International Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas, Washington Dulles Airport (IAD), TGIF at Miami International Airport (MIA), and →

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Smoking still allowed at most of world’s busiest airports

11/24/17

Smoking is still allowed at most of the world's 50 busiest airports. →

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No more smoking – soon – at Salt Lake City Int’l Airport

06/13/16

The smoking rate in the U.S. is on the decline. That's just one reason Salt Lake City International Airport is closing its smoking lounges. →

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Salt Lake City Airport to close smoking lounges

05/24/16

Salt Lake City International Airport will phase out its smoking lounges. Finally. →

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Travel Tidbits: e-cigs, Cuba & mascots

03/03/16

Travel Tidbits: E-cigarettes now banned on flights on U.S. flights; every airline wants to fly to Cuba; and Frontier Airlines might put your school's mascot on one of its planes. →

At the Airport: year-end review

01/03/16

At the Airport: year-end review. Here's a round-up of the At the Airport columns I wrote for USA TODAY in 2015. Topics include: airport hotels, smoking at airport, airport lactation stations, cannabis policies at airports, airport carpets and more. →

Should airports have smoking rooms?

08/27/15

The debate over airport smoking rooms is flaring up again. In May, just a few months after the 25th anniversary of the federal law banning smoking on domestic U.S. flights, Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, posted a photo on Facebook and Twitter giving thumbs down to smoking rooms at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International →

Selfies at airports that OK smoking

07/14/15

If you start noticing people standing outside airport smoking rooms taking thumbs-down selfies, here’s why: Inspired by the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, who posted a selfie of himself on Facebook giving thumbs down to a smoking room at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport airport, the non-profit Americans for NonSmokers’ Rights is starting a selfie →

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Boutique cigars on sale at MIA Int’l Airport

01/31/15

Miami International Airport is developing a locally-themed marketplace in the North Terminal, (between gates D-26 and D-29) and plans to fill it with shops and restaurants that offer a sampling of Miami’s diverse demographics. A Miami Marlins store opened in the marketplace in December and this week the airport celebrated the opening of a branch →

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