Summary
Belfast International has begun charging people £1 for using the airport’s smoking area. Smoking is not allowed anywhere else inside or outside the airport. According to the airport, the special smoking area is a specialist facility which only caters to a small number of users, which is why it’s unreasonable that they charge people to use it. Pro-smoking group Forest is in favor of the facility, because it shows that the airport is making provisions for traveling smokers. The airport has also said that it will use all of the revenue for the maintenance of the smoking facility.
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I personally think it is ridiculous that Belfast International is charging people for smoking at the airport. While it is logical that people aren’t allowed to smoke in the common areas of the airport, there is absolutely no sensible reason why people should not be allowed to light up a cigarette outside. The airport management, however, makes it sound like there was no other option but to build an expensive smoking facility. Not allowing people to smoke in the open air and forcing them to pay a £1 charge to use some enclosed smoking box seems like nothing but an pathetic attempt at some extra revenue to me.
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