Salt Lake City International Airport has five ventilated smoking rooms, one in each terminal. "Providing the rooms provides less exposure to secondhand smoke to the public." "If we don't provide the smoking rooms for people, we have found that people smoke in public areas," Salt Lake airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann said. In addition to Salt Lake City, other airports that allow smoking in designated areas include Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas and the Denver International Airport.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that air quality in those airports is much worse than airports that ban indoor smoking completely, proving dangerous to the more than 110 million passengers who pass through the five airports each year. SALT LAKE CITY - Air travelers can largely avoid secondhand smoke en route, but going in and out of airports, and to and from arriving and departing gates within those airports, might be harmful to one's health.įive of the nation's 29 largest airports, including Salt Lake City International, allow smoking in designated areas that are accessible to the general public.Ī new report by the U.S.
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