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Posted by vesperae
on November 9, 2008, 7:02 pm, in reply to "Airport Lounge Conversation"
I've noticed that the few remaining lounges and outdoor adjacent smoking areas at airports and other public facilities tend to be very poorly maintained. Boxed in lounges and smaller outdoor designated smoking areas mean that the effects of smoking tend to get very concentrated, whereas they used to be much more diluted, and therefore less apparent, in the much larger, more open, and more numerous smoking areas that we used to have.
But I also suspect that there is a little social engineering going on here, at least to some degree, and at least in some cases. I think that there are probably a significant number of facilities planners and managers out there with AS feelings who deliberately use inadequate ventilation, and who deliberately don't schedule adequate cleaning, the outcome of which then suggests or reinforces an AS message along the lines of a zoo display: "Ewww...look at the filthy smokers in the filthy room feeding their filthy habits!"
It certainly requires at least a Darker sense of humor to use one of these rooms anymore. That is, of course, when you can actually *find* one... 
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