Thank you for smoking in the airport

Comment

Unreasonable to forbid smoking

I support the efforts to forbid smoking, but am not optimistic about the results. You can’t completely get rid of smoking. Passengers and customers have various needs and demands. As the government and airport, you can persuade them to reduce smoking, but forbidding it won’t work.

– Laoyanmin, netizen

Determination of airport?

There are non-smoking airports around the world. The reopening of part of the smoking areas might bring trouble. Are you not determined to be a non-smoking airport? Are you meeting the demand of the authorities to shut down all 36 smoking areas?

The airport should have conducted a comprehensive initiative to shut down the smoking areas and come up with some alternative ways to meet the demands of smokers.

– Yang Jie, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Embarrassing

The reopening of smoking areas shows what an embarrassment smoking control efforts are in China. The effort requires the help of the government and citizens alike.

The campaign to persuade smokers to give up their habit is a comprehensive task. We should not let “don’t smoke” be merely a slogan.

– Yang Shouqi, Xi’an Evening News

Binding laws are needed

The difficulty in preventing smoking comes from smokers’ ignorance of the harmful effects. We have many proposals, initiatives and campaigns, but we don’t have a law to forbid and control smoking, which reduces the effects of these proposals and campaigns.

– Xie Zhiyong, director, Health Laws Research Center, China University of Political Science and Law