UK: familiar smell at the airport
Travellers passing though London’s two largest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, in recent months have noticed two things: special smoking booths, open-topped and see-though, equipped with banks of expensive-looking ventilation and filtration units; and—unsurprisingly—an all-pervasive, unpleasant smell of tobacco smoke. What they have witnessed is the outcome of a tobacco industry project going back many years, a hi-tech development within the “accommodation” strategy.
Companies that are bitter competitors in the marketplace have long worked in harmony to try to get ventilation equipment manufacturers …
