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Editorial
Tobacco exceptionalism in airports: time to address gaps
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  1. Ruth E Malone
  1. Correspondence to Professor Ruth E Malone, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; ruth.malone{at}ucsf.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052723

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    As I write this, I am preparing for a trip by air to attend a meeting. It is not a long flight, but the flight experience will be very different than it would have been years ago. Yes, passengers have to go through much more intensive screening before boarding the aircraft. Meals are no longer being served on short-haul flights as they once were; instead, we are offered overpriced salt-filled, sugar-filled and fat-filled ‘snack boxes’. Every seat on the plane will probably be filled, and the overhead bins stuffed to the gills. However, those less pleasant changes for me are more than offset by a change for the better: smoke-free flights.

    It is hard to imagine now, but not so long ago, it was considered completely normal to smoke cigarettes …

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