The World’s Busiest Airport is About to Ban Smoking

July 22, 2019
Thanks to a new, enhanced ordinance in Atlanta banning smoking and vaping in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport will snuff out its smoking lounges on Jan. 2, 2020.

Salt Lake City International Airport did it in 2016. Denver International Airport did it in 2018.

And, thanks to a new, enhanced ordinance in Atlanta banning smoking and vaping in bars, restaurants and other enclosed public spaces, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which has held the title of world’s busiest airport for many years, will snuff out its smoking lounges on Jan. 2, 2020.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/21/atlantas-airport-to-ban-smoking-as-places-to-light-up-get-harder-to-find.html

Photos by Ingrid Barrentine & Joe Nicholson, Alaska Airlines