Brussels Airport:Smokers room Concourse B

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At Brussels Airport a general non-smoking policy is applicable. Not only the departing passenger but also the growing number of transfer passengers requested the possibility to smoke. As from December 2009 an exception will be applied to the non-smoking policy. A new, first, smokers room will be opened halfway Concourse B, located next to the Bar (at gate B17).

Brussels Airport monthly news October 2009

Tobacco smoke is a poisonous and deadly gas that cannot, under any circumstance, be confined to one area no matter how well closed off or ventilated.

I would love to travel more, but because there are so many airports that continue to include smoking rooms I cannot. I have asthma exacerbated by even the smallest amount of tobacco smoke. Years ago I would try flying into airports where they thought secluding smoking guests was acceptable. I suffered so severely that after one visit I was confined to bed with life-threatening bronchitis and could not even attend my father's funeral.

The last time I flew, the nearest 100% smoke-free airport was over 300 miles from my destination and I had to rent a car and drive the rest of the way.

Obviously if a smoking room is added to your airport we will not be flying there.

Jacque Petterson
San Antonio, Texas

I'm truly sorry about your allergy problems, Jacque, but you shoud understand you are a tiny minority. What will you do at BRU when you go to the restrooms/toilets and smell tobacco ? Because this is what people do at "smoke-free" airports, they go to the toilets to smoke. At BRU very often you can smell tobacco in the toilets, at least this is my experience. So, an airport which is smoke-free in theory is not smoke-free in practice unless you make sure not to use the toilets. As a non smoker, I am totally in favor of the "smoking lounges" as they exist, e.g. in FRA,MUC and ZRH. They let people smoke in a small area with practically no inconvenience to the vast majority of travellers and consequently these smokers behave in a less aggressive way to fellow passengers and cabin crew.