(Atlanta) Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
Department of Aviation 6000 North Terminal Parkway Suite 435 Atlanta Ga. 30320(10 miles south of Atlanta)
Phone: 1 404 209 1700 or 404 530 7300 // Fax: 1 404 209 2942 or 404 530 7374
Email: webmaster [at] atlanta-airport.com // Web: www.atlanta-airport.com
Official Airport Policy
Smoking is not generally permitted in the airport terminal and concourses public areas. However, there are established designated smoking areas inside the airport.
Notes
- Smoking is permitted in 11 doorless smoking rooms in concourses A, B, C, E, and T, as well as in two bars in concourses A and D. Internal tobacco industry documents show that many of these rooms were designed, constructed, and financed by Philip Morris front-groups as part of a sophisticated airport strategy to protect millions of dollars in tobacco industry annual profits within the airport. Promoting the social acceptability of smoking was also an important objective for the tobacco industry during its campaign for smoking areas in the Hartsfield Airport: construction of the smoking rooms was completed in time for the 1996 Summer Olympics, held in Atlanta, which drew millions of passengers from around the world through Hartsfield and past its newly built smoking lounges.
Each lounge is equipped with an "air-curtain" that supposedly prevents smoke from drifting out of the lounges and into the lungs of thousands of travelers and employees. These "air-curtains", however, are nothing more than a public relations ploy, as studies have proven that they do not effectively prevent the flow of smoke from inside the smoking room to the outside. All credible technical experts agree that the only way to effectively protect nonsmokers is to create a completely smokefree environment, as all ventilation systems can only address odor and comfort, and NOT the hazardous effects of secondhand smoke (see our page about the Ventilation Lie).
Please write a letter to Benjamin DeCosta urging the airport to stop supporting Big Tobacco's bad habits and to adopt a smokefree policy. Remind him that even the tobacco industry has acknowledged that ventilation systems do not address the health effects attributed to secondhand smoke - they just make smoking areas more "comfortable." Insist that he adopt a smokefree policy in the Atlanta airport and stop harming the health of airport patrons and employees.
Benjamin R. DeCosta, Aviation General Manager
Department of Aviation
6000 N Terminal Parkway
P.O. Box 20509
Atlanta, GA 30320
Ph: (404) 530-6600 (direct line)
Fax: (404) 530-6803
Email: Go to http://www.atlanta-airport.com/, click "Customer Feedback" then "Tell Us What You Think"
Smoking is allowed in designated areas within the airport at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Smoking rooms are located on all of the concourses except D in the airport. There are a few restaurants/bars that allow smoking which includes one on D concourse.