GREENSBORO — Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em through the end of next month inside the terminal at Piedmont Triad International Airport.
Starting Sept. 1, passengers, visitors and workers at the airport only will be able to smoke outside.
The Piedmont Triad Airport Authority, reflecting new restrictions passed earlier this year by the N.C. General Assembly, will prohibit all cigarette and other tobacco smoking, eliminating a pair of designated indoor smoking areas.
The authority, the airport’s governing board, unanimously passed the new rule during its monthly meeting in the board room at PTIA.
The airport currently allows people to smoke in the bar area of the central section of the terminal and the adjacent smoking lounge.
Effective Sept. 1, people will be permitted to smoke only outside, such as in the covered parking and waiting areas of the lower and upper sections of the terminal.
”There will be no smoking at all inside the terminal building,” said authority Chairman Henry Isaacson, a Greensboro attorney and civic leader.
The airport will post smoking prohibition signs and change the automated recording played in the terminal to reflect the indoor smoking ban, Isaacson said.
The resolution passed by the authority indicates that “the terminal building is important for the health, comfort and convenience of the public and of persons working within the terminal building.”
source: http://www.news-record.com/
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