Smoking Booths
We’re all used to the persecution of smokers across the civilized globe by now. However Copenhagen Airport struck me as particularly cruel.
This is Europe, so there are significantly more smokers than elsewhere, and airports in Europe normally have smoking zones/areas/rooms. Unlike SeaTac, where smokers get to use the kerb at baggage claim – in designated areas only.
For the smoking addicted, Copenhagen has booths. Like telephone booths. Where you get to stand, by yourself, in a little clear coffin and puff away in full view of the people disembarking from the transatlantic flights. (For some people I’m sure it is a blessing the booths are before the immigration lines.) This severely limits the social aspects to lung disease such as smirting (, ).
What struck me (beyond the mild-mannered torture of the actively smoking) is the snaking lines of people lining up for their turn in the booth, with various different physical postures of anxious, relaxed, cool and bored. Waiting for their turn in the booth.
