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AL-SULAIMAN: Smoke, no one cares 

The only time when it is guaranteed that you will not find anyone smoking in our airports is during Ramadan daylight hours.

This is the only time that the “No Smoking” sign is respected. If it isn’t Ramadan, the airport is full of cigarette smoke. . . .

no one knows who is responsible for enforcing the smoking ban or who to complain when someone is smoking in these areas. To add fuel to fire, the airport employees, immigration officers and others are seen smoking in the terminals. The only airport workers not smoking are the cleaners.

When someone suggested that the government should ban smoking in public places, I just laughed.

When airports, where tight security should be implemented, fail to enforce the ban on smoking then how would the government ban it in public places?

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