Originally Posted by bzado

At LHR, there is a smoking area at T2 near Gate A1, the existence of which, I had amusingly once debated with the lounge dragon at T3. When she insisted with finality that no such place existed, I made the journey out there and brought back photographic proof.

It is really too bad the situation is so dire in the UK (as are the ludicrous plain packaging laws and the lack of flavored cigarettes) because there are some rather nice smoking lounges at airports around the world (e.g., the well-designed outdoor zones in KEF, RIX, and LCA, while in SOF & OTP you can smoke indoors in special areas of the business lounges). Even in the famously puritan US of A, where the government seems to likewise be a firm believer in morally policing its citizens, many airports have smoking rooms.