New Chitose Airport
新千歳空港


北海道の経済・文化の中心地・札幌市の南東約40kmに位置する国内線の基幹空港で、国際線や国内線の拠点空港に
区分される。空港の利用者数は国内で5番目に多い。北海道では最大の空港で、鉄道や高速道路もよく整備されており
実質的に北海道の空の玄関口となっている。

New Chitose Airport, Hokkaido

Source: The University of Texas Libraries

JAL aircraft is approaching and landing to New Chitose International Airport.


New Chitose Airport is an airport in the Sapporo metropolitan area. It is the largest airport in Hokkaido.
It served over 18,000,000 passengers in 2006, the third in Japan after Narita and Haneda.

New Chitose Airport station platform is located on B1F of the terminal building. The station is a spur
off the Chitose Line of JR Hokkaido. Rapid train services are in operation to and from Sapporo Station.
It links the airport and city within 40 minutes.


Interior of the terminal building in 2009 (L) and in 2020 (R)

No-smoking sign plate posted at the entrance of restaurants and bars. Total smoking ban has been going on since July 2006.



Smoking Rooms in the New Chitose Airport


(L) A large tobacco advertisement in the smoking booth
(R) AED ( automated external defibrillator ) besides of smoking booth
(L)閉鎖式喫煙室にはタバコの大きな広告(2006年撮影)  
(R)救命行為が簡単に出来るようにAED(自動体外式除細動器)が設置されたのは喫煙行為に対する警告?(2006年撮影) 

Air-separated smoking booths

A special smoking space equipped with a 'state-of-the-art' ventilation system, 'SMOKERS STYLE',
provided by Japan Tobacco Inc., at the New Citose Airport, Hokkaido. There is no entrance and/or exit door.
Photographed in September 2009. 
「誘引吸引分煙システム」とJTが自称する扉のない喫煙室「SMOKERS STYLE」 (2009年撮影)


危険性の高い扉のない誘引吸引分煙システム

タバコ会社は全面禁煙には絶対反対で、常に分煙方式を主張している。北海道、新千歳空港ターミナルには
JTご自慢の「扉のない」自動吸引システムを設置しているが、扉近くに行くとかすかにタバコの臭いが漂う。
拡散されて気付かれていないタバコの有害副流煙はさらに広範囲に周囲にまき散らされていることが想定
される。近くで働く空港勤務者は常に肺癌や心臓病など健康上の危険にさらされている可能性は低くない。
今、世界中の空港が喫煙室を廃止して全面禁煙へ移行するのか、こうした姑息的な手段でごまかしているが、
そうした手法がまかり通るのは日本という国情なのだろう。一日でも早い空港内全面禁煙への移行が必要で
あり、国民の誰もがクリーンな環境で生活を続ける権利がある。


Smoking restriction of the world airports


Airport smoking rooms

Tobacco industry promotes the construction of designated smoking rooms as a way to sidetrack
efforts not to lose many smokers. A various study showed that nicotine-vapor air monitoring in
a non-smoking area of the airport, next to a smoking room located in the Terminal, reveals elevated
levels of ambient-nicotine-vapor in excess of what would be expected in a completely smokefree
environment. Japan Tobacco Inc.(JT) introduced a strong aspiration and deflation systems of
tobacco smoke. The company said it provide a comfort effect to both smokers and nonsmokers.
However, when we are in the area near the door-less entrance to smoking room, we feel somewhat
sick. An adverse effect to human health is not a so small, allergic reaction to tobacco smoke
may become evident. A chronic effect to an employer working in the airport terminal will include
cancer and heart disease.

Smoking room at the New Chitose Airport should be abandoned, in order to keep people staying
in the terminal healthier.
Junhaku Miyamoto,M.D.,PhD. September 2009


(L) Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) is studying about the air flow in a smoking room to try to oppose a total prohibition.
Blue plate represents smoking area, red plate non-smoking area.
(M)(R) Smoking space in New Chitose Airport

(L) Door-less entrance/exit of the smoking space
(M) JT insists to provide a ventilated smoking space in indoor public buildings.
(R) Japan Tobacco Inc.(JT), here, is campaigning about a strong aspiration power of tobacco smoke.


会社の方針としてあくまでも分煙を推し進めている。あたかも分煙でタバコ有害煙 を阻止できると錯覚させるのが
戦略で、まやかしに過ぎない。

(扉のない喫煙スペースからは少しずつ体に有害なガス状の粒子が外部に漏れだしている。JTのテレビ広告から)


Japan Tobacco Inc. insists to keep a smoking room in all public places, including an airport terminal.
The researchers of the company propose the various separate smoking systems, like in the terminal
buildings in New Chitose Airport, Hokkaido. There is no entrance and/or exit door at the smoking room.
They claim tobacco smoke may not flow into a passenger waiting lobby. The company had been tried
every possible means to oppose a total smoking ban. Above scenes are photographed from the TV
commercial sponsored by the Japan Tobacco Inc..

Tobacco industry promotes to establish a separate smoking room in a restaurant and pub for smokers,
 trying to control the mind of all Japanese people by a repeated TV commercial. 
 分煙推進で洗脳行為するタバコ会社
Japan Tobacco Inc. is supporting aggressive street smoking bans in order to foil to prevent a clean indoor air act?
Total smoking ban in JR Hokkaido trains JR北海道は全面禁煙
All restaurants in the New Chitose Airport are smokefree.
「国内の主な空港で初めて」新千歳空港ターミナルビルの飲食店が、すべて全面禁煙と
Smoking rooms in a local airport in Japan 地方空港での喫煙対応
  Okadama Airport, Sapporo を含む
Sapporo Tour 2018
High-speed train vs Aircraft 航空機と高速鉄道


千歳空港喫煙規制

執筆 医学博士 宮本順伯
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This information was provided by the Smokefree Hotel and Travel.
The article was written and photographs were taken in September 2009,
and finally revised in October 2020, by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
Copyright (C) 2009 Junhaku Miyamoto, PhD. All right is reserved.



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