The council legislation would ban all smoking at the airport, city facilities and specified public places.

ATLANTA — In the years since smoking in public has fallen out of fashion in most areas, many airports around the nation have developed smoking lounge to accommodate cigarette and cigar smokers.

In more recent years, users of e-cigarettes and vape pens have also been accommodated in similar facilities.

But as health concerns surrounding smoking have become far more common place and smoking, overall, have fallen out of favor, the use of smoking rooms in airports around the nation has fallen.

At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, there are presently six enclosed smoking lounges, along with two separate areas near gates T-4 and T-13. In addition, there are designated outdoor smoking areas near the curb in both the arrivals and departures area at both the North and South Terminals.

The Atlanta City Council says they will consider legislation on Monday which will prohibit smoking and vaping entirely at Hartsfield-Jackson as well as at other city facilities, along with specified public places.

“We want to make sure every resident, tourist and worker has the ability and right to breathe smoke-free air,” said the primary sponsor of the legislation, city councilman Matt Westmoreland (Post 2, At Large).