Bravo ADNEC

Well it had to happen somewhere, sometime. As of last Sunday, the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre became one of a few venues in the area to become completely non-smoking. It's the only way some of us smokers can cut down. The smoking area has now moved from literally the other side of my office door, to down two floors and outside. And believe it or not, it has helped most of us cut down. Not because the 2 flights and of steps and then a further 10 metres is hard to do, but because, when you're in a suit, going outside into the 40 degree heat and blazing sunshine just for a fag is not exactly comfortable.

Fair play to them, everyone seems to be following the rules, but there's only a few of us who work in the offices there now. It'll be interesting to see when the exhibition season kicks off again after the summer and visitors start coming in to the shows to see how well the non-smoking works.