In response to growing complaints from travelers, acting City Manager David Nickerson has issued an order to permit smoking in the Colorado Springs Airport.

"This seems like a reasonable thing to do, provided the smokers have a special place and are isolated from the nonsmokers," Nickerson said. "I don't see anything wrong with trying it."

More than 200,000 travelers use the airport every month. Smoking has been banned since the airport opened in October 1994 because of an order handed down in 1992 by then-City Manager Richard Zickefoose.