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Public scrutiny of airport directors nationwide has intensified in recent years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], following media reports of lavish spending on trips to exotic destinations, pricey hotels and meals.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The former director of Kentucky’s Blue Grass Airport was convicted on criminal theft charges this summer after state auditors tallied $500,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 in questionable expenses incurred by him and other top airport officials, including Broadway tickets, shotguns, video game systems and cigars.
In Indianapolis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the airport director there was recently criticized for spending four of 15 months on the road, visiting cities in England and Malaysia on the airport’s dime. Just last week it was reported that the director of Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas has reimbursed the airport $3,000 for expenses he had claimed were business related and has publicly apologized for authorizing a $40,000 payment to his son’s school for a football field advertisement promoting the airport’s website.
None of Damelio’s business expenses appear so extravagant or out of place �D except for the tobacco.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Records show he takes about 15 business trips a year, mostly to New York City, Boston and Washington, and the bulk of his expenses are for hotels and meals. But during a two-day junket to Boston and New York City in March 2009, Damelio charged the airport credit card $612 for six visits to four different cigar establishments.
One was Cigar Masters in Boston,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a lounge that sells beer, wine, cheese and crackers. The others were smoke shops. He has on many occasions spent hundreds of dollars at pricey restaurants and has charged nearly $5,000 in private car services. Several of the transportation costs lacked receipts. But, as Slate detailed in this cool map, the drop in smokers isn’t happening everywhere at the same rate, and it isn’t necessarily happening among the people you’d expect.
Slate mapped the latest data about cigarette smoking by state and county, and the trends it reveals are really interesting. For instance, nearly 20% of the populations in Kentucky and West Virginia regularly lights up. Less than 10% do in California and Connecticut.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. This map shows data from both counties and states, using figures from an annual nationwide survey of more than 400,000 people. The state-by-state map also breaks out the numbers by age group, and by whether people smoke regularly or occasionally.
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