Where there's a will, there's a way

• Source: Global Times
• [09:40 July 01 2010]
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"I was taking a rest under the shade when a middle-aged man came and sat next to me and lit up his cigarette, paying no attention to me, or the child growing inside my belly," Yang Linlin, a visitor and expectant mother, told the Global Times Wednesday. "I don't even know how he managed to have a lighter since the park bans visitors from bringing them in."

According to staffers who smoke inside the park, sneaking lighters in is quite easy.

"If we don't have a bag, we don't need to go through the security check," a security guard, who was smoking near the media shuttle bus station at the park, told the Global Times Wednesday. "So, I just keep a lighter and cigarettes in my pocket."

Another smoker, who works for the Italy Pavilion, uses a different trick.

"I get my lighter in by tucking it into my belt - security misses my lighter because they think it's the metal buckle on my belt that's making the scanner beep," the man who preferred to not to disclose his name, and who was smoking near the pavilion, told the Global Times Wednesday.

"I don't have time to go to the smoking areas because the nearest one is too far away," he said.

"I let visitors borrow my lighter all the time," he added. "If I were them I'd want to smoke, too."