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Old May 13, 2008, 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by alanR
They aren't allowed anymore after the DHS heard a rumour from a friend of a friend who'd heard from his barber's mother sister-in-law that al-Qaeda were going to smoke on a plane and give everyone lung cancer
I heard that they were being confiscated on the basis that the tobacco could be combined with tap water in the lavs to make a chaw that could then be spat upon the crew in violation of Federal Law.
Please obey all instructions, all lighted signs and placards, and no chaw.
Dave
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