No Smoking on US Flights - 25th Anniversary
Feb 24, 2015, 8:36 am
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I remember my first years flying between the U.S. and U.K....early 90's, 3-4 R/T's a year, usually in the first two or three rows of coach. There was always smoke filtering back from J...
I think the ban on smoking on all flights to or from the U.S. came in the mid-90's. (?) It was a few years after the domestic ban.
I think the ban on smoking on all flights to or from the U.S. came in the mid-90's. (?) It was a few years after the domestic ban.
Feb 24, 2015, 9:09 am
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Although there may have been the odd airline that allowed these, typically cigarettes only. I was always much less bothered by pipe and cigar smoke than by cigarette smoke, so I would rather have had people smoking pipes/cigars, but I'm apparently an oddity, as most people were more bothered by the pipes/cigars.
Feb 24, 2015, 12:34 pm
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Feb 24, 2015, 2:41 pm
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Feb 24, 2015, 2:57 pm
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We have one little town near me that still has smoking in bars. Therefore, if you go to a bar in that town, EVERY smoker from a 100-mile radius is there. Anyone who misses smoking flights should just drop in for a beer or two. (You'll have to go home and launder all of your clothing, including shoelaces, afterwards...)
Feb 24, 2015, 3:17 pm
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Smoking is still very common in Vienna. Lots of smoking in bars, even in the lobby bars at some hotels. When we asked, we were told that Austria's smoking laws are still rather old-fashioned. I had completely forgotten how quickly and easily your clothes begin to smell like cigarette smoke, a smell I used to associate with taking my weekend clothes to the dry cleaner on Monday mornings.
I can't even imagine what it was like to be a frequent flyer when smoking was allowed in-flight. Hours upon hours of that stale, recycled air, filled with cigarette smoke, several days a week? Oh my.
I can't even imagine what it was like to be a frequent flyer when smoking was allowed in-flight. Hours upon hours of that stale, recycled air, filled with cigarette smoke, several days a week? Oh my.
Feb 24, 2015, 4:55 pm
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We have one little town near me that still has smoking in bars. Therefore, if you go to a bar in that town, EVERY smoker from a 100-mile radius is there. Anyone who misses smoking flights should just drop in for a beer or two. (You'll have to go home and launder all of your clothing, including shoelaces, afterwards...)
I remember the "bar-car" from the Long Island railroad.....OMG!! My friend who was a smoker made me go in there and she said there was too much smoke!!!
Feb 24, 2015, 5:11 pm
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Prior to the smoking ban, I used to fly twice per year to visit family in Finland from the west coast, usually connecting in LAX to the Finnair nonstop offered at the time. One time, due to some seat assignment mix-up, my seat was changed and I was placed me deep in the economy smoking section. I was probably 8 or 9 years old at the time. My grandfather lived near LAX and had come to the terminal to help me with the connection. He pointed out it was hardly appropriate to put an unaccompanied child into the smoking section, but as economy was full they ended up bumping me to first or business class or whatever they called it at the time. My first upgrade!
Feb 24, 2015, 10:59 pm
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I remember flying LHR-DTW in December of 1985. 742 I assume. I was smoking camels. I was a senior in high school. I met some hot junior from CMH and made out. Hilarious.
Feb 25, 2015, 7:05 am
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Moderator note.
Let's keep this thread focused on the 25th Anniversary of curtailment of smoking on airplanes and related topics like what it was like before and after.
Discussion of e-cigarettes on planes or in travel situations, particularly their effects, is best discussed in threads already established for that topic, such as this one:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...decisions.html
Thanks, Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator.
Discussion of e-cigarettes on planes or in travel situations, particularly their effects, is best discussed in threads already established for that topic, such as this one:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...decisions.html
Thanks, Ocn Vw 1K, Moderator.
Feb 25, 2015, 7:23 am
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