Originally Posted by
PTravel
I remember well the days when aircraft had smoking sections. I hated to sit there -- it was always smelly and smoky and, of course, in the very back of the plane. I'd sit in the non-smoking section and, if the urge hit me, walk back for a quick smoke.
I was on a flight from Frankfurt to the U.S. back when smoking was allowed, and there was a group of 30 or so German smokers aboard who had been booked in the smoking section. They were taking turns moving to the back of the cabin sitting on one or two empty seats and smoking. I was in the very last row of non-smoking and it was killing me. But it was also killing the smokers, just because they had non-stop smoking next to them.
The cabin got so smokey that and some of the passengers were getting sick, so the pilot finally banned smoking on the entire flight for an hour or two, and the Germans were banned from sitting in the empty seats to smoke.