Originally Posted by You want to go where?

Originally Posted by You want to go where?
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Sorry, there are some intuitive leaps that may need to be made depending on what you read. Here is the very short synopsis. In the AC797 incident, there was a fire in the lav (not caused by smoking). However, in response to that incident, they required smoke detectors to be installed in the lavs, and, as a consequence, also banned smoking in the lavs. So, the ban on smoking lavs was imposed for safety reasons, but not specifically because a cigarette in the lav caused a fire. That said, the concern about people disposing of lit cigarettes in the trash was, I presume, a contributing concern. It was not the second-hand smoke concern which drove the later overall ban on smoking on planes.