I'm old enough to remember when passengers could smoke on flights without any problems, in fact, just over 20 years ago on a flight from Hong Kong to LHR, we stopped in Bahrain to disgorge/collect new passengers and what should have been an hour, turned into 8 hours on the tarmac. The flight had originated in Perth so some people had been on the plane for 15 or so hours already. Not a worry for the smokers, we just lit up.

So now you know, I'm a smoker of around 15 a day and it is a struggle initially once I'm airside but my mind tells me I can't smoke so it isn't a massive problem. Although, to be fair, if I was mid flight, or in the lounge & I was able to smoke, then I would but I can't so I don't. I did struggle when in the lounge on Wednesday though, so I nipped out to Boots & bought some Nicorette chewing gum to ease the pangs and it worked. I probably chewed my way through 3 all told, over a 9:45 flight + the lounge time of around 2 or so hours, I'm impressed with myself.*

I'm sort of understanding where the passenger is coming from, purely from a fellow smoker's point of view, but on the other hand, there are aids to ease cravings so buy them, they aren't expensive, I paid £4.99 for my pack of gum, hardly expensive and had the passenger on this flight bought some, it might just have seen him/her through. BTW, where is PUJ? What sort of flight time are we talking about here?

*I know smoking is a filthy habit and when I am ready to stop, I'll stop but I'm not there yet and like T1891 (apologies if I've got that wrong, I'm jet-lagged), I like to think I'm pretty considerate of non smokers when outside.