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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
Do you know how many times passengers have been fined $5000 for smoking on US/EU/AU based carriers? Or have they been arrested, spoken to by police, and released?
Brief search found a Bloomberg article from 2010 that indicates without specificity that fining pax happens (though not as often as I personally feel they should be).
Still, posting a max fine of US$5,000 is a deterrent. Posting a max fine of US$235 is a joke.