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Old Sep 21, 2016, 9:37 am
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Originally Posted by AlastairGordon
The smoking situation was horrible.
My first flight to US was in 1998 from Russia on IL-86. Smoking was allowed until plane entered US airspace. Almost half of the cabin was chain-smoking and they almost rioted when it was announced that smoking is not allowed any more.
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