Mowgli-- you have obviously forgotten what it is like to sit in the tiny 737 flight-deck with THREE others puffing away!! The FO's who began this thread tell me that this still happens! The argument put out by those who tolerate it is that these captains have been smoking for years and could not operate otherwise! From the amount of ash I still see around the nose-steering wheel it hasn't abated yet! I'm told that one particular gent doesn't even go through the pretence of asking first! I spent many years as an FO with a well known UK airline where most of the Captains smoked all the time and not just cigarettes but cigars and pipes! I hated it and suffered more coughs and colds than I ever do now-- but that was over 15 years ago! Times have changed or haven't they?