You willl never stop alcohol or drug usage by some passengers on some flights. Nor will you stop the smokers puffing in the toilets nor pax drinking their duty free, nor even fornication and fellatio in First Class. This sort of prohibition is impossible to achieve.
I am sure that many of us have had problems with troublesome passengers. I am relieved to say that I have never had a situation arise which was not fairly controllable by either the use of either handcuffs or a very large flight engineer.
Whether as a passenger or as Flight Crew; I always carry a large Mag - Lite in my Carry On/Flight Bag. It is a real life preserver and quite legal, a little like a Linus' Blanket. In the old days in Africa, I used to carry a Colt 45 without the ivory handles, a bit tricky that, today
