Fags? (not the SFO type <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> ) Please turn up the ventilation. I
can manage a trans-pacific of 16 hours without one but I get "irritated" - some more serious "addicts", it has been shown, get violent.
I once boarded a Swissair flight out of US, having booked a smoking seat weeks before, to have a pax sit beside me and ask me not to smoke "because she din't like it" and it was the only seat available when she boarded (not having booked a non-smoking seat)
I have a friend who has a "system" involving a Coke can and a wet towel for having an un-detected smoke in the a/c loo on a long flight. You don't stop it, you just "drive it underground"!
Booze? I usually fly "a little bit happy" - especialy on a non-smoking long sector - but not totally p1ssed (right - that's not safe) partly as I'd rather sleep for a trans-atlantic when I can't have a fag for 8 hours! (can help to avoid "jet lag" time-zone problems as well)
Ban it and you will get the hooligans drinking out of mouthwash bottles from their carry-on bags. I've heard of pax on non-booze flights (I don't fly them <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> ) drilling small holes in Coke cans and lacing the Coke with booze before sealing them, just to get a drink on board!. .Banning is not the answer to problems - solving them is. Tony's done a lot of good that I never expected from the "enemy paty", but this is just plain stoopid and, like banning smoking, will not solve the problem bt just substitute another.
We're all grown-ups - and if we're not we should be told to take a bus <img src="mad.gif" border="0">