Okay then, just a few questions for this smoking-configured aeroplane.
As most lavs are near or next to galleys, is it hygienic to let smokers into the lavs?
If 25% of adults smoke, then on an average Airtours aircraft:
A320: 45 smokers
B757: 55 smokers
A330: 90 smokers
I can just picture it now. Everyone has their meals, cabin crew collect in the trays, then 90 passengers all race to the smoking toilet, pushing cabin crew aside, complaining that someone has been in there for 10 minutes, forming long queues into the cabin, disturbing other passengers, coming out of the lav STINKING of smoke.
Like most "nice ideas", I beleive that in reality, this would never work. It would create more problems than it solves.
Allowing smoking on aircraft is a step backwards and it gives out the wrong message to passengers - that the airlines have given in to the air rage thugs.