While I have a certain sympathy for smokers, the air on charter flights used to be almost unbreathable, with yellow nicotine running from the outflow valve... But I don't think this attack was really about smoking.
The woman is a very nasty piece of work and happily is now in jail where she belongs. It is a pity most papers described her as a "Mum" as opposed to "Vicious Thug" which would have been a fairer description.