Pax are the ones who are paying the salaries, while crew are being paid salaries
Someone's trolling for a fight with a statement like that. Good grief, then let's just let pax do whatever they like...
Please, let's just see sense and say that ideally, it would be nice (but never going to happen) if there was a way of ensuring that the blood alcohol levels of all boarding pax is limited to .02, and then crew can confidently serve a limit of x servings of alcohol per hour of flight, so as to ensure the flight remains safe for the entire length of the flight.
Too many times I've returned from mining areas and pax around me have gone berserk ordering repeat drinks to end up completely obliterated by the time they arrive.
I like a drink, but don't see the need to get hammered on a flight. The smoking argument is fair enough because when left in the control of pax, it DOES affect my enjoyment of the flight when I'm getting shouted at etc...
Matt