This diplomat sounds like a complete idiot. Not smoking on US airlines is a super-basic rule that every passenger is remined of at the beginning of each flight. Talk about embarrassing...
On the same note, while taking a crap during cruise on EK metal a few hours ago, looked up and Lo and behold
The smoke detector on the crappers' roof said something along the lines of "Blah Blah $2000 + Federal + Blah Blah"
As mere SLF , I figured that in this time and age the only time you can smoke inflight is
a) on the flight deck ( on some operators )
b) no where else
What kind of an idiot smokes on an airplane considering that there are next to no airlines that allow smoking
disclaimer: smoker here