Brown Eyes-- I can only imagine that finding a pax smoking on board is a difficult situation. But first things first -- you need to find the butt!! Now after having a fruitless search you need to go ask the 'suspect chimney' what they did with it. This person knows full well that smoking on an aircraft is a Federal offence and can picture themselves being met at the other end by a couple of big boys in uniform—so they deny having a smoke until they go blue in the face.
It is a lose - lose situation. I am lucky enough not to have had any-one sneak a quick smoke in the toilets on my shifts—although I did have a gentleman sitting in the second last row spend the entire trip rolling cigarettes in his seat. Towards the end of the flight he jumps off and heads for the loo with one hanging out of his mouth. I head him off at the door and remind him of the Law and suggest he pop the cigarette back in its packet before going to the loo. He followed my instructions only to reappear from the loo a minute or two later with another one hanging out of his mouth. I checked the toilet and there was no smell of smoke—obviously he was just trying to be cheeky.
But it just goes to show that people really don’t understand how important this law is!!
