As a Cabin Crew Line trainer i agree with Biscuit Chuckers comments.
The airline i work for trains cabin crew to get a smoke hood prepeared in any emergency situation and to remove it from it's casing and place in an over head locker closest to them, so that should the situation arise on landing (of a smoke filled cabin) then the equipment is close to hand for the evacuation!. (But i must remind you that if the smoke is to thick and the flames are too hot Cabin Crew will have left the A/C)
However, when this kind of emergency occurs on taxiing i feel i would be more inclined to (like Biscuit Chucker says) get the PAX off the A/C as quickly as possible rather than shouting for passengers to 'grab your smoke hood and get out!'.
If PAX were able to have a smoke hood this would be an absolute nightmare to explain during a safety demonstration and the chances of everyone being able to understand the use of them is very slim indeed.
