Passenger offloaded for smoking in lavatory before take off?

[13 please]

It's actually more of a safety issue, now than before becuase people try to do it on the sly, eg in the toilets, and try tricks like bunging up the smoke alarm with toilet paper, and not neccessarily remembering to take it off.

I'm a smoker, if I can't smoke on board, nobody can. No excuses.

[Breeza]

I think everyone raises relevant points, however, I think it is important that Flight crew respect and back up cabin crew all the way. Cabin Crew are those that have to deal with these people for the entire flight not the pilots.

As someone that flies regularily anyone that does anything that risks mine or pax safety or their comfort, as far as I'm concerned, should be offloaded. I have even heard of a case where a pax didn't even make it onto the a/c as he was smoking while walking across the tarmac to the a/c.

These precautions are put into place for a reason, for years we have seen the airline industry learn from it's mistakes and I firmly believe that prevention is much better than a raging toilet fire at 35,000ft which, mind you, the CC have to deal with.

If we let ppl get away with this behaviour it only encourages further incidents. I think offloading pax probably is punishment enough. I understand that laying charges ect prob aren't practical. BUT I would presume and expect that in the case of pax being offloaded an incident report will be completed and in the case of repreat offenders the matter could and should be taken much further.

[tart1]

until some years ago it was permitted

... but when smoking was allowed, it was never permitted in the toilets as it was seen as a fire hazard, even back then in the dark ages.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Ah the Dark Ages.

When you could smoke cigarettes but not cigars or pipes.

[denis555]

Smoking thread?

Smoke in bed?

11 hour flight with the back of the plane like a smokey mine shaft?

Distant memories now, whatever the rights or wrongs....