Would you like Smoking or Non-Smoking ?
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Would you like Smoking or Non-Smoking ?
I don't know if there is another thread on this issue, but do any airlines still offer a Smoking option ?? And would anyone like to see a return to the Smoking / No-Smoking option ?
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A couple of years ago a friend of mine (who's father is an SQ captain) told me that Air India allow smoking on some of their flights (he previously flew for them). Is this still the case?
Judging by the steady sales of smokeless cigarettes that I've witnessed on many a Ryanair flight, I'd say that there is probably a significant market for smoking sections on certain flights (I must stress that I write this as a non smoker...).
Judging by the steady sales of smokeless cigarettes that I've witnessed on many a Ryanair flight, I'd say that there is probably a significant market for smoking sections on certain flights (I must stress that I write this as a non smoker...).
As a smoker - trying to reform - I would hate flights to allow smoking. Horrible habit, and to smoke in a tiny tube up in the sky, where the beancounters do not allow for full air-changing, would be awful.
I'm now officially a 'non smoker who occasionally smokes especially when he's on the lash', I don't think smoking has any place on a 'plane & there is no need for it. If you can't wait a few hours for a ciggy then you really aren't trying very hard. And it stinks, and it's a fire hazard and it's just one more thing to pish y' off inside a 'plane. Now - if we can shut up crying kids and 2@'s that play video games n such loudly...
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Was it ever a real fire hazard ? Or was it stopped because of the anti-social stigma or pasive health risk to cabin crew and other passengers. Does anyone remember which airline was the first to introduce an all Non-Smoking flight and which of the major airlines was the last to convert ?
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I've always thought that the most sadistic aspect of the smoking ban was not on the aircraft - where I can quite see that the effects on non-smokers are quite unacceptable and that a ban is justified - but at airports.
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I used to regularly take the Garuda flight from Gatwick to Bali. The last ten rows were for smokers who always seemed a jolly lot enjoying a cig and a beer. As a (reformed) non smoker I didn’t have a problem with the smoke which just seemed to disappear out the back of the plane.
I also agree with Tightslot, just what is the reason for not having a smoking area away from the non smokers?
I also agree with Tightslot, just what is the reason for not having a smoking area away from the non smokers?
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I also agree with Tightslot, just what is the reason for not having a smoking area away from the non smokers?
I heard one of the reasons for banning smoking on aircraft was due to the build up of nicotine/tar gloop which eventually added quite a lot of extra weight to the airframe. Could be a total rumour of course.
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Does anyone remember which airline was the first to introduce an all Non-Smoking flight and which of the major airlines was the last to convert ?
Furthermore, they would not sell tobacco products on board in their duty free sales.
It was said at the time that they were the first British airline to operate a complete no-smoking ban on board.
I travelled with them several times and thought them an excellent little airline, and not just because they banned smoking on board.
The airline company became insolvent but was only wound up after protracted financial legal action.
I am convinced that the upsurge in violent pax behaviour that gets into the press regularl is principally down to the banning of smoking, and is carried out by those who have been deprived of their fix for many hours. Anyone know if there is any analysis of how many "air-ragers" are smokers ?
Most if not all of them are drunk. I'd suggest not having had a cigarette was right at the bottom of the list of reasons the inconsiderate 2@'s cause trouble. And if smoking did calm people down it'd be far better to give them a spliff than nicotine.
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The ban never bothered me because, strangely enough, in the long gone days when I was a smoker I never felt the urge to smoke when flying. To answer the OP's question: No, I would not like to see a smoking section re-introduced.
Quite a number of European airports I travel through provide designated smoking rooms. I think I have even seen them in the States (MSP being one as I recall).
Quite a number of European airports I travel through provide designated smoking rooms. I think I have even seen them in the States (MSP being one as I recall).
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I used to fly with a captain who smoked a pipe. IMC on the flight deck 
He didn't mind if I excused myself. I smoke a few small cigars a day (outside) but I would not want to sit on an aircraft with people smoking around me. At ATH there is an emergency smoking area as soon as you get off the aircraft even before baggage collection. It is very popular with the locals! Oddly enough I can fly long haul and I am not desperate for the deadly weed. Now, no drinking, that is a completely different matter 
He didn't mind if I excused myself. I smoke a few small cigars a day (outside) but I would not want to sit on an aircraft with people smoking around me. At ATH there is an emergency smoking area as soon as you get off the aircraft even before baggage collection. It is very popular with the locals! Oddly enough I can fly long haul and I am not desperate for the deadly weed. Now, no drinking, that is a completely different matter
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Airports such as Singapore show what a little planning can achieve. Harry's bar is a perfect example of an outside smoking area.
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I also agree with Tightslot, just what is the reason for not having a smoking area away from the non smokers?
Normally legislation. Much of this has never envisaged a building like an airport where people cannot step outside in a minute, so it's not allowed at all.
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I also agree with Tightslot, just what is the reason for not having a smoking area away from the non smokers?
Normally legislation. Much of this has never envisaged a building like an airport where people cannot step outside in a minute, so it's not allowed at all.
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Harry's bar is a perfect example of an outside smoking area.
I took a Swissair economy class flight in Dec 1997 from either Geneva or Zurich (I don't recall which and it was dark when the flight from LHR got there!) to Singapore and didn't realise it was a smoker. I was in the last row of the non-smoking section and it was the most unpleasant flight I have ever had. 12 hours later I came out like a kipper!