E-CIGARETTES
 

Am flying to Australia next month with BA,are you allowed to use E CIGARETTES? during the flight?

No you can't - man up a bit.

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"No you can't - man up a bit."

.....said the arrogant non-smoker?

It was a fair comment and I am a smoker.

It's only a few hours, a dose of HTFU required ?

(I have done the same flight 24 times so know what it is like).

The OP is a passenger, one of those that pays many of you lot your salaries, some of you lot need an exercise in customer relations, all he did was ask a question and a "no" answer would have sufficed.

Agree.

mikkie4, why don't you take up the e-cigs now, a month before the flight. Perhaps you can reduce your dependance on nicotine to the extent that your flights will be less stressful. I believe that you can use the e-cigs at SIN, and they do have smoking booths there.

e-cigs apparently are a very good quoting aid.

Sleep as much of the journey as possible.

Boarded a flight to Jo'burg with a heavy-smoking colleague some years ago. He'd prepared for the smoke-free flight by packing several bags of jelly babies. Unfortunately, about half an hour into the flight the 2nd or 3rd JB removed one of his fillings. Not a pleasant flight for him. :ooh:

Try nicotine patches.

As to why no e-cigs,

BBC News - Fake cigarette caused M6 police Megabus coach swoop

I was a lifelong and heavy smoker, I went on to e-cigs, the first couple of weeks it was difficult, comparable to drinking a weak shandy rather than a full strength beer, but then e-cigs became my norm and after 6 months of those I gave up smoking totally and I've been some three years without.

As I recall a bottle of the e-liquid was about the same price as a packet of fags, well one bottle of e-liquid was lasting me around two months!

No e-smoking on flights is one of those rules that is difficult, if not impossible, to enforce. It is not smoking as there is no fire and no smoke, merely a water vapour and they have yet to fit water vapour detectors in aircraft loos and even sitting in one's seat one can cup the cig in one's hand, take a puff, swallow the vapour and nobody around will be any the wiser.

Thanks for all the info guys(all except the person who told me to MAN UP)

There is also this http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/5251...ml#post8303979 over on JB.

Note this bit: Perhaps e-cigs are not the panacea I first thought!

I went on to e-cigs and because I was relocating to "the jungle" where I am now I bought up stocks of batteries, atomisers, filters, e-liquid and whatever else.

These hundreds of pounds worth of kit are now lying redundant in a corner of my office, I gave up e-cigs after 6 months and if ever I get the urge I have all this equipment in the corner of my office ... Three years so far and no such urge!

But being addicted to e-cigs is OK because all it is is nicotine and nicotine never killed anybody, it's all the other sh1t in real cigarettes that kill and those are not present in e-cigs and spending the monetary value of one packet of real cigarettes every month or so ... well e-cigs are a bargain!

Sorry if I defend and speak highly of e-cigs but they served their purpose of curing me of a lifelong addiction that I believed I would never quit ... Well done the Chinese :)

Giving up ciggies for a few hours is easy. I used to smoke and not smoking for 6, 9 hours on a flight or whatever is a piece of p***. Just get your attitude right and stop whining it's not like you are having a leg cut off under no anesthetic. Its a ciggy - you don't need it - suck your thumb if you need a nipple substitute. It's pathetic really. You can distract yourself in many ways use all kinds of patches & gum or just think to yourself 'Lets give abstinence a go and see what we can achieve.'

So yeah - HTFU.

I just read The Poisoner's Handbook:
YMMV

Let's try this for reactions sake:

'Hi, Can you guys help?
I'm a user & need to jack up roughly every 6 hours or so - I'm flying to Bangkok on Sunday & understand that needles might be prohibited. Honestly my habit harms no one else but could I maybe chase the dragon or failing that snort some H in the toilet?'

One small point, anyone who believes that e-cigs only produce water vapour are clearly misinformed.

This gives a good reason to ensure that no one attempts to use an E-cigarette onboard:

Man suffers fractured neck, third degree burns and has hole blown through the roof of his mouth after e-cigarette explodes - Americas - World - The Independent

End of the article, relates to the UK:

I have several "friends" on E cigs...... and you CAN smell the vapour from yards [metres] away.

Load toad your really are a bit of a self righteous cock