Petition calls for peanut-free zones on planes

The Hill ^ | September 2, 2014 | Tim Devaney

[Jedidah]

The boy I mentioned is doing well. In the intervening years, he has learned to live very carefully. He is in college now and carries an epipen.

Yet, even with all his precautions, danger remains.

I’m not arguing for or against removing peanuts from flights. Rather, my post was to shame those hateful and uninformed posters who implied that peanut allergy is not a serious issue.

[muir_redwoods]

I’m sorry your kid is defective. It’s not my problem. First peanuts, then dairy, then scented soap, then wool or cotton or polyester, then meat...

It doesn’t stop.

[lonestar]

You think exposure to smoke on an airplane is going to cause permanent lung damage?

People flew with smokers on airplanes for decades. Now the same people are complaining about e-cigarettes because it looks like smoking. That is apples to oranges.

[nuke rocketeer]

Screw 'em. I will continue to eat peanuts as I please. This is exactly like the run-up to the smoking ban on airliners, first a small no-smoking zone, then a few years later, smokers relegated to the back half, then the back third, then no smoking on flights less than 2 hours, then four hours, and then a complete ban.

I guarantee peanuts will follow the exact same path to banning if there is no pushback.

I am calling for complete civil disobedience on this. Buy a big jar of any kid of peanuts crunch a mouthful and put out a peanut-breath plasma all around your seating area.

[Jedidah]

Please see my post #61.

Your questions certainly verify my comment in post #42 that it is a complicated issue. Thank you for that.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[afsnco]

My, aren’t we becoming a genetic freak show.

[vetvetdoug]

Sure, a person can fly in a plane if he’s black and infected with full blown Ebola but if he’s got a bag of peanuts he gets tossed from the plane?

[Cementjungle]

It’s been years since I’ve seen any airline serve nuts. I wish they would bring them back, because those pretzels taste like plastic.

[nuke rocketeer]

So, then he should not go where there will be peanuts. Don’t punish a huge majority for the weakness of ONE.

[nuke rocketeer]

Not a lack of knowledge, just a lack of giving a damn.....

[Hulka]

Good point.

[muir_redwoods]

I fully understand how life threatening it is. Its not my problem. We all have issues to deal with; don’t make one person’s disability another persons obligation. I cannot digest pork or pork products. When I go to a diner I don’t order anything that needs to be grilled on the flat top where the bacon is fried. My problem, my responsibility.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Jedidah. I read you comments and understand where you are coming from.

[two23]

First INSTINCT—not first effort.

[Sherman Logan]

Smoking was proven to impact the health of all people, not just a very very tiny minority of folks.

Yup. Smokers damage their health severely. That second-hand smoke, especially intermittent and occasional, has similar effects has not been proven.

Despite what the EPA, in a shamefully politicized study, and multitudes of activists might have told you.

The actual fact is that tobacco smoke is not really any different in its effects on the lungs when inhaled than any other type of smoke.

This doesn't mean that tobacco won't give you cancer, but the issue isn't that it's tobacco, it's that people don't routinely sit around and inhale such vast amounts of the smoke from any other plant. IOW, it's the dose, and the dose one gets from occasional secondhand smoke is tiny relative to that even a moderate smoker is exposed to.

I have never smoked, and don't intent to start, but facts are facts, even when they're socially unacceptable.

[nuke rocketeer]

Then don’t fly......

[lonestar]

Apathy beagats ignorance.