I and many others did it all the time when we flew back in the 70's and 80's until the PPOP's took control of this country ....nobody died.
(PPOP = Perpetually Pissed Off Pricks)
All this nonsense about turning planes around because one passenger is misbehaving is overkill.
Smoke em if you got em
Yeah, I flew to London in 1991 in the smoking section, from Logan. Guy I was flying with was a smoker. And then a family of five in smoking section decided they wanted to sit in non-smoking, and somehow the blessed stewardess accommodated them. They shuffled some people in the smoking section back into their seats, and they were on the edge of the smoking section.
Smoking didn’t bother me, but the guy in the seat next to me was a friendly French-Canadian, about 30, drunk as a skunk, who regaled me with photos of the hovels he lived in in the Siberian oil patch where he worked, and of the preternaturally ugly Russian cook, with a smile as big as the steppes and a waist as wide as a T-72.
What a flight. Oh, yeah, we had the obnoxious British twit who wouldn’t turn off his electronics, and the poor Asian American flight attendant imploring him to comply so we could take off, while we sat hostage to his intransigence. Oh, what flight.
Actually, people did die as a result of someone smoking on a plane. 23 to be exact. See flight 797 in Canada. This is part of every yearly recurrent training I had for 25 years as a flight attendant when we went through the fire safety portion of training.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_797
I remember one particular time flying a DC-10, when I got stuck in the back in the smoking section.
The DC-10 cabin was very large, and had the aspect of a small movie theater. The seats were well above the center of rotation when the plane banked, so it resembled a gaint amusement ride.
When we took off on this particular occasion, and the captain lighted the smoking lamp after a few minutes, I was impressed by the absurd spectacle of the instant and clamorous lighting and puffing of cigarettes, which immediately filled the air with smoke. I thought it was rather humorous at the time, but the experience is seared in my memory.
Typical attitude of a smoker.
I and many others did it all the time when we flew back in the 70’s and 80’s until the PPOP’s took control of this country ....nobody died.”
I was a flight attendant during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. Most everyone smoked while flying including the crew. No one ever got sick from all the germs in the air like they do now whenever they fly, perhaps because we had great ventilation systems. Seems like when they eliminated smoking the quality of the ventilation went in the dumper.
Loved the PPOP’s! Made my day. Thanks.