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To: Garnet Dawn
"You can't smoke on an airplane so you aren't going to get on an airplane and light up," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. "So what's the purpose of having a butane lighter or books of matches, especially when the FBI has said had Richard Reid had the butane lighter he would have blown up the airplane with a shoe bomb?"

Ummm...so you can have a cigarette outside the terminal before you enter (so you won't have a nic fit and strangle the flight attendents) and then be able to smoke when you reach your destination? Who elected this box of rocks?

12 posted on 02/17/2005 12:21:08 PM PST by ravingnutter
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To: ravingnutter

Right, but how are you supposed to light up at the end of a flight, when you finally get outside the terminal for a cigarette, if you aren't supposed to have any way of lighting the cigarette and airports are supposed to ban the sale of lighters too?

I read in another news story that lighters and matches are to be banned from checked luggage too. That may have been an exaggeration by the writer, but we can't lock our luggage any more....so, whose to say?

Will the airports have plain clothes informants watching for travelers to pull a hidden book of matches from their clothing? Is our country determined to turn everyone into criminals with their asinine laws?

Stuck with matches every time anyone goes on vacation? Most of us have favorite lighters, and I'd really miss mine if forced to use disposables and matches for a couple of weeks.


15 posted on 02/17/2005 12:50:26 PM PST by Garnet Dawn
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