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Posted on 12/12/2022 8:42:19 PM PST by libh8er
This past week, a video was posted showing a passenger lighting a cigarette aboard an American Airlines flight. The four-second video shows the man lighting the cigarette and nothing else. However, the filming passenger Sara Radosevich stated in the accompanying tweet that a flight attendant snatched the cigarette out of the man's hands.
Smoking in-flight
In this situation, the cabin crew responded appropriately by extinguishing the cigarette, as smoking aboard an aircraft is illegal and poses a fire risk. The airline commented on the tweet, stating that it was handling the situation. A representative for the airline commented on the following on the video,
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Does anyone remember the airline Smokers Express in the 90s? It never received enough funding, but it was going to cater to smokers.
Remember when, if some flight attendant would have done that, the guy in his suit would have stood up and slapped her and told her to get him another cigarette and another whiskey sour, and never do that again.
Ummm… fire risk? Smoking was still in practice on commercial aircraft until the early 1990s.
Keep lists. like, idiots, trolls and bad actors
yep, total lie, its not about aircraft safety, it’s a 2nd hand smoke issue.
there wasnt... it is nothing more than the whiners attempt to scare the stupid...
The husband called me an hour later apologizing and asking me to go back. I told him no way. find a non smoker crew.
Fkn morons will breathe wood and gypsum dust, vinyl and metal and paint, but take issue with the scent of a cig... absolutely ridiculous!!
He should’ve lit up a joint and everything would be fine.
Once, during the seventies, while talking about making a flight reservation a fiend said “get a seat in the smoking section. I always do. The fun people are in the smoking section.”
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When me and my siblings were kids our pediatrician was a chain smoker. He’d do the exam, give us out shots, etc. then light up a smoke while he wrote his notes in the chart.
And that was all just in a week, wasn’t lt? LOL. My FIL was a commercial pilot, retired from there and became a freight dog and then retired from there. He’s got stories for days. He always enjoyed a good cigar in flight.
I hated when people smoked on planes. And having smoking and non-smoking sections was hilarious. Like smoke knows to stay in its own designated area and not waft over an imaginary border.
The 5-1/2-hour flight between Alaska and Hawaii was pretty bad in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. I had a doctor in HI that I would see every trip because of bronchitis or similar due to the smoke.
I don’t know about fire hazard. If people start fires at home by falling asleep while smoking, it must be possible on a plane. Only difference is that so many people are nearby to notice a problem ASAP on a plane.
In any case, air travel sucks now. I’d almost trade smoking to get rid of the TSA thugs.
Used to use those big black floor ashtrays that had sand in them in the Foodtown and Kroger stores, at the end of every aisle.
Hell, the stewardesses use to hand out small packs of complimenatary cigarettes as you boarded! You could also stow long guns in the overhead.
One time in the 70’s I was only passenger on a NWA 727 deadheading from Madison, WI to Chicago. Asked stewardesses if okay to smoke my pipe. They said sure..they loved the aroma!
That's why smoking was permitted from the introduction of passenger aircraft until the early 90s, because people in the past were stupid. /s
It stinks and it's obnoxious if you're not a smoker and are in a confined space.
To me it's nostalgic, as it reminds me of my father's office when I was a kid, which was filled with the aroma of cigarettes, coffee and machine oil from all the teletype machines.
I got thrown out of an ER recently while accompanying my sick wife. A nurse had complained of tobacco smell on my leather jacket.
As someone who literally flies weekly, I am amazed at how low-class — and obese — the flying public have become.
Airline are becoming flying Walmarts...
Any time there’s an open flame there’s at least a *small* fire risk.
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