Posted on 06/27/2006 8:51:34 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
BERLIN - A German businessman has founded an airline dedicated to smokers.Smintair, or "Smokers' International Airways," aims to cater for smoking passengers, particularly from Asia, who feel they have been squeezed out of the market.
Its first aircraft are due to take off in October on a route between Dusseldorf and Tokyo and are expected to serve mainly Japanese businessmen.
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"It disturbs me that I pay a lot of money for a ticket only to be told what I can and cannot do," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
"He's just another pushy liberal who thinks everyone must conform to his tastes and lifestyle. He also doesn't seem to understand the marketplace."
Yeah, another one who has "conservative" in their screen name, and doesn't know what the word means.
I guess they think being a republican automatically makes them a conservative......NOT!
Not only that, but they will have to provide extra storage space in the planes for the beer and liquor that they will consume, and extra rest rooms.
Ooh! Nice strawman!
Unless you can prove that all airline tickets cost exactly the same regardless of airline, destination, smoking preference, etc., your claim is bogus.
This thread kind of proves a point. This is a thread about an airline started for smokers. And, people come out and say, I wouldn't fly on it, I hate the smell, I hated when smokers stunk up a plane.
A real conservative answer would be, "Good, they can do what they want, and not bother me."
Or, "kudos, to capitalism", or something like that.
But, no. The nannies at FR had to turn it into a "smokers suck and are selfish" thread. Why am I not surprised?
LOL - I like it! It would probably cost them more money than the free miles though.
you are right- as a former smoker I remember about 6 months after quitting I smelled fresh mown lawn for the first time in 15 years and it brought back memories of childhood and so much more.
Smoking does affect your sense of smell, but thanksfully it comes back after you stop.
EXACTLY the point I kept "trying" to make! Thanks!
Have an artichoke and calm down.
mark
>>"Non smokers go around...... finding things that smell bad">>>>
That is the best (only) excuse "FOR" smoking that I have ever heard!
Smoke and you will deaden your sense of smell so much that you will no longer be able to smell stinky things. ROTFLMBO!
The more often the air is changed, the lower the humidity. According to some articles I read, low cabin humidity makes the mucous membranes in the sinus cavities of passengers more susceptible to infection.
Easily solved by a glass of water. You are much more likely to get sick when the same germy air is blown into your face over and over again. The airlines started doing it when smoking was banned to save money on filters.
Please tell me you mean $42 for a carton. I just heard on the radio yesterday an ad for yet another vote for another tax on cigarettes here in California; I have no idea how much this proposed new tax is. Smoking killed my mom but no one held a gun to her head and it makes me sick to see smokers made into something evil. Now they can't come out and ban smoking, they need the revenue but they sure tax it to death. I voted against meathead's .50 tax per pack but it still passed, after all, it was for the children.
Smoking has never bothered me (I smoke cigars) but I'm amazed at how people get the vapors at the thought of having to breath in smoke. I'm much more offended by some people's perfumes or colognes.
Someone else already mentioned it but when smoking was allowed, it was easier to see cracks in the fuselage of planes due to the color stain from the smoke.
From what I understand, it does cost energy to increase the amount of bleed air from a jet engine meaing lower fuel economy but I don't know what the numbers are. I seem to recall the airlines keep the bleed level low to save money, it has nothing to do with smoking no longer being allowed on flights.
You said, in part: Hope they've got some good air filtration on those flights...
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Why in heaven's name would smokers want to filter out the very smoke they are trying to breathe? It's the same with cars. I see cars on a 25 degree winter day or a 95 degree summer day with the driver's window down, and a hand with a cigarette in it on the edge of the door, apparently letting that precious, and expensive, smoke get away! At a minimum, the window is cracked, even when it is raining outside. I am not a smoker, so I guess I don't get it.
I do favor the airline described here, though, just as I support bars and restaurant owners' rights to allow or not allow smoking in the businesses they own and operate. Let choice and the market control.
I remember when you could smoke in the back of a plane. It was nasty, and I am a smoker
You will never be on that airline anyhow so that is rather pointless.
Thanks for the ping!
An airline like that wouldn't even need to go anywhere. You could take off,circle for a while and land at the same airport and still fill the seats with paying passengers :-)
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