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 ...
Digging. Hole. Stop digging.
The anti-smoking nazis are incapable of rational thought. They can't even connect the dots on discrimination and minorities. 13% of the population is black and they get everything they want. 25% of the population are smokers, and we're treated with disdain.
I absolutely LOVE your attitude.
It will reduce the fuel economy at any altitude. Another thing I didn't mention is that the air inside the airplane is not moving (much). This means there is a change in momentum from when the air was outside the airplane to when the air is inside the airplane. Since the momentum has changed in a finite time period, work must be applied.
Non-smokers have an outstanding ability of failing to understand a rather simple fact: Smokers breath the exact same air as they do!
Not all smokers are that way. I smoke, but I never smoke indoors or around children. When you are outside, smoking around others typically isn't an issue since the smoke is too diffuse. It is a different story in a confined space. Usually common sense applies.
I'd fly it (even though I don't smoke, but used to) because that is a daring, brazen, un-PC concept. It's anecdotal, admittedly, but smokers are known to be more generous tippers, and, frankly, a Smoker's Airline could be a great place to meet conservatives/libertarians.
Still, there is a price-point to which I'm also sensitive. Good luck to them. Why is it that The Land of the Free can't come up with something like this anymore?
Huzzah.
In the rear of the aircraft, there is an exit valve (approximately 18 inches in diameter) which is used to regulate the internal pressure. This valve is used to provide a comfortable atmospheric pressure for the passengers. Humidity or other air quality factors is not something that this simple valve has any control over.
Smokers and non-smokers are subjected to the exact same atmospheric controls.
You forgot the complimentary Jack Daniels and Cuban cigars.
I have a friend who swears that he was on a South American airline and asked the stewardess (i.e. cabin attendant) for a scotch. She said, "We don't have any of that, but we have some very good wine. That's what the pilot is drinking."
I once flew Braniff...From Travis AF Base to Tahn San Nhut, Viet Nam.
Then a Prius is just right for you. Wind it up really really tight and let 'er rip.
To me, smoking is my symbol of American freedom. Infringe upon that symbol, and it may cause someone physical harm.
Sometimes, a line must be drawn.
But you forget - we're now Free From Being Offended!
I have drawn my line.....
You are awesome! ;*)
You'd love Seattle: the Emerald Soviet recently enacted a 25-foot rule, displacing all smokers, even at private clubs, to the streets, where it's (quite) often inclement.
Result? "Smoke-easies" - places where one literally risks prosecution to be able to smoke and have a cocktail.
And it didn't take long.
That was back when all the hostesses were eye candy.
Clearly - on all counts! ;*)
Thanks Gabz. I always wondered how I got on your ping list. LOL.
What twists my shorts are these lily-livered pansies that try to dictate to others how to live their lives.
I stopped smoking for 5 years and NEVER had an issue with smokers lighting up in my office.
Today's nazis would be laughed out of a foxhole and shot by the enemy if they pulled this shit during WWII.
Let's not forget that everyone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too bald, but not enough rights for left-handed, Welsh marksmen who vote conservative on the 5th Tuesday on February 30th.
I'd love to stand up in an anti-smokers convention and walk around the room and nit-pick everyone in the place.
I didn't know anti-smokers were in charge of connecting dots but it's not about numbers. Black is beautiful...Smoke is grey and stinky.
an airline dedicated to smokers
did you NOT understand?
Calm down a'ready.
Gad. I used to be a smoker - until the docs finally found out that cigarette smoke was what was making me so ill that they were going to operate on my sinuses - allergy testing went off the chart with cigarette smoke.
For many years, where I went and activities etc were restricted, and I had to leave 2 jobs because of cigarette smoking. (others)
No one gets sick or has to choose between getting ill and keeping a job because I don't smoke. It's been very helpful now with smoking in public places restricted.
Bottom line is, Any one person's "rights" end where another person's nose begins."
Good golly. I hope I wasn't as thin-skinned, belligerent and unable to recognize other peoples rights back when I smoked.
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