[Drango]

I remember how unpleasant it was when flying and regardless of where one sat one had to breath the smoke and the stench of tobacco would be all on ones clothes afterwards.

The mantra from smokies back then (and today)was tough $h!t, you can always take another plane, boat, drive whatever...Don't like to inhale smoke while eating, tough $h!t, find another restaurant.

Don't like your children being marketed to and turned into addicts? Tough $h!t. Don't like babies being born with birth defects 'cause their mother smoked while pregnant? Tough $h!t

Now they wonder why they lost the smoking wars and why people marched by the thousands into voting booths to restrict their addiction.

[Ditter]

You are remembering the bad old (smoking) days the same way that I do.

The days when everyone smoked and they smoked everywhere. Never a “do you mind if I smoke?” It was miserable and the non smokers accepted it.

Thankfully those days are gone.

As far as SMOKING SECTIONS are concerned, they don't work the smoke goes everywhere.

Whine on smokers, this non smoker can't hear you!

[Durus]

In a Constitutional Republic with a Free Market economic system, where everyone was sick of “smokies”, a “smoke free” airline would have been a big hit. Smoke free restaurants and bars would have been everywhere and only a few “smokies” restaurants and bars would have survived. Instead a bunch of selfish whiny busy bodies couldn’t handle the results of a free market and used the power of government to get their way. In any sane time where government was limited to their respective constitutions this would never have been allowed, and anyone that would argue that supra-constitutional powers are ok if they foster their own agenda is neither a conservative or a constitutionalist.