Whenever I'm on a plane and they remind you not to smoke, I wonder "Is there anybody left on the face of the planet that thinks you can smoke on a plane?"

Same with on-line hotel bookings: It always says "Non-smoking room". Are there any hotel rooms in the civilized world that still allow smoking?

In some hotels you can specifically ask for smoking rooms.

As to on a plane, I’ve never seen it, as I’m not in that rarified air, but I’ve been told that on private aircraft it happens if the owner wants it to.

Put it this way, some relatively new aircraft still have ashtrays…. Of course, in my mind pressurized oxygen and open flame don’t play well together, but it used to be common.

In Europe and most other first world nations there are fairly large smoking areas in the airports.

I think the US is probably a bit more militant about nonsmoking than the rest of the developed world. I don’t like the stuff around me, but that’s what I see.

Frankly, pipe and cigars bother me a lot less than cigarettes… and you don’t have all those disgusting butts around.

when the 757 rolled out, it still had ashtrays in the bathrooms -- i THINK the 787 did as well

way back in the day, when I smoked and it was legal, i also smoked on planes and in movie theaters -- gave it up before most people on the planet were born, but yeah, i did.

In europe, and south america.. and asia, MANY people still smoke

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Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
"Is there anybody left on the face of the planet that thinks you can smoke on a plane?

I would guess that they are doing that for two reasons: first, they mention the penalty which will cut down on the number of people who try to sneak a puff in the bathroom, and secondly, it makes the “oh, sorry i didn’t realize that smoking is not allowed…” even less plausible as an excuse.

And there are still planes in service that are still equipped with ashtrays, so it’s not completely unreasonable to think that some old smoker might have the impression that smoking is still allowed on some flights.

I flew on a commercial airliners where people were smoking. It was not fully outlawed until 2000.


It's been 20 years since smoking was completely banned on all US flights. Here's how smoking on planes went from normal to banned.

The way things are going, you'll be able to smoke pot soon.

Grizz

Here is a perfect example of how stupid one can be.

Coming from the Maldives, there were 8 seats in First Class.

They were like rooms, one can close the door if one wishes.

7 were occupied, one was free.

After boarding, before take off, I saw a man talking to the purser.

I know the purser, so I asked him what was going on.

He said a passenger in Business Class wanted to upgrade to First.

He agreed to pay the difference.

A few minutes later, a man appeared from the back, and took the seat opposite the isle from me.

We took off, and he closed the door of his little cabin.

A few minutes later, I see the purser and the hostess trying to open the cabin door.

They di.

It turns out the passenger who upgraded was smoking an E cigarettes!

They stopped him.

Imagine the stupidity of thinking that he could close the door and not be detected!

Money not well spent!

I remember when smoking was common in college classes.

I once fired up a cigar to get the cigarette smokers to move away from me. I let the cigar go out after they did.

Best medicine for a wart is a cigarette.

Had a wart on my hand.

Tried all sorts of things.

Always came back.

Some suggested I burn it with a cigarette.

Was flying on BA to London.

I asked for a pack of cigarettes - they used to give you a pack with 5.

Lit one, put it on the wart until it became painful.

Stopped fir a bit and repeat.

Eventually the wart developed liquid underneath it.

I cut it out, and put ash on the wound.

That was the end of it.