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In reply to the discussion: Can you remember when you were allowed to smoke on planes? [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)46. Yes, and I absolutely HATED it.
My mother chain-smoked and I hated that, too. Could NOT get away from it. Awful smell and it'd get on my clothes and my hair and I'd smell bad. I also struggled with contact lenses of all kinds, when I was a teenager, and never ever found lenses that fit comfortably. And any cigarette smoke that got in my face or my eyes was damn near torture.
I was SO happy to see cigarettes banned! Still thrilled about it! And HUGELY relieved!
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I was very ill from cigar smoke on a Chicago-Miami flight the night before Super Bowl.
Coyotl
Jul 2013
#2
I used to be a practicing respiratory therapist. We even called it an allergy
Katashi_itto
Jul 2013
#96
I remember a flight from Hawaii to Denver in 1977. You could smoke in the rear of the plane.
likesmountains 52
Jul 2013
#5
Even when I used to smoke I couldn't stand it and always asked for the no smoking section.
Luminous Animal
Jul 2013
#6
Nobody should be forced to inhale secondhand smoke as a condition of employment.
Nye Bevan
Jul 2013
#19
You're honestly mad that you have to walk outside the HOSPITAL to smoke???
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2013
#170
I did not say that. I wish folks would pay attention to the actual words typed and not make up stuff
Tx4obama
Jul 2013
#174
"They came after our smoking rights and not enough people stood up", frowny frown.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2013
#175
there is no right to poison other people with toxic fumes. one is perfectly free to posion
msongs
Jul 2013
#8
And they are all outside, which is exactly where smokers belong too.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2013
#172
1999....flight to Cairo...I flew on Egypt Air ...you could smoke in the back of the plane.
HipChick
Jul 2013
#9
Smoking on planes was causing health problems for the flight attendants
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jul 2013
#11
I am very glad the freedom to breath non-smoky air has been given to me in so many places. Seatbelts
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#16
Separate smoking areas did not even come in until the late 70's - even in hospital cafeterias
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#26
I once had a couple sitting in the smoking section complain about my smoking.
sweetloukillbot
Jul 2013
#73
I won't mention his name - since that might be interpreted as unfairly calling someone out
Douglas Carpenter
Jul 2013
#29
That banning the release of toxic particulates into the air diminishes people's "rights."
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#34
It wasn't the beginning. The first law that said you can't punch someone in the face
pnwmom
Jul 2013
#43
yes. and in stores and business offices and lots of places. i actually find the crowded
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#32
Spoken like a true Ron Paul supporter. Forget those environmental regulations
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#139
You just said that laws that save lives and protect the health of workers
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#143
Actually I can. I can also remember when the airlines gave you a little pack of six cigarettes
Cleita
Jul 2013
#41
I too, flew on "antique planes"..and also remember the piano bar in COACH on 747s
SoCalDem
Jul 2013
#110
I can remember *being forced* to smoke in planes, in bars, at work and in the restaurant.
lumberjack_jeff
Jul 2013
#42
I think it was 1998 when we flew to Europe and my daughter age 12 and I were seated in the smoking
vanlassie
Jul 2013
#44
I am sick of overlords myself, but knowing what I know now, I would not smoke on a plane, not that I
lonestarnot
Jul 2013
#47
have you ever noticed that smoking in a gambling casino doesn't seem to bother anybody
Booster
Jul 2013
#52
"Smoke nazis"??? And what are you? You want us to ignore medical science about smoking
CreekDog
Jul 2013
#166
Ah, you'd wear it sporadically, because wearing it sporadically makes you sporadically safer
CreekDog
Jul 2013
#186
So, you think it's ridiculous to protect the health of people who work in bars
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#141
I sure do remember when you could smoke on airplanes. The first change was to move the smokers to
napi21
Jul 2013
#57
NO - it was the ascendance of the rights of those not addicted - not the diminishing of the rights
Mira
Jul 2013
#67
Exactly, thank you. My right to breath non-smoky air has been improved. However, I think
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#77
Last Dec. on a Costa cruise ship, with about 2/3 European passengers
No Vested Interest
Jul 2013
#76
1988!!! Smoking restrictions for flights of 2 hours or less became the law in 1988!!
Major Hogwash
Jul 2013
#180
so you're saying that protecting the staff from smoking is not important as allowing cigarettes?
CreekDog
Jul 2013
#164
Starting by bemoaning the "right" of some asshole to blow smoke all over me
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2013
#123
That's libertarian horseshit. Why not let Dow chemical be "free" to dump shit in the river then? nt
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#138
I remember almost choking to death on all the fumes. Smoking kills. Thank God it was banned.
graham4anything
Jul 2013
#127
Smoking on an airplane imposed an unhealthy situation on unwilling bystanders.
kestrel91316
Jul 2013
#132
According to the smoking libertarians, nonsmokers' rights are not relevant. nt
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#144
My right to avoid inhaling cancer fumes outweights someone else's right to emit them,
geek tragedy
Jul 2013
#137
Yep, I remember fidgeting with the ashtrays in the armrests when I was a kid.
Butterbean
Jul 2013
#155
I think the erosion of our rights began in the early 1990s with laws requiring bike helmets
onenote
Jul 2013
#162
No, but I remember when other people were, and the rest of us couldn't fucking escape.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2013
#171