Any Smokers Here?

[wacojoe]

I was lucky...my father was a heavy smoker at home, and I learned to despise the habit at an early age. Despite considering myself a libertarian, I relished the movement later in my life, when smokers were effectively banished from restaurants and the like.

[TriGuy]

I was lucky...my father was a heavy smoker at home, and I learned to despise the habit at an early age. Despite considering myself a libertarian, I relished the movement later in my life, when smokers were effectively banished from restaurants and the like.

I remember when they first separated restaurants into smoking and non smoking sections. I was in the non smoking area. A smoker came in and out up next to me. I told him this was a non smoking section and he flipped me off. I grabbed the cig from his lips and ground it out in his food. I think I scared the crap out of him. He left the table without a word to me.

[Phillbo]

How about the smoking sections on airplanes. Like that made a difference.

[Dave Grubb]

How about the smoking sections on airplanes. Like that made a difference.

On international flights they would try to build a two row buffer zone----if there were enough empty seats

The European airlines continued to allow smoking long after the US carriers ended it---but in stages. The first stage was flights over a certain time duration---and they finally got to zero tolerance. It took a couple of more years before the needy stopped thinking they could sneak one in the loo.

[wacojoe]

Many years ago, my wife & I were taking a trip to Italy aboard a 747. It takes a long time to load the passengers on one of those things, and smoking was not permitted even back then during the process, so people with the habit could not feed it. Back then lots of people smoked and even a greater percentage of Europeans were hooked. When the plane got to cruising altitude and the No Smoking lights went off, the poor deprived smoke fiends all lit up at once on the airplane. I thought we were going to choke to death on the spot.

Incidentally, I read once that there was a good aspect of cigarette smoking on commercial airplanes. The story goes that engineers looked on the outside of fuselages for tell-tale smoke signs because the higher pressure inside at altitude forced the smoke through the tiny cracks of stress fractures in the skin of the craft leaving discoloration. That may be the single beneficial aspect of cigarette smoking.

[Mike]

I was lucky...my father was a heavy smoker at home, and I learned to despise the habit at an early age.....

Same here. It was godawful stinky pipe smoke.

[Truckman]

Same here. It was godawful stinky pipe smoke.

I truly miss burning Flying Dutchman tobacco in one of my meerschaum lined briars......Ben

[Phillbo]

Incidentally, I read once that there was a good aspect of cigarette smoking on commercial airplanes. The story goes that engineers looked on the outside of fuselages for tell-tale smoke signs because the higher pressure inside at altitude forced the smoke through the tiny cracks of stress fractures in the skin of the craft leaving discoloration. That may be the single beneficial aspect of cigarette smoking.

Thats a true fact.