Charles JohnsonI’m so old I remember when we could walk onto airplanes for a transcontinental flight with no security checks at all, and then everybody chain-smoked like fiends for the whole trip.
I should add that I was one of the weirdos who didn’t smoke.
Maintenance crews used to find leaks in the aircraft fuselage by looking for the yellow streaks left by all the nicotine escaping from the pressurized smoke-filled cabin.
toxtethogrady@Green_Footballs Ah, smoking on the airplane....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJWD9jQvhc&ab_channel=Underworld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmJWD9jQvhc&ab_channel=Underworld
Underworld & Iggy Pop - Bells & Circles
Mrs RavenI once sat in the "no smoking" section which was the row behind the "smoking" section.
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Michael Wyman@cassandracorvid @Green_Footballs I remember plenty of restaurants where the nonsmoking section was at the back, far from the door. So of course, by the time you were seated your throat was as sore and your clothes stank as if you’d sat in the smoking section the whole evening.
So glad so many states have gone nonsmoking in most establishments.
I remember sitting at the "no smoking" table at a restaurant in North Bend, WA in the 1970s and it was in the back, next to the janitorial cabinet. :D
@Green_Footballs planes at the time were just giant cigars
ferricoxide@Green_Footballs I missed the smoking, but traveling in the 90s meant having actual room on the flights, no TSA and being able to say goodbye or pick up at the gate rather than at the ticketing counter or luggage return, respectively.
Mycotropic@Green_Footballs and the #FlightAttendantsUnion won that settlement because of that completely insane practice!
Tracy Hall@Green_Footballs ...kept the masses quiet and in their seats. The worst was the first-six-rows "smoking section"