Quote from: Uncle Duke on July 15, 2020, 10:54:00 AM
No, I never smoked. Seeing my grandfather, a lifelong smoker, die a long, lingering death from emphysema served as a warning to me.
The rules regarding smoking on commercial a/c really evolved through the 1980s. One of the latter iterations required airlines to accommodate any passenger who requested a non-smoking seat. So if the only seat left on a flight was in the last row, the whole aircraft was designated non-smoking. I was on a flight from LAX to St Louis where that happened. Things got ugly, to the point the pilot threatened to land an hour into the flight and have federal charges brought against some of the irate passengers. When we did land in St Louis, the non-smoking passenger who had pissed off the smokers was asked to deplane ahead of everyone else to be gone from the gate area before the smokers in the rear left the aircraft.
I always flew Muse Air when I could. First non-smoking airline and nice, new MD-80s.