{"id":4132,"date":"2017-12-12T06:36:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T06:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2017-12-12T06:36:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T06:36:45","slug":"people-freaking-out-because-they-cant-smoke-on-an-airplane-how-is-this-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"People freaking out because they can’t smoke on an airplane … how is this still a thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stewardesses smoking on a plane. Nice beehive. I’m guessing about 1967?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s yet another in a long line of nitwits freaking out on an airplane because she can’t smoke.<\/p>\n

A woman lost her mind<\/a> on an airplane because she disabled a smoke detector, then threatened to start killing people on the plane when she was confronted.<\/p>\n

Get this, it was a flight from Sacramento to Portland, Ore. Basically a 75-minute flight. She really couldn’t go two hours without lighting up?<\/p>\n

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Ah the days … when there was no escaping other people’s smoke.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I swear, I come across some article about someone either losing their shit on an airplane or getting arrested for trying to light a cigarette in an airplane restroom at least two or three times a year. At least. Seriously, this isn’t that isolated. Here’s another<\/a> incident. And another.<\/a>\u00a0And another<\/a>. I could find dozens if I spent enough time.<\/p>\n

I don’t get it. It’s been illegal on all domestic flights in the U.S. since the early 1990s and it’s been illegal on ALL flights entering or leaving the U.S. since 2000. So, for the past 17 years, you cannot light a cigarette on any airplane, since 1990 or so, you can’t light up on any domestic flight in the U.S. Smoking has been banned on airplanes throughout much of the world for at least a decade.<\/p>\n

So, why is this still a thing? I shrug my shoulders. Some of it, I think it’s some weird phenonenom where people with mental health issues are prone to freakouts on planes and people with mental health issues are often times calmed by smoking so they don’t think about what they’re doing. I’m going to guess the woman on the Portland flight has mental problems.<\/p>\n

But, what about the assholes who keep trying to smoke in bathrooms? Knowing they’re in a very confined space with no escape with pressurized air, ie, it’s incredibly fucking dangerous to smoke on a plane which is one of the reasons why it was banned. Is it that hard to get a patch if the nicotine addiction is that bad? (And thank god vaping on a plane is also illegal with vaping pens’ tendency to periodically explode.)<\/p>\n

Again … it’s a thing. And will continue to be.<\/p>\n

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Here’s yet another in a long line of nitwits freaking out on an airplane because she can’t smoke. A woman lost her mind on an airplane because she disabled a smoke detector, then threatened to start killing people on the plane when she was confronted. 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