1. Smoking isn't a culture? From the outside it sure looks like one.
2. The companies didn't choose to go all-no-smoking, they were forced to by the government. At least for domestic flights. For international flights, where the countries at both ends have banned smoking on domestic flights, I'm not sure whether they're allowed to allow smoking, but my guess is not, because if they were allowed to offer smoking flights, I'm sure there'd be enough demand for them, especially on the really long (10hr+) flights.
Then you have the airports that don't have smoking lounges. So someone gets off a flight, has a few hours' layover, and is going on to another long flight. They're going to need a smoke in between, and it seems to me that to get one their only option is to go outside the airport, and then come back through security. If they even can do that - what if they're transiting the country, with no visa to enter? Though, come to think of it, I believe the USA doesn't allow transit without a visa anyway, so at least that issue doesn't apply here. And countries that allow transit without visas probably have smoking lounges in the airport too.
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winterfish
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Date: 2005-07-24 01:27 am (UTC)2. The companies didn't choose to go all-no-smoking, they were forced to by the government. At least for domestic flights. For international flights, where the countries at both ends have banned smoking on domestic flights, I'm not sure whether they're allowed to allow smoking, but my guess is not, because if they were allowed to offer smoking flights, I'm sure there'd be enough demand for them, especially on the really long (10hr+) flights.
Then you have the airports that don't have smoking lounges. So someone gets off a flight, has a few hours' layover, and is going on to another long flight. They're going to need a smoke in between, and it seems to me that to get one their only option is to go outside the airport, and then come back through security. If they even can do that - what if they're transiting the country, with no visa to enter? Though, come to think of it, I believe the USA doesn't allow transit without a visa anyway, so at least that issue doesn't apply here. And countries that allow transit without visas probably have smoking lounges in the airport too.