THINGS ARE GETTING HOT UP IN THE AIR
The absurd smoking prohibition in airplanes drives many people to exasperation. Here are two stories that are actually meant to show how bad smokers are -- and maybe, these people were actually violent. But if the airlines would be respectful of the right of smokers to light up in airplanes, and at least special smoking flight were made available, this kind if incidents would not happen -- as they never happened before.
It is clear that the brutal suppression of smoking in airplanes, based on glaringly fraudulent claims on the dangers of ETS is meeting with an ever-growing resistance. For one incident that gets reported, very many more go unreported. We are supportive, and sympathetic to those people who lose it when locked in a flying cage for many hours, being coerced to behave against their nature after paying hefty fares for the only transportation available for overseas travels.
EXASPERATED BY THE PROHIBITION, SHE LOSES IT
Woman Arrested For Smoking On Plane
(Source:Reuters Headlines)
08/11/98 - FBI agents and San Diego Harbor police have arrested a woman accused of causing an uproar on a SOUTHWEST AIRLINES Plane. Forty-two-year-old Amparo Quintero
allegedly screamed obscenities when flight attendants opened the plane's restroom door when a smoke alarm went off.
Quintero was caught smoking in the restroom, and then reportedly hit another passenger. If convicted of all charges, Quintero could face as much as 20-years in prison.
THE INFRINGEMENT ON THEIR RIGHT TO SMOKE MAKES THEM BLOW UP
San Diegan, German Removed From Plane San Diego
(Source: Union-Tribune)
08/07/98 - A San Diego man and a German woman were arrested Wednesday at Bangor International Airport in Maine after they acted belligerently on a CONTINENTAL AIRLINES flight. The woman made what was perceived as a bomb threat, causing the plane to make an unscheduled landing.
The incident started a couple hours into Continental Flight 55, which was heading from Paris to Newark, N.J., when Natali Rajak was told she could not smoke her hand-rolled cigarettes. Rajak, a 24-year-old German national attending the Sorbonne in Paris, argued with the flight crew and was threatened with arrest.
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