jfaignant wrote:

No, the real reason airlines have embraced no smoking policies is that it
saves money. The tar from tobacco products was very hard on the air
conditioning systems and outflow valves. Once they had a reason to ban
smoking, they jumped on it.

The best reason of all is to spare other passengers having to breath the
smoke. Airliner air quality is poor enough just from the human
pollution that we don't need to add extra pollution to the mix.


Matt