E-cigs and aeroplanes

[prepareathome]

Does anyone know how airlines feel about e-cigs?

Longest journey including from going to boarding gate to when I arrived and got out of airport has been 7hrs and I admit was dying for a cigarette then ( before I found e-cigs). I might, be going for a slightly longer journey

later this year and wondering has anyone found any airlines letting you use them just now. I will be flying to Melbourne in two years and hoping by then things will have improved, as I know Australia is not e-cig friendly, but will cross that bridge when it comes, wondering about now.

Thanks

[jerryrm]

All I can say is that at the present time, they are not allowed on flights in the U.S.

[Chrissie]

Quite a few members have vaped at airports without any trouble at all. Some airlines are OK about vaping on the plane, others not. However, you could stealth vape or vape in the loo:)

[kirsty0108]

I know that either Ryanair or Easyjet sell e-cigs on their flights I flew to Paris in October with Ryanair and flew back with Easyjet can't remember which leg it was on !

Sorry this isn't much help but thought people might want to know about it!

[prepareathome]

Thanks if I can at least vape at the airport I will survive on the flight - I was lucky that if I was somewhere I couldn't smoke it didn't bother me much, it was just as the time neared an end then the craving would start to build up. As you say can always go and have a sneak vape in the bathroom If I use the Vanilla Tabac all that would be left is its smell so people would think how disgusting eating sweets while on the toilet lol

[X&Y]

That's interesting Kirsty

I'm flying EasyJet in May

Mind you it's only Alicante sure i can manage 2 hours

I managed 10 hours to Vegas

It's in the airport that bothers me more

I have been known to be found crouching over the bowl in a cubicle quickly taking a few draws on an analogue

Hopefully no more

[kirsty0108]

I am actually the same whufc , I think its cos I am not old enough to ever have been able to smoke on a plane so doesn't bother me , but when I am sat in wetherspoons in the departure lounge with my glass of wine I am like wtf why can't I have a fag with my glass lol!Not smoked in an airport since it became illegal, well only once when I was at newcastle and had a two hour drive back to edinburgh ahead of me with my granny who would kill me lol!

[X&Y]

I think i can vaguely remember going on a plane when i was a kid and you could smoke

In fact i remember going on a plane a few years later and they still had seats with ashtrays in the armrests but smoking was not allowed then.

I seem to remember on the flight as a kid it was just a thick smog and like buses when i was younger you had to sit at the back

Because then the smoke did not reach the front

Yeah right

The first job i had when i left school you could smoke at your desk and every job since has been either smoking rooms (open the door and walk through the smog) or lately outside

You can probably guess how old i am from my alias edit that'll be a year not my age lol

[jerryrm]

Kirsty, those were the good old days, when smokers weren't treated as second class citizens or as drug addicts. We were allowed to smoke on the planes and they didn't get filled up with smoke. Quite the contrary, the planes had good ventilation systems and the smoke was nicely taken care of.

[X&Y]

Jerry seems to remember it better mind you i was only 11 i think

Flying to Ibiza for the family's first ever holiday abroad


Ibiza was a lot different then to now either that or my parents messed up totally or were secret ravers

[jerryrm]

Whuf, I flew when I was in the Army and that was around 1970. I really don't remember seeing any smoke on the plane and I do remember the smoke from my cigarettes being drawn up into the ventilation system.

[X&Y]

Jerry i think you may be better informed than me in that case

Mine is just a blurry memory

I think i can remember when i started smoking when i was about 15 a pack of ten was 50p and 20 were £1 again i could be wrong.

Must have been weird in the days where people would just walk into a shop with a fag "on"

[jerryrm]

Yup and there weren't many complaints about the smoke either. The hysteria didn't start, until they came out with the "second hand smoke" theory, and turned it into fact. It has been drummed into the public's collective head that smokers are a pariah. Before that, not a problem except for the very few who were allergic to smoke.

[Gordy]

Feb 12, 2012 23:49:37 GMT @jerryrm said:

Yup and there weren't many complaints about the smoke either. The hysteria didn't start, until they came out with the "second hand smoke" theory, and turned it into fact. It has been drummed into the public's collective head that smokers are a pariah. Before that, not a problem except for the very few who were allergic to smoke.

yeah not a problem except for people getting smoking related diseases. i for one am glad that smoking has been banned from confined spaces such as flights, working places and pubs. sure its inconvenient for smokers but far more pleasant and safer for all.

a couple of years back i went on a Caribbean cruise with an American cruise company and was very uneasy about smoking being allowed in cabins. not for health reasons but for safety. can you imagine a fire on a cruise ship from one of the 4000 people aboard falling asleep with a lit cigarette ? it doesnt bare thinking about.

[domesticextremist]

I only ever toook one flight before smoking was banned on aircraft.
I know for a fact that when it was allowed, they used to change the
air in the cabin about five times more frequently, with the result that it
was fresher then than it is now!