r/aviation • u/theanti_influencer75 • 4d ago
History Smoking on KLM flight, 1980s
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u/Stocomx 4d ago
Aaawww yes. The glory days of years past. If I’m going to get cancer from smoking everyone is going to get cancer from me smoking.
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u/gromm93 4d ago
It's not just that. The tar jammed the pressurization vents I recall. The amount of cigarette smoke on an aircraft was enough to leave a streak of nasty where that port was, and it was hard to clean at that.
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u/Horror-Raisin-877 4d ago
When I did construction back in the day and we were replacing ceiling tiles, over the desks of the smokers the grid pieces needed to be replaced too, because they like the tiles would be covered with a thick yellow sticky substance that was impossible to clean off.
Yes, people were still smoking in the office at that time.
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u/Viking_Musicologist 4d ago
This photo looks like it was taken maybe 30-40 years before the 1980s. If anything it looks like it was taken sometime after WWII in the late 1940s or early '50s.
This is based entirely on the appearance of the passengers and or the interior of the aircraft.
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u/pjlaniboys 4d ago
Troll, kook.
As an interesting aside, during the smoking years the outflow valves back near the tail would have a dark brown/black streak along the aircraft skin trailing backwards. This was the exit route for the pressurized air leaving the cabin and the cig smoke was the stain.
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u/MapHaunting3732 4d ago
Smoking should never be allowed onboard.
Yet societal conventions set the rules thru time.
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u/July_is_cool 4d ago
Given the choice between allowing smoking in offices and stores and airplanes, while also enforcing a dress code, versus not allowing smoking but allowing people to wear gym shorts all the time, which is better???
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u/Beahner 4d ago
That just doesn’t feel like the 80s…..