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smoking in the plane?


Just light up! Nobody seemed to mind it either! Smoke goes into your face and its ok!!

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Yeah, movie is before anti-smoking nazis were about


You don't have to stand tall, but you do have to stand up!

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This film was also done during a time in history when cigarettes and smoking were thought to be healthy! Doctors were convinced it was a cure-all for many different sorts of ailments including asthma and even stuttering! (Tho the belief of stuttering is further back in history during the reign of King George in England in the early 1940s: See "The King's Speech") so of course smoking on planes and anywhere in public was condoned as being perfectly normal and fine. Weird huh?

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back in the day if you asked the stewrdess3es would give you a small pack of cigs like 4 cigs in it i think, super cool.

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Yes, this film is set in the heyday of the smoking Nazis. Fortunately the discomfort of the majority for the selfish satisfaction of the minority has almost been eradicated in civilised society.

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it went on a lot longer than 1972,
You could smoke on a plane in the mid 90s!

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