# Does any airline still allow smoking?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 20, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-airline-still-allow-smoking/568273 "2011-01-20T02:14:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-airline-still-allow-smoking/568273/41 "2013-11-04T18:30:41Z")

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Of course, if they were going to disallow lighters and matches on board, thanks to the shoe bomber, why and how would they allow smoking anyway?

But seems to me it’s been generally disallowed anywhere. China has some very nice, very big airport terminals nowadays and I don’t recall anyone being allowed to smoke in the general public areas in any of those either.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-airline-still-allow-smoking/568273/42 "2013-11-04T20:58:09Z")

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If any airlines still allow smoking, it’s going to be one on this dated (2003) list.

[http://hem.passagen.se/fungus/airlines.html](http://hem.passagen.se/fungus/airlines.html)

I see scattered threads on airline and travel forums that say Air Cubana still allows smoking.

My guess: if any others still do, they’re probably small independent airlines in Africa, like something that would fly into Mogadishu.

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-airline-still-allow-smoking/568273/43 "2013-11-05T21:10:48Z")

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> [@Dangerosa](#):
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> But the vapor released does contain particulate matter for which we do not know what the health effects are.
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> If a non-smoker is in a small space with a bunch of people smoking e-cigs - its still nasty. The vapor smells and clings to clothes. Not as bad as cigarettes - vast improvement over that. But it still isn’t pleasant.  
> .

Are you talking from your own experience??? IME e-cigs vapour smell ranges from non-existent to sligthly reminiscent of whatever the e-cig is flavoured at (coffee, fruit, etc…) and even in the latter case doesn’t linger on. Vastly less noticeable than, for instance, people’s anti-perspirant or perfume.

I strongly doubt that you could smell it on your clothes, especially two weeks later.

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-any-airline-still-allow-smoking/568273/44 "2013-11-05T21:37:58Z")

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> [@clairobscur](#):
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> Are you talking from your own experience??? IME e-cigs vapour smell ranges from non-existent to sligthly reminiscent of whatever the e-cig is flavoured at (coffee, fruit, etc…) and even in the latter case doesn’t linger on. Vastly less noticeable than, for instance, people’s anti-perspirant or perfume.
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> I strongly doubt that you could smell it on your clothes, especially two weeks later.

[I started a poll there](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707013).

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