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| ▲ | michaelbuckbee 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Old person here. I think it's really hard to convey the extent to which smoke literally permeated everything. It's not just the immediate air quality aspects of it, but there was just a residue on all the surfaces, every cushion and fabric held onto the stuff. I can recall the week that no-smoking indoors at restaurants/bars passed and it was literally shocking to walk into a place and not have it be hazy. It really felt weird. Anyway, air quality + quality of life was much worse. Sometimes the future does get better. |
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| ▲ | JKCalhoun 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I had also heard that during regular aircraft inspections, the residue from cigarette smoke made small cracks and such in the airframe obvious. Today that sounds to me like urban folklore (or Big Tobacco folklore). |
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| ▲ | chris_st 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nope, not better quality if you don't like the smell of cigarettes. |
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| ▲ | 05 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Turns out using less engine bleed air is good for fuel economy, so now it's 50% recirculated HEPA filtered (which does nothing for the co2 contents) air. |
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| ▲ | xattt 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | How does this work for all-electric planes like the 787? | | |
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| ▲ | phs318u 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Lol. I was 14 when I took a long distance international flight on a 747 in 1979. The family was sitting in the “non-smoking section”. I can tell you for a fact that the air quality in that plane was terrible. Possibly because a number of passengers in the non-smoking section still deigned to smoke. Whaddaya do eh? |
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| ▲ | vintermann 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | There seems to be a door smoker effect to this day, where smokers are drawn to smoke just inside of the areas you aren't supposed to smoke. | | |
| ▲ | tialaramex 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's an addiction, they're compelled to smoke, and so at the edges of the area they'll light up. That's how the Kings Cross Fire started. Escalator full of potential fuel, smoker drops a used match, it falls inside the machine, fire. It wasn't legal technically to be smoking on that escalator, but it would have been legal in a few paces so "everybody" did it. The investigators found signs that such fires had likely started or almost started many times before, the disaster was just that this time it burned for long enough to create a pool of extremely hot gas flowing up the inclined ceiling for the escalator, and we got to discover the Trench Effect in the least fun way possible. |
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