It is about time. There are more people morbidly obese and/or drug users that will certainly pass on before most of us smokers. Some may cringe at the sight of a smoker, but the sight of a 300 lb. hippo or someone with crack 'sores' is totally nauseating.

You have got to be kidding

you're not funny....at all.

I think smoking in jets while flying is not a good idea. I suppose the smoke that comes from the smoking lounge will circulate through the plane?

It is bad enough when we have to inhale an already non-filtered air that circulates throughout the plane.

Smoking has to be banned on airlines for good. Regardless of cigarettes company that still try to destroy human environment.

I don’t want to sit next to a smoker who smells bad of smoke or smell his/her breath every time they come back from the smoking lounge.

If you don't want to sit on a plane with smokers, then take a non-smoking flight. I am sick and tired of being treated like a second-class citizen for having a cigarette now and again. I am not a full-time smoker, but do enjoy one - especially during a stressful situation like flying. Next thing you know they'll want to ban McDonalds and Haagen Das because it makes you fat. Everyone has the right to make a choice - just take another flight. I think this a great victory for smokers everywhere!

is this a "GAG" ?

Yea!!!! It's about time. For too long those who don't smoke have indulged in a campaign to marginalize those who do. Personally, I'd rather sit next to someone who smokes than some schnockered idiot breathing gin fumes on me.

Those who don't wish to be exposed to cigarette smoke have a multitude of options available. It's great that those who DO smoke have at least one place where they're still welcome.

Bravo SMINTAIR!
No kids and no sanctimonious non-smokers! I will definitely be a patron. Besides, body odor and germ-ridden children smell worse. And who wants to sit next to someone so fat that part of them is in your seat? Yuck. Don't want to sit next to a smoker? Don't fly on this airline.

"I don’t want to sit next to a smoker who smells bad of smoke or smell his/her breath every time they come back from the smoking lounge."

Then why on Earth would you even consider buying a ticket on a "smoking" flight?

If you don't like the smoke, or recirculated smoke, then you've an easy choice -- DON'T FLY THIS AIRLINE. For those who enjoy smoking en flight, then here's the airline for you. Personally, I would also like an airline which doesn't allow anyone to fly with them under the age of 6 (or alternatively has a sound-proof section where they and their adults must sit). I've been much more disturbed by crying/screaming babies than by someone smoking.

Folks smoked on airplanes until the last decade. Do I see a danger? No more than usual. I recently quit smoking, but I disagree when government dictates what we can or cannot do.

Leimomi,
Then don't fly that airline.

It is about time!

If you have a problem with smokers there is an easy solution...don't fly on this airline!

Then don't take this flight. As long as someone knows ahead of time what the situation is, he has no legitimate reason to complain. This applies to a whole slew of issues in which one group of people attempt to cram their personal preferences down _everyone's_ throats. Personal choice, personal responsibility. Cf: don't like restaurants that serve meat? Don't eat there. Don't mandate that all restaurants become vegetarian.

I am a former smoker but I still think that if you don't want to be exposed to smoking on a flight use another airline.
It's also about time that someone other than me is calling those "airline waitresses" stewardesses and hiring only women who are nice to look at and not "guys" who want to be women.

"Holy moley"......someone who's not affraid to use the 'stewardess' word, or affraid to provide good meals as well as to let you smoke afterwards.......dang, they might even let you have two carry-on pieces of luggage

"Right On" SMINTAIR,..... mom was right, what goes around comes around. Who knows, other airlines may jump onboard.

I hope they offer continental US flights.. I do a lot of travel here, and would certainly pay a premium to not around the self-rightous.

Ok, good for smokers, you have an airline, but Smoke On, here's something you said that I dont get:
"And who wants to sit next to someone so fat that part of them is in your seat?"
Who wants to sit next to someone puffing smoke in your face? Not me. Even if I was a smoker. And not everyone who doesnt smoke is self-rightous, pitying those that do.

The trouble I have with this is that other airlines might want to "jump on board" as Brian said.

I can envision an airline having aircraft that are nondedicated, so a craft that is smoking one day is nonsmoking the next. Then all of us with asthma (myself included) are treated to a "fun" 2-4 hours of low level irritation, and more than likely having an attack. That's not sanctimonious, it's just plain reality for anyone with asthma.

The sanctimonious people in my mind are those smokers who think their habits are merely a nuisance to others, and that we should just "tolerate their habit". Well, that may be true for chewing tobacco, but smokers can literally endanger the lives of people with asthma, COPD, etc.

As far as second class citizens go, that distinction goes to the children of smokers, who are forced to breathe very dangerous levels of unfiltered secondhand smoke while still undergoing development. It's no accident they end up with much higher incidences of asthma and other health problems thanks to selfish ol' mom and dad.

forget sanctimonious.

they won't get a whole lot of business, only people who smoke and people who don't care.

i'd take screaming babies and fat people over smokers any day - they have nothing to do with the air we have to share in that cramped cabin. hate unruly kids? spend $2 on earplugs or $10 on earphones. don't like fat people? buck up and pay for first class, ask for another seat, get an exit seat, or just don't sit in the middle.

there will be pure oxygen flowing throughout the cabin, and they're going to let people light up? you can't possibly believe that's a good idea, practically speaking.