Tobacco Articles: category air_travel

Cigarettes Designed for In-Flight Smoking: Ryanair's 'Smokeless' Packs

tips@jaunted.com (JetSetCD) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

What are made in Germany, exported from Gibraltar, only used at 35,000 feet and sold onboard Ryanair and bmibaby flights? That's right--they're Smokeless Cigarettes, designed to satisfy the cravings of heavy-smoking airline passengers who can't go without for more than few hours and are willing to pony up 6 Euro for a box of ten substitute sticks. We first announced that Ryanair was bringing the Similar brand Smokeless ciggies onboard back in September, and we finally had a chance to hope a flight and purchase a pack ourselves recently. . . . How do they work? Since we aren't smokers, we asked our seatmates on the flight for their impressions, since they also bought a pack for the novelty of the thing. Apparently you just suck air through it, and although it tasted like glue to them, they admitted feeling a brief hit of what you'd get from a real cigarette. The box warns you not to "use more SIMILAR smokeless cigarettes per day than you usually smoke normal cigarettes." And all of the usual cigarette warnings apply, like no pregnant women should use them and no one sensitive to the effects of nicotine. If you want to see one for yourself, Ryanair advertises the availability of them via their in-flight magazine. Simply hail a flight attendant, pick your flavor, and hand over 6 Euro per pack.

Tough smoking laws keeping Japanese away

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

The Tourism Bureau said yesterday it would coordinate the establishment of smoking rooms at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport after a Japanese tourism association complained that the nation’s strict airport smoking ban had kept Japanese tourists away. During the third Taiwan-Japan Tourism Summit Forum in Nantou, the Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) said that an amendment to the Tobacco Hazard Prevention and Control Act (菸害防治法) passed in January last year that limits smoking to certain areas at airports was “threatening” Japanese tourism. Liu Hsi-lin (劉喜臨), chief secretary of the bureau, said Japanese tourists frequently complained that there were no smoking facilities at the airport, which prompted the airport to create two outdoor smoking terraces in January.

1 held for smoking on flight from Urumqi

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region authorities yesterday denied media reports that two people were detained after one of them set fire to toilet paper in the lavatory on a flight taking off from regional capital Urumqi during the weekend. "Only one person was detained for smoking in the toilet, not for setting fire to toilet paper as some media reported. The second person was taken away by police because the two were traveling together," regional spokesperson Hou Hanmin told China Daily yesterday. The Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday that the crew of China Southern flight CZ6939 discovered that a passenger had allegedly set fire to toilet paper in the lavatory, which triggered the fire alarm.

All designated smoking areas in airports to go

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Acting on reservations expressed by the Tobacco Control Cell, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) of Pakistan has instructed all airport managers to remove or dismantle the structures of all Designated Smoking Areas (DSAs) functioning within passenger lounges, and to strictly follow and implement laws that prohibit smoking in places of public use or work. “The structures of designated smoking zones in airport lounges, including VIP lounges, should be dismantled or removed,” instructs a written order issued to all airport managers by Regional Director South Hanif Khattak on Friday.

Don't throw out cigarette butts...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Ann Braun, who used to be an air hostess, recently came across an excerpt from an American manual for "stewardesses" which, she points out, was "slightly before my time but very funny". The manual was dated 1930 when, of course, aircraft went slowly and had windows one could open. Under the heading "Duties of a Stewardess", it said: . . .

Swat flies in cabin after take-off.

Warn passengers against throwing lighted smoking butts or other objects out of the windows, particularly over populated areas.

1 held for smoking on flight from Urumqi

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Four Southwest Florida International exits to be smoke free

lruane@news-press.com (LAURA RUANE) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The indoor smoking ban at Southwest Florida International's passenger terminal is moving outdoors, to a limited degree. Lee County commissioners meeting Monday as the port authority board unanimously approved establishing four no-smoking zones immediately outside the terminal. These will fall within a 50-foot radius of the two main entry doors - numbered 2 and 5 - on both the first and second levels. Ash receptacles will be moved, and signs alerting people to the new rule will be posted in about two weeks, according to airport staff. "It's not going as far as I would have hoped for, but I think it's a reasonable step," said Commissioner Frank Mann.

POLL Group wants to limit, not ban smoking at Southwest Florida International Airport

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Travelers may soon have to walk a few extra feet before lighting up outside Southwest Florida International Airport. The Airports Special Management Committee begrudgingly agreed Tuesday to recommend restricting smoking to 50 feet from the two main entrances on both the upper and lower decks. The panel, which advises the Lee County Board of County Commissioners who sit as Lee County Port Authority commissioners, had been asked by the commissioners to study a smoking ban. But some committee members said they did not believe the current system was broken so providing an alternative could be an end run around a total smoking ban.

Airport committee: Total smoking ban 'not the right move'

support@nbc-2.com (Katie LaGrone) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

FORT MYERS: An airport advisory board with Southwest Florida International Airport agreed that a total smoking ban is not necessary. However, they did agree to make some changes. The airport attracts 15-million visitors every year and the decision could potentially affect about 3-million of them. In response to Lee County Commissioners' request to look at the possibility of a total smoking ban on the campus of the airport, members of the Southwest Florida International Airport Special Management Committee instead decided to recommend a compromise.

SWFL Int'l to discuss smoking ban

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

A possible smoking ban takes center stage at the airport today. An airport committee will discuss whether to impose smoking restrictions at SWFL Int'l Airport.

RSW weighs smoking ban

support@nbc-2.com (Katie LaGrone) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

RSW: Airport leaders will discuss how to make Southwest Florida International Airport a smoke free campus when they meet Tuesday. Smokers currently cannot smoke inside, but they can light up just outside the doors to the airport. At Tuesday's meeting, the airport's executive director will lay out options.

A smoke-free St. Louis airport may pit city against county

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay plans for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to be completely smoke-free when the city's new smoking ban takes effect in January 2011. And that includes the airport's smoking lounges. Slay commented on his blog this week after fielding questions from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a conflict between the new St. Louis County smoking ban which exempts the smoking lounges and the city ban which does not. Both take effect on Jan. 2, 2011. Slay noted that the airport is a "political hybrid," in that it is in St. Louis County but owned by the city. But the decision on smoking, Slay said on his blog, belongs to the city, "as owner of the facility." St. Louis County counselor Patricia Redington said the smoking lounge exemption is clear in the county ordinance.

Mayor Slay: All of Lambert, including smoking lounges, will be smoke free

mgillerman@post-dispatch.com (MARGARET GILLERMAN ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay plans for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to be completely smoke-free when the city's new smoking ban takes effect in January 2011. And that includes the airport's smoking lounges. Slay commented on his blog this week after fielding questions from the Post-Dispatch about a conflict between the new St. Louis County smoking ban -- which exempts the smoking lounges -- and the city ban -- which does not. Both take effect on Jan. 2, 2011. Slay noted that the airport is a "political hybrid," in that it is in St. Louis County but owned by the city. But the decision on smoking, Slay said on his blog, belongs to the city, "as owner of the facility." St. Louis County counselor Patricia Redington said the smoking lounge exemption is clear in the county ordinance.

CABE: Going up without the smoke

rmaccabe@irishtimes.com (ROSEMARY Mac CABE) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Need a nicotine hit? Want to beat the smoking ban? A smokeless cigarette could be the answer, for the long - or short - haul. Just be prepared for some funny looks, writes ROSEMARY Mac CABE . . . Ryanair now sells the other most popular type, in the form of Similar smokeless cigarettes. Ryanair's head of communications, Stephen McNamara, says the product was introduced due to customer demand. "Some passengers can find it stressful to spend long journeys without a cigarette so we introduced the product based on customer feedback and to cater to passenger demand. It seemed a logical step to introduce a product that could provide smokers with relief from nicotine withdrawal. . . . I spent a day with Ryanair's Similar branded smokeless cigarettes: a packet of 10, purchased for €6 on board a Ryanair flight, to see how it feels to smoke on the right side of the law. The first thing I notice is that they smell, to all intents and purposes, like what one's mother might call "sucky sweets" - irrefutably better than mainstream cigarettes, albeit slightly strange. They feel like real cigarettes and, crucially, they look like them. . . . Smoking a cigarette that looks like a cigarette, acts like a cigarette but neither tastes nor feels like a cigarette (while giving you more nicotine than a cigarette) seems an odd choice.

Airport's smoking ban could go outside : Mann wants Lee to study expansion of prohibition

lruane@news-press.com (LAURA RUANE) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

It's OK to smoke outside Southwest Florida International's passenger terminal, but that could change. Lee County commissioners directed airport staff Monday to study prohibiting smoking on the grounds of the airport and at the Page Field general aviation facility. A ban would apply to both airport workers and members of the public. Smoking already is prohibited indoors at county airports. Airport director Bob Ball said staff would have to study how to police the situation and also janitorial issues if, for example, they removed the ash receptacles. Commissioner Frank Mann broached the topic Monday, calling second-hand smoke a "health issue" for airport visitors and for the people who work there.