What an asshole.Get an electronic cigarette, puff in the bathroom. Water vapor isn't going to set off any alarm.

Or hell, a nicotine lozenge or something.

You can go without an honest to goodness cigarette for a while...

Why is it that some asshat lights a smoke and the entire flight has to be diverted? Unruly or not is it really a situation worthy of emergency landing? Unruly or not, just fly the plane and arrest him at the final destination. If he refuses to stop smoking.....umm...oh well...shiat happens, deal w it ladies.

St_Francis_P: MaudlinMutantMollusk: St_Francis_P: Nicotine is a hell of a drug.

I suspect another popular drug may have been involved, too

Alcohol is a gateway drug to sex, which is a gateway drug to to nicotine.

All three are the devil.

Gee, if only he'd have known that smoking wasn't allowed on a plane. Is this a new rule or something? It's not like the airlines advertise this or mention it in any way.

Rest of the passengers should have been allowed to pimp slap him, one at a time, for the rest of the flight. Extra slap for $5.

We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!

GAT_00: Krymson Tyde: St_Francis_P: MaudlinMutantMollusk: St_Francis_P: Nicotine is a hell of a drug.

I suspect another popular drug may have been involved, too

Alcohol is a gateway drug to nicotine.

True. I was the only one of my group of friends from college that smoked and everytime alcohol consumption was involved they all started bumming smokes from me.

Yeah, I've never understood that one. Why are you more inclined to smoke while drinking? You need the booze to make you stop caring about the lung damage?

I've smoked probably 15 cigarettes in my life, all at bars or parties when I've been drinking. It just feels natural but I can't explain why.

They're going to make an example out of this guy.

SchlingFocker: What air travel used to be like:

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And then we have, what travel today looks like:

Article doesn't say it, but it's only a 2 1/2 to 3 hour flight.

Sack up nancy! Was smoking 1/2 - 2/3 a pack a day and I did Newark to Shanghai without any butts! That's 16 hours if you if you include my connecting flight to NJ, boarding time, and customs in Shanghai before I could inhale the sweet sweet sector of the nicotine gods!

Dude is a friggin' moran. Should have to compensate every other passenger for lost time, etc. Take your 'need' elsewhere dude, no one gives a damn if you "think" you can't go a few hours without a smoke.

I've done a lot of additive stuff in my life but smoking is the worst, when I quit (every spring) I'm pretty much the worst human being on the planet for two days. I'm talking completely unreasonably irritable and drinking coffee constantly.

You missed your connection.

Why are these things still legal from a government that in all other words and actions wants us to believe they care about us so much? Money. Addictive and with no benefit and toxic as hell. I wish I had the money to troll the shiat out of Gov't all the way to the supreme court(if possible). I'd start my delicious Carmelized Asbestos Squares business. Then when I was shut down I'd sue all the way up riding on previous tobacco company studies and rulings that allowed other fatal, nonessential products be sold regardless of everyone knowing they are no better than eating asbestos.

Kazan: fark em.. enjoy your jail sentence you egocentric asshat.

This. Hero tag? Should be Asshat

rudemix: I'd start my delicious Carmelized Asbestos Squares business.

Do they come in menthol?

"I remember smoking on airplanes."
"OH, SHIAT! THAT WAS SO LONG AGO!"

He bought his ticket. He knew what he was getting into. I say, "Let 'em rot in the clink if he can't pay the airline and everyone onboard for their lost time!". FFS.

C'mon man, it's just like a restaurant: if you want to smoke, step outside.

SchlingFocker: What air travel used to be like:

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And I think that same stewardess was on the last US Air flight I was on.

.pecosdave: [www.northerner.com image 400x323]

The "make it through the flight" smoking substitute. Throw it out when you get to where you're going if you want, but dammit, it will get you through the flight.

Someone starts spitting tobacco in a Mountain Dew bottle next to me and they won't have many teeth left after the flight.

rudemix: I'd start my delicious Carmelized Asbestos Squares business.

Are you looking for investors?

Generation_D: Back in the 70s, the "you are now free to move about the cabin" announcement was followed by the audible click of dozens of Zippo lighters opening up and lighting cigarettes. It was an oddly soothing sound to an 8 year old kid. The grownups all could smoke, so the tense part of the flight was over.

Watching people holding a cigarette and a lighter till that announcement was an "all clear" sign.

I'm fat, but I can go a few hours without eating. Should be the same for any smoker. And if you delay a flight I'm on with this kind of stunt, you better hope the FBI gets you before I do.

/why yes, my issue of ITG just came today

I'm a smoker.

This guy is an asshat of the worst (best?) caliber. Hell, I'd have kicked him in the nuts.

As other smokers have said, (I'm about half a pack a day again, almost quit last year though. Almost.....) I do not understand smokers who can't go a few hours without a smoke. I work 9-10 hours days in a completely non smoking environment. I smoke one on the way to work, and leave them in the car. I don't crave them at work, I don't smoke at work, I don't even light one on the way home until I'm out of the parking lot because the whole campus is non smoking.

Farking farktard smokers giving the rest of us, who really just want to go home, have a cocktail and a smoke in our own homes, a really bad name.

Fark him. Fark him with a baseball bat wrapped in brillo wire.