Cigarette lighter and ash trays

[Tantalum]

They put my headset jacks where my ash trays used to be front and back.

Nice panel!


They don't do it anymore (obviously) but my highschool had a 'senior stogie day' .. it was during graduation week and smoking was permitted for the seniors. It was awesome.

 

[flyingron]

The 170 I flew in had the headset jacks in the ashtrays.

There was a pretty common mod to install a folding cup holder where the ashtrays go in the Bonanzas.

 

[flyingron]

Russian cigs had a distinctly different smell, for some reason. Aeroflot had a BO & cig smell that was unique.

The popular one when I was there had a cardboard filter that was about half the length of the cigarette and you'd crimp it with your teeth before lighting it up.

 

[86Aviator]

It has been interesting to watch the societal changes regarding cigarettes and tobacco over the past 50 years....In Europe it's still not virtually forbidden like here in the US.

It's true. Bought a new Audi earlier this year that actually has four ashtrays AND a real live cigarette lighter. The Jeep Grand Cherokee I had before it had exactly zero ashtrays, but several "power ports". Haven't had a car with an ashtray and cigarette lighter in many moons.

I was out of college by the time indoor smoking bans were widely implemented. I can remember as a kid going to a restaurant and sitting in the non-smoking section without smelling a thing from the smoking section ~10 yards away. Walking through a huge casino in Vegas last week, I felt like I could smell each of the handful of cigarettes lit in the massive place. Times, they are a'changin.

 

[flyingron]

I remember asking for non-smoking on a foreign airline years ago and being told it wasn't necessary to smoke in any area of the aircraft.

 

[Ghery]

A couple stories -

Back in the late 1980s / early 1990s I had a flight from LAX to FRA on LH. Front row of the non-smoking section. The next row forward of me was the back row of the smoking section. There was a solid wall of smoke coming over the seat backs for the entire flight. No thanks, I don't miss those days at all.

I claim responsibility for Tandem Computers going smokeless indoors about 1989. We had built a new 10 meter RF semi-anechoic chamber in Cupertino, CA with an incipient smoke detector system that would fill the sprinkler pipes with water if it triggered. Then an overheated (or defective) head would release all that water, wiping out about $1 M worth of absorbers. I banned smoking in the lab to avoid a false trigger of the system. Our director thought that was such a good idea that he banned smoking in our building. Upper management liked that idea so much that they banned smoking indoors everywhere in the company. So, I take the blame (or credit) for starting the whole thing.

 

[UngaWunga]

My first job out of college had a glass room in the center of the floor for the smokers. There was always a nasty haze in that room, and you could smell the stench when you walked by. The smokers would go in and wolf down a cigarette as quickly as they could (mostly sales people) and go back to their desks, like junkies getting a fix.

 

[Brad W]

My first job out of college had a glass room in the center of the floor for the smokers. There was always a nasty haze in that room, and you could smell the stench when you walked by. The smokers would go in and wolf down a cigarette as quickly as they could (mostly sales people) and go back to their desks, like junkies getting a fix.

I remember seeing the smoking room in some airline airport when I used to fly a lot for work..... there was on in particular...I think in Atlanta, that clearly had negative air pressure. It was one of the side rooms with the one entrance wall being all glass but open with no door. like one of teh magazine shops but open with no stuff apart from a few chairs. This particular time was a busy airline push I suppose the room was literally standing shoulder to shoulder. Busting at the seams as I remember it.... and the smog was so thick you could barely if even see the back wall of the room. Made me laugh out loud as I hurried past

 

[kgruber]

Part of the hazing during "hell week" at the fraternity was the "smoke-filled room." You couldn't see 6 inches!