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- <text id=89TT2848>
- <title>
- Oct. 30, 1989: American Notes:Airlines
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 59
- American Notes
- AIRLINES
- Leave the Butts Behind
- </hdr><body>
- <p> "The captain has turned off the no smoking sign" are words
- that will no longer be heard on most U.S. planes. In 1988 a
- congressional ban on smoking aboard flights lasting less than
- two hours took effect. Now legislators have reached an agreement
- to forbid smoking on all commercial flights within the
- continental U.S. and on flights of six hours or less between the
- mainland and Alaska and Hawaii. The legislation, which is
- expected to pass both the House and Senate, also applies to
- foreign airlines for any part of their flights within the U.S.
- Flight attendants worried about their own health, and many
- airline executives happy to get rid of the hassle of separating
- smokers and nonsmokers, approved the ban. After this latest
- loss, the tobacco industry is using its declining clout to try
- to stop an increase in the cigarette tax and a ban on smoking
- in public places.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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