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1992-08-28
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GRAPEVINE, Page 15Heavy Clouds In the Lavatory
By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
U.S. and Canadian air-safety experts are comparing notes
on the often dangerous ways cigarette addicts try to foil
lavatory smoke detectors. Smokers frequently remove batteries
from the detectors, while other passengers carry shower caps to
cover the devices. Some smokers have been caught desperately
blowing smoke into vacuum-operated washbowl drains and toilet
bowls. Other fliers find legal but far more elaborate methods
to circumvent the law banning smoking on domestic flights of six
hours or less. To baccoholics traveling coast to coast have
been known to book a stopover in Mexico as a legal way of
obtaining a smoking seat aboard an international flight.