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<text id=89TT2848>
<title>
Oct. 30, 1989: American Notes:Airlines
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<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
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<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.
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</body></article>
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