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Monday, October 16, 2006
1:04:00 PM EDT
Hearing Motel Lullabies -- Gramophone
Smokers! Remember when you could suck on your sticks of flame with impunity on an airplane? Now you can relieve the experience! Uh, as long as you're going from Düsseldorf to Tokyo:
A German entrepreneur wants to create a nostalgic smokers' haven above the clouds by starting a nicotine-friendly airline offering Cuban cigars, caviar and flight attendants in designer uniforms — as well as smoking allowed in every seat.
Alexander Schoppmann, a 55-year-old former stockbroker, has come up with a business plan for Smoker's International Airways, or Smintair, which he says will offer flights between his home town of Düsseldorf in western Germany and Tokyo...
Schoppmann said non-smokers are welcome and would even find the cabin air much more refreshing than on any other flight because the airline will pay the added cost of a system to add outside air to the cabin air conditioning. He insists that non-smokers would face no hazards aboard his planes. "Second-hand smoke doesn't exist," he said. "At the most there is something that smells, but perfumes smell, as well."
I think this sounds like a fine way for this fellow to burn through his money, and I'm not likely to use it -- even if I were in Düsseldorf and had a hankering to head to Tokyo -- but, hey, if it makes him and other smokers happy, then I hope they enjoy themselves. There's nothing like adding tar to your lungs at 36,000 feet. I assume.
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1:04:00 PM EDT
Hearing Motel Lullabies -- Gramophone
Thank You For Smoking
Smokers! Remember when you could suck on your sticks of flame with impunity on an airplane? Now you can relieve the experience! Uh, as long as you're going from Düsseldorf to Tokyo:
A German entrepreneur wants to create a nostalgic smokers' haven above the clouds by starting a nicotine-friendly airline offering Cuban cigars, caviar and flight attendants in designer uniforms — as well as smoking allowed in every seat.
Alexander Schoppmann, a 55-year-old former stockbroker, has come up with a business plan for Smoker's International Airways, or Smintair, which he says will offer flights between his home town of Düsseldorf in western Germany and Tokyo...
Schoppmann said non-smokers are welcome and would even find the cabin air much more refreshing than on any other flight because the airline will pay the added cost of a system to add outside air to the cabin air conditioning. He insists that non-smokers would face no hazards aboard his planes. "Second-hand smoke doesn't exist," he said. "At the most there is something that smells, but perfumes smell, as well."
I think this sounds like a fine way for this fellow to burn through his money, and I'm not likely to use it -- even if I were in Düsseldorf and had a hankering to head to Tokyo -- but, hey, if it makes him and other smokers happy, then I hope they enjoy themselves. There's nothing like adding tar to your lungs at 36,000 feet. I assume.
Would you want to take a trip on this airline?
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Oh, how I long for the day when JetBlue offers a $200 round-trip from New Jersey to California with an all-smoking service!
*dreams* -
Ugh! NO! I spent my childhood growing up with a dad who smoked sometimes as much as 2 packs a day. He smoked in the house, in the car, and any where he liked. The worst was when he smoked during the winter in the car with the windows rolled up. Because of this nasty practice ( they didn't know that second hand smoke was actually bad for people), I now have an ongoing battle with bronchitis. On the positive side, my dad no longer smokes, so my kids are exposed except when they're with their own dad.
Schoppmann is wrong! second-hand smoke DOES exist. If it doesn't exist, why do I now have trouble breathing when I'm around smokers? What a moron!
Jess
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10/17/06 10:48 AM