[Commercial] Northwest Airlines - No Smoking (1988)

Northwest Airlines Commercial - No Smoking. I didn't know smoking was even allowed in airplanes back then.

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[scrap104]

Somewhere between 1987-1988.

[tiadaid]

This ad apparently caused the agency to lose their Nabisco account which at that time was part of the RJR Nabisco empire...

[gatewayeast1609]

Do you have the other Northwest Airlines No Smoking ad?

[zippyman818]

2000: U.S. Federal Law 106-181 sec. 252.3, passed on 4/5/00, took effect in June 2000. It simply says, "All carriers shall prohibit smoking on all scheduled passenger flights."

In 2002, a Greek airline permitted smoking between Athens and New York. An asthmatic who didn't expect to be on a smoking flight, had an asthmatic attack and died. His widow sued. This precedent-setting lawsuit that was decided for the deceased's widow by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 (02-1348).

[zippyman818]

1997: Flight attendant suit settles: lawyers for attendants get $49 million; tobacco companies get a shelter from future class-actions by attendants; flight attendants with lung diseases get nothing.

1998: No-smoking on all U.S. domestic flights.

1999: Japan Airlines bans smoking and offers passengers little plastic tubes to suck on to "help suppress the urge."

[zippyman818]

1973: No-smoking sections introduced.

1979: Cigars and pipes banned on planes.

1987: Air Canada offers no-smoking flights between New York and Montreal, and reports a reduction in aircraft cleaning costs.

1988: No-smoking on all U.S. domestic flights under 2 hours.

1990: No-smoking on all U.S. domestic flights under 6 hours.

1994: Nonsmoking flight attendants with lung diseases sue seven tobacco companies.

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, first of all; when people smoke there is no fresh air. Secondly, I never heard of anyone dying from flatulence (fart) cancer.

[malioil]

theyve been sold off to to Delta. By 2010 there 'phasing out' should be completed

[glen11ab]

why?

[Francotirador44]

The US airlines were loosing business to the carriers that allowed smoking. But at the end they all found out they could save huge on fuel, by recycling 75% of the cabin air. Thats a saving of about 3-6 metric tons on a flight, and no refuelling stops needed. So now you respire the farts and deceases of everybody on the plane. Way better before, when the airplane smelled of smoke but with fresh air all the time.

[malioil]

RIP NWA 1926-2010