This Is Why We Can’t Smoke on Flights Anymore
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The Politics of Smoking on Airliners
In 2004, a Supreme Court case Olympic Airways versus Hussein awarded $700,000 in damages after passenger Dr. Abid Hansen had a fatal anaphylactic reaction from sensitivity to secondhand smoke. In 1983 and 1984, congressional hearings were held on the subject of smoking on airliners. The 1986 National Research Council's report proposed that smoking be banned on all commercial flights within the United States.
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