re: #162 Charles Johnson

But then, the downside was that on planes in that era, EVERYBODY SMOKED. Throughout the cabin. For the whole flight.

According to the Boeing engineers who took my bicycle tune-up class, the French were the last to ban cigarettes. Boeing was trying to invent a way to get the smoke out while flying at altitude. Apparently, a very, very small hole can suck a human through itself. I don’t know how they found that out. Probably computer simulations. But one guy didn’t finish the class…

/kidding on that last part

The last smokey public conveyance I rode in was an overnight bus in Turkey.