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Originally Posted by ian@huth
You are quite free to do so if the airline you are flying with allows smoking and the aircraft is not registered in a country which has smoking bans in aircraft.
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And you're free to continue smoking in a pub that's not in a country which has a smoking ban! Purleeeze, stop body-swerving. UK law makes the act of smoking on UK-registered aircraft illegal, just as UK law* is soon to make the act of smoking in UK pubs illegal.
What, exactly, is the difference? Why are we not continually assailed with 1000-post threads arguing about the infringement of civil liberties caused by the ban on smoking in aircraft? After all, if enough people wanted to fly on smoke-free planes, market forces would provide them and they could choose to fly smoke-free, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
*Albeit separately for Scotland, England, Wales and NI