The luxury of the 70s and 80s was to eat caviar, have well-made drinks, smoke cigars and cigarettes on board. Many experienced what is called the golden age of aviation, basically having a first class ...

It is hard to remember a time when lighting up a cigarette was as commonplace as drinking. You could easily see passengers light up their favourite cigars on flights, at least till February 25, 1990, ...

Signs banning smoking may not have as much of an impact on secondhand smoke concentrations as the presence of ashtrays or ashtray equivalents. Signs banning smoking may not have as much of an impact ...

In case a passenger does illegally sneak a ciggy, planes must have a safe place to put out the butts, like the one inside the bathroom door on a KLM aircraft. In the so-called glamorous early days of ...