Title: Why airline pilots should not smoke on airplanes?

Introduction

In the early years, by flight attendants and health advocates to make commercial airliners do not smoke, it was productive. Advocacy efforts between 1969 and 1984 led to the preservation of the status quo, with modest exceptions (creation of smoking and non-smoking sections of aircraft, as well as a ban on cigar and pipe smoking). (www.newyorktimes.com)Several breakthrough events in the mid 1980's, however, led to a dramatic turnaround in regulatory activities. The first event was the publication in 1986 of the National Academy of Sciences report on the airliner cabin environment, which recommended banning smoking on all commercial flights. Subsequently, following concerted lobbying efforts of health advocates, Congress passed a law banning smoking on U.S. domestic flights less than two hours, which came into force in 1988. This law has been on a continuous basis and applies to flights of less than six hours in 1990. This landmark legislation engine is similar standard at the international level as the airline industry and their governing bodies. Despite the fact that the tobacco industry managed to stall efforts to create smoke-free airways, it was ultimately unable to demonstrate sufficient grassroots support or scientific evidence to convince the public and policymakers that smoking should continue to have an opportunity for airlines. (Levenstein12)

Discussion

The movement to ban smoking on aircraft has its roots in public health advocates' petition with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency within the Department of Transportation charged with regulating the safety of aircraft. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader first addressed the FAA to ban smoking on aircraft in 1969. In the same year, John Banzhaf III, founder of Action on Smoking and Health "(ASH), has begun to exert pressure on regulators to mandate separate smoking and non-smoking sections on domestic flights. FAA never responded ...