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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Reading about smoking ban proposals before the tobacco master settlement in 1998 is always a trip: www.nytimes.com/1984/02/15/u...

The nation's airlines, joining forces with the tobacco industry, urged the Civil Aeronautics Board today not to ban smoking on flights of less than two hours.

The ban has been strongly pushed by opponents of smoking, prompting the board to renew its consideration of the issue after it rejected a similar proposal in 1981.

Beginning two days of testimony from opponents and supporters of the ban, the industry's Air Transport Association told the board the airlines were providing ''reasonable accommodations'' to both smoking and nonsmoking passengers.

''Smoking is a fact of life,'' said Kathleen Argiropoulis, representing the association and most of the major airlines. ''It is something we must accomodate.''

But John F. Banzhaf, a spokesman for an antismoking group, Action on Smoking and Health, said that despite the practice of separating smokers and nonsmokers on aircraft, cigarette smoke ''creates a serious, documented problem for many passengers.''

The tobacco industry argued that most airline passengers opposed a ban on smoking and were satisfied with a separate, nonsmoking section.

''There is no credible scientific evidence that smoking aboard modern aircraft endangers the health of nonsmoking passengers,'' Richard Kingham, counsel to the Tobacco Institute, told the board.

Adrian Nesta @justanesta.com · 04/12/2025

I had a similar jolt when I stumbled on something the CDC published from ~the turn of the century. bsky.app/profile/just...

Adrian Nesta@justanesta.com

I was reading something that backlinked to a 1999 CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report listing the ten great public health achievements of the century. Striking how many of these are directly or indirectly in the crosshairs of our conservative political movement. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Calling 2000 "the turn of the century" is an act of aggression