Press conference by airline flight attendants demanding that all domestic flights be non-smoking (03:38) Hosted by John Banzhaf III, Founder, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) 1989 The flight attendants are dying and have died from the cigarette smoke they have been exposed to on the jobWe are truly hostages at 35,000 feet. Flight attendant Patty Young Up in Smoke: The Airline Flight Attendants Fight to End Smoking Aloft (53 images) Slide presentation by Alan Blum, MD at the 2004 annual conference of the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), Miami, Florida, and at the Flight Attendant Symposium at the Louis A, Turpin Aviation Museum at the San Francisco International Airport, November 30, 2004, depicting the parallel rise and glorification of air travel and cigarette smoking from the 1920s to the 1960s, the distribution of cigarettes to passengers by airlines, the introduction of smoking and no-smoking sections, and the 20-year effort by flight attendants for a smoke-free workplace, culminating in the passage by Congress of an airline smoking ban in 1988
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What do these sensors detect
Smoking paralyses the tiny hairs, or cilia, which line your windpipe and helps to clear dirt and mucus out of your lungs
