I always use it any way. Bunch of bollocks like the general phobia of using a phone at a gas station or people that think wifi gives them headaches, absolutely no evidence for it being dangerous or disrupting equipment.
Those kinds of rules are the favorite of all rent-a-cops and stewardess, the kind of law that no one quite understands but must be enforced because it gives them a minuscule amount of power over other people.
Also, air on a plane was much cleaner when smoking was allowed, but airlines are cheap and don’t want to use fresh air for their cabins and would much rather recycle the same stale disease ridden air for hours.