The rise and fall of smoking in the west

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I’ve always heard that air quality was better when smoking was allowed because now that there is no smoking they filter and exchange the air much less. Don’t know if that is actually true or urban legend.

Found this interesting unexpected side effect on Forbes:

In the late 1990s aviation consultant Bob Mann worked for American in fleet planning. He recalls that the cessation of smoking had an unanticipated consequence. “From a maintenance perspective, it became more difficult to track lose rivets and fuselage cracks,” he said. In such events, “cabin air, filled with smoke, would lead to a stain on the fuselage. “So the maintenance guys lost a way to trace air leaks,” Mann said. But on the positive side, “they never had to change a cabin air filter again.”