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> no punishment is too harsh, this should be considered the equivalent of lighting up a cigarette on a plane.

Okay this is ridiculous. One is a fire hazard and the other is not. Do you really need the hyperbole here?

Are you aware that smoking used to be allowed on planes? We didn't stop allowing it because of a rash of airplane fires either.

Yes, I'm fully aware. And it is emphatically irrelevant. It's kind of ridiculous to suggest the original motivations for the rule somehow render the associated risks on people's safety, lives, and properties permanently ineligible for consideration.

Japanese pilots still smoke every flight

The lack of cigarettes on a plane isn't due to the fire hazard.

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