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Fly SMINTair: Smokers International Airline
Last year we reported on a new airline trying to take to the skies called SMINTair. Everyone knows that for an airline to succeed nowadays they need to have some sort of angle: budget, luxury, high-tech, or in the case of SMINTair: cigarette smoke.Aside from offering to "treat its passengers like the guest of an international Grand Hotel," SMINTair will allow all paying customers to suck on a smooth, refreshing boomstick while en route to their destination. "Can you imagine the air in that plane after 12 hours? And your bloodshot eyes and stinky clothes?" Neil wrote in our earlier coverage. Turns out SMINTair has already thought of this.
"Non-smokers will find the cabin air more refreshing than on any other flight with any other airline, as SMINTAIR adds fresh outside air to the conditioning system!" their website reads. Not all is peachy, however. "This is more expensive, as it burns more fuel, but it is seen as an additional service to our guests."
Now they've got the anti-smoking advocates and the environmentalists on their back. Not a good move. But according to Globorati, the airline "has now scored daily slots at Dusseldorf airport," which means, I guess, that they're at least one step closer to actually flying.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
drstrangegun Aug 19th 2007 8:24PM
" SMINTair will allow all paying customers to suck on a smooth, refreshing boomstick "
Uh... suckin' on the barrel of a gun?
This word you keep using, I do not think you understand what it means...
Justin Glow Aug 19th 2007 8:29PM
We called them boomsticks where I grew up. I know it's from Army of Darkness, though I'm not sure why we started using the term for cigarettes.
Zohar Sep 9th 2007 8:26PM
you don't like the smoke...use a different airline!
Kathy Sep 9th 2007 8:49PM
IT IS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE STARTS STANDING UP FOR SMOKERS RIGHTS. GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
scott Sep 9th 2007 9:29PM
YES, A SMOKING AIRLINE, WE HAVE RIGHTS TOO,THATS RIGHT, YOU DONT LIKE SMOKE, FLY CONTINENTAL! OTHERWISE , BAN FOOD FOR THE OBESE, AND BOOZE FOR THE BOOZER, AND CELL PHONES FOR THE IDIOTS WHO DONT CARE IF YOU ARE NEXT TO THEM, AND KIDS THAT CRY, ETC. ETC. .... HOW DO YOU LIKE IT!!
Beverly Pinion Sep 9th 2007 10:29PM
I will fly with this company forever. Smokers have rights also, if you do not want to fly with this smoking airline then use another, we all have our options. Please fly from Florida to Las Vegas non stop. I'm with you all the way!
Nancy Allen Sep 9th 2007 10:49PM
This country is being rule by groups of people that want to rule others. Smoking may not be good for you, but so are other things not good for you. Should we put a ban on perfumes,seafood etc. That bothers me when I go to eat out and someone has strong perfume on or there is the smell of strong fish etc. but I don't complain or say anything. I just go somewhere else. Why should any one group try to stop others from what they are doing? Don't smokers have any rights at all? There are other places that are for non-smokers, so quit trying to put your opinions on others. This I thought was a free country?
Nancy Allen Sep 9th 2007 10:55PM
This country is being rule by groups of people that want to rule others. Smoking may not be good for you, but so are other things not good for you. Should we put a ban on perfumes,seafood etc. That bothers me when I go to eat out and someone has strong perfume on or there is the smell of strong fish etc. but I don't complain or say anything. I just go somewhere else. Why should any one group try to stop others from what they are doing? Don't smokers have any rights at all? There are other places that are for non-smokers, so quit trying to put your opinions on others. This I thought was a free country?
Barbara Michalski Sep 9th 2007 11:50PM
YOU SMOKE I CHOKE. WHEN YOU KEEP YOUR SMOKE FROM BLOWING IN MY FACE THEN YOU CAN LIGHT UP YOUR CANCER STICK. OTHERWISE SNUFF IT OUT. AND WHEN YOUO HAVE CANCER DON'T COME CRYING TO ME! MY SISTER AND BROTHER BOTH DIED FROM CANCER DUE TO SECOND HAND SMOKE. DO YOU SMOKE BY YOUR CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN? I HOPE THEY WEAR A MASK!
Nancy Allen Sep 9th 2007 11:05PM
THERE ISN'T AS MANY BUTTERFLYS, OR LIGHTING BUGS ETC. AND WE ARE ALL GOING BECAUSE OF AIR POLUTION. sO QUIT WORRYING.
ron lee Sep 10th 2007 12:05AM
Most smokers have tried to quite and could not. Maybe, just maybe, if it's bannded enough, some littlechild won't suffer from asma because you did't smoke around him or her and maybe you won't die from some sort of lung ailment. I'll bet some will say It's my choice and the the hell with that child. that makes you less than!!!!!!!!
Sally Sep 10th 2007 2:50AM
I have been listening to the "smoking" debacle for along time,,,,What amazes me is the vehemence of non smokers who choose to ignore the real problems in the air we all breathe.. which I feel is what governments are trying And succeeding in doing....focus on smokers- you can see it and smell it and relate to it - it is Cheaper than actually making an all out effort worldwide to have clean air. I have read alot of the documentation on so called "second hand" smoke and it seems that unless an individual is extremely sensitive/has a family history of weakness/cancer a person would have to be daily in enclosed room with a smoker for a long time for long term damage to Possibly occur....which sounds like a very Dumb person to me or a hostage...A Doctor/Surgeon in CA has said that the lungs of non smoking residents there are WORSE Than smokers from other states!..Anyway- the smoking bans seem to have taken on a life of their own (politically correct??), lets non smokers feel good about themselves while they booze it up, drive their belching autos, say the H with any who disagree with them..Enjoy telling others how to live their lives all because Non Smokers can't read SIGNS, or ignore them so they have something to complain about..Signs like "Smoking" Section, "Smoking" Allowed...While Smokers Seem to be able to Read- like Non Smoking signs....Well now I see Children in restaurants with BARS-right up at the counters with Mom and Dad- future drunk drivers, cerosis of the liver and more???....I agree Smoking is not healthy for anyone...and I do agree with those who advocate if smoking is banned then all and EVERYTHING deemed not healthy should also be banned! The ONLY Safe haven from Everything Unhealthy like smoking, pollution,obesity,cars,planes etc etc etc is DEATH.....BON VOYAGE to all the self righteous do gooders out there - have a safe non smoking trip!..PS-I do not smoke but I do respect others Rights to do so -and their Right to Allow smoking on premises that they OWN....
Charles Sep 15th 2007 3:04PM
Wow, its about time smokers started speeaking out, our rights have been taken away almost totally, and more restrictions are coming,,Im Just wondering when Restrictions on poopieing, will start, and how often were allowed, Laugh if you Like, but the way i see it its on the way ,,to us here in Good old USA, Land of the Free, I think were loseing more and more freedoms. the saying land of the Free, Should be Changed, to land of Rights that Governments wish us to Have, Wheather we like it or Not. China, Cuba, and Russia Traditional Communist countries, now have more Freedoms than Americans do , Charles In N Y
Gary Sep 15th 2007 3:44PM
Amen, Charles!
rae Sep 22nd 2007 7:29PM
Umm you must have the wrong link for that smintair because the one you have goes directly to a porn site. Unless that is the official website of the airline?