Electronic Smoking Devices Appear to be Banned on Commercial Aircraft
August 9, 2008 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Air Travel
In the “what will they come up with next” category, NJOY (among other companies) has developed an electronic smoking device.
It runs on batteries or USB, and looks like a cigar, cigarette, or pipe, and is designed to simulate real smoking. It looks like, smells like, tastes like the real thing, right down to the glowing tip that makes it look like it’s burning. There’s even a vapor that looks like smoke.
I haven’t seen these on a flight yet, but they are cropping up more frequently these days.
A quick, informal, and non-scientific poll of my Flight Attendant friends …read more
