Smoking Pilots

[dixieflyer]

Nausea? Headaches? Give me a break. You must be some kind of flip boy sissy. Do you call in sick when you smell jet fuel? That would probably put you into a coma. Wipe you gooie poo, and suck it up.

 

[WrightAvia]

Originally posted by sleepy
I really don't care what people do, it is their business. I do like the fact that most of the smokers are senior to me. They will die at a younger age, and I can move up the list faster.

Not if that senior smoker dies while driving his car and "head on" collides with you while you are driving...then there will be two vacancies.

 

[Catbird]

Normal Routine- 1.Wake up in my non smoking room. 2. Light ciggy #1 of the day and turn the Wx channel on to check the days adventure. 3. Stroll into the non smoking bathroom and whiz. 4. Open door of non smoking room and grab the non smoking USA-Today. 5. Fire up the non smoking rooms coffee maker after running the water for a while so that the impurities can purge from the non smoking rooms plumbing. 6. Fire up ciggy #2 and tell FiFi the F/A to stroll on back to her non smoking room. 7. Finish ciggy #2 and change the TV to the Western Channel or check the sports scores, drink a little non smoking room coffee while reading the non smoking rooms USA-Today. 8. Head into the Corporate Board Room for the daily constitutional, Fire up ciggy # 3 while delivering the message. 9. Finish ciggy #3 in the non smoking rooms water closet. 10. Take shower shave and ease into my flying costume. 11. Fire up ciggy #4 as I stroll to the non smoking room floors elevator. 12. Wait in lobby for crew and to board non smoking van for the non smoking airport. While riding to airport Thurston the non smoking pilot bitches about the smokey smell in his room while primping his hair and tie. I comment "Yep those non smoking rooms are nasty. Just think what damage a cigar would do? Thurston you should have joined FiFI and I on the field trip last night. The Cheese Enchiladas with Chile washed down with those ice cold Sempatico's were very tasty. Lets grab some Krystal burgers if we have time. How about it Thurston, FiFi's hungry too?"

 

[flyhard]

Catbird,

That was the funniest sh!t I have ever read on this board.

Flyhard

 

[jobear]

What I can't stand is a pilots breathe that smells like rottten cadaver meat and they don't seem to notice. And yes i smoke but I use alot more breathe mints a month than cigs. I have had a pregnant Capt tell me the smoke smell on my uniform was making her want to barf,sucked to be her. Time for a smokey treat

Buhbye
Jobear

 

[Gulfstream 200]

jobear nice avatar!

I agree, some pilots have serious $hit breath and wont take a mint..."no really, please have one"...

 

[Mr Hat]

Firstly, there is NO evidence that second hand smoke does any harm to anyone, it will not hurt you. May annoy you but it wont hurt you. So lets stop with the BS now. You can walk into one of those smoking lounges once a day for the rest of you're life and you wont develope cancer from it.
If you dont like it, stay away from it. The communist PC control of this world has already kicked smokers out of every establishment in the country, so its not like you cant get away from it. Quit whining and worry about yourself not the guy lighting up OUTSIDE.

(On a side note, If I were you, I'd avoid leaving the country because the rest of the world arent PC and they dont impose their views on the smokers. This is the only country in the world that smokers are treated like criminals.)

 

[trainerjet]

Firstly, there is NO evidence that second hand smoke does any harm to anyone, it will not hurt you.

(This is the only country in the world that smokers are treated like criminals.)

All I can say is thank GOD that my company (Alaska Airlines) treats smokers like the criminals that they are and tests for nicotine as part of the pre-employment drug screen. Test positive, not hired. No nicotine users of ANY kind allowed here!! We have a safe haven and don't have to worry about it.

 

[RJPilott]

All I can say is thank GOD that my company (Alaska Airlines) treats smokers like the criminals that they are and tests for nicotine as part of the pre-employment drug screen. Test positive, not hired. No nicotine users of ANY kind allowed here!! We have a safe haven and don't have to worry about it.

oh geeze...lol... and i bet this guy hangs out on highways looking for cars, trucks, vans emitting too much exhaust with cell phone in hand ready to dial 911... too funny

 

[trainerjet]

oh geeze...lol... and i bet this guy hangs out on highways looking for cars, trucks, vans emitting too much exhaust with cell phone in hand ready to dial 911... too funny

Not really. Just stating fact. Alaska Airlines allows no nicotine users of any kind. Sorry it that offends YOU!

I believe it was Mr Hat who first labeled you criminals.

 

[RJPilott]

lol.. not offended. Remember, this thread was started for those offended by smoking... sooooo... i guess i could say.. sorry it offends YOU! However, my smoking did pass my 10 yr criminal history check..

 

[trainerjet]

However, my smoking did pass my 10 yr criminal history check..

Glad to hear that. Nah...just having a little fun with those who take everything so seriously (read...Mr Hat )

Take care.

 

[Palerider957]

Actually many companies and municipalities are taking this no nicotine stance. I believe the foundation is the health care costs incurred from insuring smokers, not to mention the extra sick days smokers take off compared to non-smokers.

Employee groups are tired of having to pay extra premiums for smokers, even when they don't smoke.

Look at the military, no one is allowed to smoke in basic training and smoking is actively discouraged--again due to huge health care costs.

 

[WrightAvia]

Yea...health care costs of smokers. The states sued to get money from big tobacco companies. Then that jack ass Jim Doyle, soon to ex-governor, took the money in a lump sum to pay off the state deficit. By negotiating a lump sum, the state sold their settlement for pennies on the dollar. No money left over to take care of the smokers. Guess it's time to sue again.

 

[N813CA]

trainerjet

trainerjet



I know of a pilot at Horizon airlines. He just stopped smoking before he got hired and once he got hired he now smokes. So I don't think your perfect little world is so perfect.

 

[cxcap]

Do you really think that someone who pays money to put smoke into their lungs and increase their chances of getting cancer is going to care about you when they don't even care about themselves?

 

[tittyjet]

Second hand smoke doesn't do any harm -- what a moron -- what a maroon.

I personally knew a retired TWA pilot who developed lung cancer later in life; he never smoked. His doctors (plural) told him in NO uncertain terms that all those years of being locked up with guys who smoked all day in the cockpit had a direct, causal relationship to him developing cancer.

 

[Kneeboards Rock]

TittyJet, I'm sure no one has ever in history got lung cancer who didn't smoke. How about a genetic disposition to cancer? How about dumb luck?

I'm a non-smoker but if I want to get away from smoke it's really easy these days.

 

[kepjet]

It's kind of funny how so many people from average Joes to corupt politicians are trying to ban smoking.

Just the other night I was driving home and I was forced off to the side of the road by someone who was obviously drunk. I happened to be smoking at the time. When I thought about it later while I was laying in bed, I remembered an overnight in Tampa last month. I found it ironic that I could not smoke in the bar/restaurant where someone could possibly get drunk enough to potentially kill someone that night.

When was the last time anyone got forced off to the side of the road by a smoker?

It seems our government (state, local, etc.) is telling us it's o.k. to kill someone tonight after drinking, but we don't want people to die after years of tobacco use. Our government tried to outlaw alcohol once, right? It didn't work.

I know that smoking puts me at risk for health problems in the future, but I do it anyway. Why? It's my choice.

I know that drinking alcohol also puts people at risk for health problems. Again, it's a choice.

I totally agree that a smoker has an obligation, especially in uniform, to use discretion on where he or she indulges. When I am in uniform I try to find the most secluded area I can to smoke. Ironically, most employee smoker areas at airports are in fairly hidden areas anyway, if they have one at all.

People are going to smoke. People are going to drink. Little kids are going to pee in pools. Management will screw workers. Gravity will make a 36-24-30 woman a 24-36-40. We are all going to die someday. Unfortunately, these are ALL facts. Life is too short as it is to worry about things we cannot change.

The next time some drunk runs you off the road, ask yourself if that smoker is REALLY bothering you.

 

[Captn]

Believe me, there are many worse activities that some pilots engage in than smoking.... I wouldn't lose any sleep about smoking among flight cresws.