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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (14785)	1/4/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

It is also more difficult to keep planes pressurized without smokers as the tar helped seal up microscopic gaps. Unfortunately, what it does to planes it does to lungs. I would rather not have my lungs stained by nicotine and sealed with tar. At least not while I'm still kicking.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (14785)	1/5/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

holly: <Funny that you should mention smoking on airliners. Several years ago, I read a blurb in the newspaper, which stated that in the days when smoking was commonplace on airplanes, otherwise inapparent hairline cracks in the crafts' structures would show because of nicotine staining. Now they must use other, somewhat less reliable means of detection.> Unfortunately, they do not. Therefore, many thousands will die in otherwise preventable airline crashes due to fatigued airframes. Father Terrence