The smoking ban on aeroplanes helped me get over being a very nervous flyer.
When you couid smoke, as you say I was always sat at the back. The first flight I took after it was banned, I randomly ended up in a seat that was forward of the engines, and was much less nervous from then on as...
All this reminds me of the first time I ever smoked in front of my dad. I was 22 and home on leave from RAF, and he was driving us down to The Goldstone for a match.
Both parents knew I smoked but I’d never smoked in front of them.
Dad lit a fag in the car and I plucked up the courage and...