The State - News from April 10, 1988

A survey at San Francisco’s airport found that 85% of the airline passengers questioned--including some smokers--gave the state’s new smoking ban on commercial flights high marks. The survey of more than 600 passengers showed that the new law works and is widely accepted and obeyed, according to survey director Stanton A. Glantz, a UC San Francisco medical professor. The measure, enacted at the beginning of the year, ended smoking on airplanes and all other forms of public transportation within California. A federal law banning smoking on all domestic flights of two hours or less goes into effect April 23. In the survey, 73% of passengers approved of extending the smoking ban to flights outside California.