“Here come the planes.
They're American planes.
Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?”
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O Superman (1981)
“We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had hit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly, 'If I cannot smoke, I shall die.”
Unexpectedly, this turned out to be true.
1960s, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967-1969)
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