Just upfront, so you know...
The Johnson & Johnson Board of Directors includes Leo F. Mullin, Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines, Inc. Gee, do ya think that might have something to do with the REAL reason that airlines were so quick (and suicidal) to go antismoking? And this page details some of the fruits of their antismoking policies.
(Here's the screenshot of the JnJ BOD and a screenshot of Mullin's place in the JnJ family--in case the company gets wise to the fact that people are connecting the dots and, hence, maybe the company should cover its tracks/remove the evidence.)
Boris Johnson Room 101 Smoking
The only thing they didn't mention was that, after smoking bans were implemented on airplanes, the manufacturers downgraded the ventilations sytems. Passengers and crews started getting sick. Now, we're all just sorta "used to" worse air quality on planes.

"Frequent Fliers Saying Fresh Air Is Awfully Thin at 30,000 Feet", The New York Times, June 6, 1993.

"Study claims aircraft air quality causes DVT"

Abolish smoking bans and bring back GOOD air quality!
Also Pertinent:
Mortality from Cancer and Other Causes among Airline Cabin Attendants in Germany, 1960-1997," American Journal of Epidiemiology, Vol. 156, No. 6, which states on p. 564,
We found a rather remarkably low SMR [Standardized Mortality Ratio] for lung cancer among female cabin attendants and no increase for male cabin attendants, indicating that smoking and exposure to passive smoking may not play an important role in mortality in this group. Smoking during airplane flights was permitted in Germany until the mid-1990s, and smoking is still not banned on all charter flights.
This study came from the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, School of Public Health-WHO Collaborating Center, University, Bielefeld, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany. The study can also be found directly at Oxford Journals. Incidently, this is not the only on secondhand smoke and was suppressed; another large WHO study was eventually brought to mainstream media, and both the study's results and the politics to suppress it are more than interesting.
FAA bans use of anti-smoking drug by pilots (Channel 9 News, Colorado, 5/21/2008)Quote:
Pfizer, in a statement, reaffirmed its stand on the drug's safety and said that label already contains safety warnings about driving or operating machinery.
"It is important to understand the limitations of spontaneous adverse event reporting," the company said. "Often these reports lack sufficient medical information and/or have confounding factors that prevent a meaningful assessment of causality."
WebMistress: It's amazing. These drug companies encourage researchers to ignore the most basic tenets of scientifc research in antismoking "studies" when people get cancer fifty years after being exposed to SHS/ETS, but getting seizures, suicidal tendencies or any of the other serious symptoms/sideeffects only days after taking a drug isn't sufficient because they ahven't checked for confounders. Unbelievable. How could anyone trust drug-funded research? Tobacco never corrupted science the way that pharma has. Never.
After all of this, there are still fools who believe that disposable lighters are now off the forbidden list at airport security because tobacco lobbied for it. Seriously. Do you think that might be because the airlines are in deep financial trouble after ticking off a large percentage of their customer base for decades? Maybe? Naw, let's blame Big Tobacco, despite the fact that tobacco companies have been forbidden to lobby or advertise for many years now.