The Nation - News from Sept. 30, 1987

The chairman of a Senate subcommittee said he will propose legislation prohibiting smoking on domestic airline flights of two hours or less. The announcement by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.) means that advocates of airline smoking restrictions, already successful in the House, will have a running start in the Senate. Lautenberg’s Senate transportation appropriations subcommittee plans to write legislation containing the smoking language today, and the full Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider the bill Thursday. Lautenberg’s legislation would cover a three-year period. The House approved a permanent ban on smoking on flights of two hours or less on July 13.