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Did you know they had a smoking room on the Hindenburg?
I know a punchline was expected after reading the thread title 
but there really WAS a smoking room.
https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors/
The Smoking Room
Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg (Airships.net collection)
Perhaps most surprising, aboard a hydrogen airship, there was also a smoking room on the Hindenburg. The smoking room was kept at higher than ambient pressure, so that no leaking hydrogen could enter the room, and the smoking room and its associated bar were separated from the rest of the ship by a double-door airlock. One electric lighter was provided, as no open flames were allowed aboard the ship. The smoking room was painted blue, with dark blue-grey leather furniture, and the walls were decorated with yellow pigskin and illustrations by Otto Arpke depicting the history of lighter-than-air flight from the Montgolfiers’s balloon to the Graf Zeppelin. Along one side of the room was a railing above sealed windows, through which passengers could look down on the ocean or landscape passing below.
Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg (Airships.net collection)
The smoking room was perhaps the most popular public room on the ship, which is not surprising in an era in which so many people smoked.
Pressurized Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg, showing door to the bar, with the air lock doors beyond. (Airships.net collection)
The Smoking Room
Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg (Airships.net collection)
Perhaps most surprising, aboard a hydrogen airship, there was also a smoking room on the Hindenburg. The smoking room was kept at higher than ambient pressure, so that no leaking hydrogen could enter the room, and the smoking room and its associated bar were separated from the rest of the ship by a double-door airlock. One electric lighter was provided, as no open flames were allowed aboard the ship. The smoking room was painted blue, with dark blue-grey leather furniture, and the walls were decorated with yellow pigskin and illustrations by Otto Arpke depicting the history of lighter-than-air flight from the Montgolfiers’s balloon to the Graf Zeppelin. Along one side of the room was a railing above sealed windows, through which passengers could look down on the ocean or landscape passing below.
Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg (Airships.net collection)
The smoking room was perhaps the most popular public room on the ship, which is not surprising in an era in which so many people smoked.
Pressurized Smoking Room aboard LZ-129 Hindenburg, showing door to the bar, with the air lock doors beyond. (Airships.net collection)
A modern equivalent to the Hindenburg's smoking room would be Trump's White House bedroom, the birthplace of many tweets.
Okay, guess there was a punchline.
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He should wipe his fingers as well as his arse since more shit comes from them. 
On the Titanic are still full....
...in which she's smoking a bowl and he admonishes her for having a lighter outside of the smoking room. 
I loved that movie - I rushed to the theatre when it was released in 1975 (I was 10).
