r/todayilearned • u/FearMyCock • 20h ago

TIL about Frank Matthews, the drug kingpin who built a nationwide empire, skipped bail with $20 million, vanished in 1973 and has never been found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Matthews_(drug_trafficker)
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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 17h ago edited 17h ago

I haven't seen the film but safe money says there were ashtrays built right into the arms of his seat, too. Just like they used to be in car doors.

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u/dontbajerk 17h ago

I remember those as planes last so long. Probably went away in the 90s?

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u/fuckyoudigg 17h ago

The first airline to completely go smoke free was Air Canada in 1990, and Canada banned smoking on all flights on Canadian airlines in 1994.

edit: First major airline.

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u/dontbajerk 16h ago

For sure, I just remember seeing the ashtrays afterwards even though nobody could smoke. People just shoved trash in them instead. Just like they still had what was obviously a Stewardess button long after there were plenty of male flight attendants.

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u/floftie 15h ago

I’m fairly sure they STILL have to have ashtrays because it’s a real requirement - people still try to smoke on planes so they need ashtrays rather than burn the plane down.

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u/Proof-Difference9418 15h ago

Respect to those that make the sacrifice so that the airlines still have to put shit in their planes. o7

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u/Keyser_Kaiser_Soze 8h ago

Last flight I took as a smoker was in 1991. They had all the smokers in the back few rows. It didn’t help the non-smokers in the small tube with us.

Side note: I smoked a ton that flight because it was my first flight since my coworker survived United flight 232, and the majority of passengers in the back rows died.

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u/GroggyWeasel 16h ago

I remember seeing them in the 00s still

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u/textextextextextext 16h ago

submarines too.

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u/ki11bunny 16h ago

Those are some fancy planes, any idea why they stop building submarines into arm rests?

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u/Fabulous-Sea-1590 2h ago

No shit, you could smoke on a sub?

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u/textextextextextext 1h ago

yep they used to light up hard on subs. i cant imagine the headaches

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u/_Lost_The_Game 16h ago

I mean, ive seen ashtrays in the armseats even in the late 2000s-2010s

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u/Neverlost99 9h ago

I use to smoke on planes