Leaving ashtrays intact reduced the chances of a fire, thus keeping everyone safe during the flight. Though cigarette smoking in the U.S. has dropped over the years, it appears that airplane ...

"Once I caught my arm on the open ashtray and now I have a scar there." In 2019, a man stunned passengers after smoking on a plane while travelling to Minnesota on a Spirit Airlines flight.

“First of all, let me just correct, there are no ashtrays on the plane,” Kraft said. “That goes back 30 years ago. I don’t know, anyone gone on a plane with ashtrays? There’s no ashtrays.