{"id":53611,"date":"2025-04-14T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=53611"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:48:47","slug":"why-is-this-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/why-is-this-still-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is this still a thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/why-is-this-still-a-thing\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"853,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wp-17447424008472673769352206538735.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-600x600.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/wp-17447424008472673769352206538735.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashtrays remain on airplanes, even with smoking bans, primarily because of safety and legal requirements. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandates their presence near lavatories, not because of current smoking policies, but to provide a designated and safe place for smoking materials, should someone violate the no-smoking rule. This ensures a safe disposal location for cigarettes or other smoking materials, reducing fire hazards and potential safety issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashtrays remain on airplanes, even with smoking bans, primarily because of safety and legal requirements. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mandates their presence near lavatories, not because of current smoking policies, but to provide a designated and safe place for smoking materials, should someone violate the no-smoking rule. This ensures a safe disposal location for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/why-is-this-still-a-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why is this still a thing?&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-53611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-shit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-dWH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53613,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53611\/revisions\/53613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}