Smoking or non-smoking divided by a thin curtain.
Made no difference what part of the plane you were in 
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I don’t remember a curtain on smaller planes like BAC-111 etc it was just smoking in the back.
There must have been an arbitary line at a certain row.
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Indeed I don’t recall any curtains although there did seem to be a period where you actually had to walk to the very back of the plane to smoke. Before that, smoking in the seats was allowed but only in the section near the rear. Seems unthinkable now.
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Yep, I remember as a child being put on a plane to Spain to visit my grandparents. The air hostess moved me to the front so I wouldn’t be stuck with the smokers at the rear.
The was Iberia and probably 93 or 94
Al Italia to Melbourne had the smoking section in the middle of the plane in 1994. It was a nightmare journey as everyone seemed to sit in non-smoking and then saunter up to smoking for a fag every 5 minutes making it impossible to sleep.
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I remember the barbers I was taken to always in a thick fug of smoke. Bit like planes, the barbers chairs had built in ashtrays
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Ah yes, on the back of cinema seats, too.
What a deeply unpleasant World it was back then…
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A measure of the power & control ‘Big Tobacco’ once exerted. Nowadays it’s the oil companies working hard to keep us hooked while they still can, not least by continuously funding work to sow doubt & cause confusion re climate change.
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I remember the sister ship the Esso Northumbriabeing launched. It was just like that!
Dr John & his band at a photo session during the Bath Music Festival, June 24th, 1970
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Equally off their tits. Hindu Rajputs soldiers
1800’s
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The woman never takes a bad picture 
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Wounded Indian soldiers being tended to inside the Royal Pavilion, converted into a military hospital. Brighton, Sussex, 1918
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Robert Moog and Keith Emerson, 1973.
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Moog is the spit of David Gower (actually prob vice versa given their age)
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The Hindu and Sikhs who died in the hospital were cremated on the Downs outside Brighton
In 1921 the Chattri memorial was built on the site.
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