re: How bad was flying when people could smoke on planes?

I remember a flight where my parents sent me out to California to stay a week with my grandmother when I was about 10 years old (around '90). This was the very end of smoking on planes and they had two different sections. They had some kind of program since I was flying alone so young were a flight attendant was supposed to be watching me. At some point I started wondering around the plane and figured out that the non smoking section that I was in was packed, but that the smoking section was half empty. I ended up finding a whole row that was empty in the smoking section and I laid down and went to sleep. The flight attendant ended up finding me asleep there. Good times.