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Mandatory anti-flatulence drug for airline passengers

reduce unpleasant digestive odors on airplanes
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Commercial air carriers should require passengers and crew to take Beano or some similar flatulence-reducing drug upon boarding the aircraft.
mrthingy, Jul 03 2001

It's a widespread problem, apparently. http://www.salon.co...t/2000/04/18/smell/
[angel, Jul 03 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]


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       Thanks for sparing the gory details, which I'm sure will be elaborated upon in gruesome detail shortly by our distinkuished colleagues.
thumbwax, Jul 03 2001
  

       An inevitable consequence of the reduction in air pressure. Don't think anti-flatulence drug would work. You'd probably have to pressurise airline cabins to ground pressure (they're currently pressurised to something like 10,000 ft) to stop it altogether.
goff, Jul 03 2001
  

       Perhaps the emergency oxygen masks could be brought into use should the cabin be subjected to any offensive mid-flight odours.
-alx, Jul 03 2001
  

       I guess the airlines could serve up food containing seaweed; perhaps also those strange high-carbon biscuits you see in health food shops.
Pallex, Jul 03 2001
  

       I believe there are patents extant for odor-absorbing seat cushions. No idea how well--or if--they work. Does Beano actually work? What is this seaweed idea? A discrete insert to filter out the smelly and replace it with rosy or lavendery, perhaps? Call it Toot Sweet.
Dog Ed, Jul 04 2001
  

       DogEd: If you add a bit of seaweed (Kombu apparantly works better than more common varieties, such as Nori (which is often used to wrap sushi)) to beans or other high fibre foods, it tends to reduce unwanted emissions!
Pallex, Jul 26 2001
  


 

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