Not long after the planes started landing, airport officials began receiving desperate pleas for help from many of the captains. A growing number of their passengers were climbing the cabin walls for a cigarette. Mentally these smokers had braced themselves for a six-hour transatlantic flight without any tobacco. But as their time on board the aircraft suddenly became indefinite and their stress levels skyrocketed as they tried to comprehend the severity of the situation that had brought them to Gander, the nicotine “jones” began to grip them something fierce. A few flight crews broke the
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