A businesswoman's desperate need for a cigarette on an eight hour flight from America resulted in her being arrested and handcuffed, after she was found lighting up in the toilet of a Boeing 747, not once but twice. Joan Norrish, aged 33, yesterday became the first person to be prosecuted under new laws for smoking on board a plane, when she was fined £440 at Uxbridge magistrates' court. «Outside the court, Ms Norrish commented on her fine. It all seems like an awful lot of fuss over just a couple of cigarettes.
' Ms Norrish is being encouraged to appeal against the fine by a pro smoking organisation who have offered her legal aid.
