Why there are ashtrays in planes since smoking is prohibited ?

Question

Why there are ashtrays in planes since smoking is prohibited ?

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Answer 1

* many planes have been in service since smoking was allowed, the US didn’t fully ban smoking until 2000, there are still planes from the 1970’s in service
* many countries didn’t fully ban smoking until much later (Cuba in 2014, China in 2017)
* government regulations often required ashtrays and did not change immediately
* if you do smoke illegally, as some people always will, they’d rather you not set something on fire with a surreptitiously disposed of cigarette