Old People: How widespread was public smoking in the 50s, 60s, and 70s?

They smoked in the hospitals

I remember movie theaters having ashtrays in the 80s.

How old are you anyway?

Eta: you have no idea how nasty airplanes smelled.

Smoking is not bad for you.

I guess when literally everything smelled like smoke nothing ever really smelled like smoke when you think about it

I came up in the late 80s and 90s... seemed like that was around the time smoking was starting to get a bad stigma.

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How widespread was public smoking in the 50s, 60s, and 70s?

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Pretty common.

It's not like you die as soon as you start smoking

The effects of lifetime smoking get to you in your 50s and 60s.

Also, you know, if they're dead, you won't see them walking around smoking

Cigarette machines were everywhere. Marlboro sponsored a college contest where frats with the most Marlboro empty packs would win tv sets, stereos, etc.

My fraternity would pay the guy at the city dump for all the packs the Marlboro rep would bring for disposal. We would store them until the next year. Also, we won every year.

Could smoke in class in college and cigarettes were cheap to buy.

Those were the days.

Everyone smoked, very common to be burned by a cigarette as a child. It was rough but it made me tough.

Tough enough I beat stage 4 lung cancer in my 20's

You could smoke on planes in the early 90s I think.

We used to make ashtrays for our parents and grandparents in art class in the 80s...those were the days. You would be fired for that shite today.