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re: Old People: How widespread was public smoking in the 50s, 60s, and 70s?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:46 pm to BabyTac
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:46 pm to BabyTac
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the 90s restaurants still allowed smoking. i worked at a fast food place in high school and everyone smoked freely inside. I remember riding in the car with my grandma in the 80s while she smoked with the windows up and it wasn't a big deal.
Yeah, in the 90s smoking was allowed in restaurants. Sometimes I still catch myself saying "non smoking please" to the host.
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Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:48 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Some schools had smoking poles or smoking trees, where students who smoked would gather.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:49 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Smoking was just about everywhere. I remember in the '70s in just about every establishment I walked into had someone people smoking except one that I can recall and that was Abdalla's department store.
Always had an ashtray on a table at a restaurant filled with cigarette butts and ashes, walk near an entrance and a wall of smoke is there to greet you.
ETA: Forgot about this but my grandpa had an ashtray pedestal like this one
Always had an ashtray on a table at a restaurant filled with cigarette butts and ashes, walk near an entrance and a wall of smoke is there to greet you.
ETA: Forgot about this but my grandpa had an ashtray pedestal like this one
This post was edited on 8/14/16 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:51 pm to rantfan
My Dad died in 2012 from throat cancer, he had the opening in his throat to talk through. I kept the fancy cigarette holder he had on his desk for years as a keepsake. So yes their was consequences from all the smoking.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:54 pm to ctiger69
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i worked at a fast food place in high school and everyone smoked freely inside
McDonalds had thick aluminum foil type ashtrays on all the tables
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:56 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
America was better when you could smoke cowboy killers on an airplane.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:57 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I have multiple memories of this: a card game that my dad hosted at our house with a stratified layer of cigarette smoke in the living room where it was being played, a flight to Europe in 1990 where the back of the plane was a cloud of cigarette smoke, coming back from a bar and smelling like cigarette smoke even though I didn't smoke.
It was everywhere, all the time. I maintain the belief that the reason for laws banning smoking in public places had nothing to do with the risk of cancer from second-hand smoke (other than the convenient excuse that it provided) and everything to do with the utter and complete lack of manners and consideration exhibited by those who smoked.
It was everywhere, all the time. I maintain the belief that the reason for laws banning smoking in public places had nothing to do with the risk of cancer from second-hand smoke (other than the convenient excuse that it provided) and everything to do with the utter and complete lack of manners and consideration exhibited by those who smoked.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:57 pm to OMLandshark
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It's honestly hard for me to comprehend that smoking was ever ok on an airplane. It just seems inconsiderate as frick to do it. That doesn't even get into the health concerns on it.
Another one looking for their safe zone.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:59 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Aren't you close to 40?
I may have you mixed up w/ Rummy...
I may have you mixed up w/ Rummy...
Posted on 8/14/16 at 8:59 pm to weadjust
Smoking ban went into effect in LA in 2007, most here should remember smoking in restaurants.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:02 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I remember going to breakfast at a Waffle House one morning.
I was the only one in the place not smoking. Even the kids were smoking.
I was the only one in the place not smoking. Even the kids were smoking.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:05 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Camels with no filters were the bomb
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:06 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I used to get paid to grab beer and cigs from the corner store when I was maybe 8.
That was mid 60's. The only person I remember that didn't smoke was my Mom.
That was mid 60's. The only person I remember that didn't smoke was my Mom.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:07 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
It was your constitutional right to smoke at work.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:07 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I was born in the mid-80's and remember cigarette vending machines in restaurants. Just something hard to even comprehend now.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:07 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
shite I remember every restaurant growing up until about 2002-04 you could smoke in it.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:09 pm to OMLandshark
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It's honestly hard for me to comprehend that smoking was ever ok on an airplane. It just seems inconsiderate as frick to do it. That doesn't even get into the health concerns on it.
There was actually a time when smoking was seen as a symbol of refinement and sophistication.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:09 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
The Flinstones in a Winston ad.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:10 pm to HubbaBubba
I bet 2 was a slizz with a big ol' bush.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:13 pm to N2cars
Closer to 30
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