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re: Old People: How widespread was public smoking in the 50s, 60s, and 70s?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:14 pm to RogerTheShrubber
My high school had a smoking area for the students. You were supposed to have a pass from your parents but they never enforced it.
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Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:19 pm to rmnldr
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everyone smoked
could probably count on one hand the number of people over 15 i knew that didn't smoke.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:24 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Growing up in the 70s I think Church was the only place where smoking wasn't acceptable.
In the early 80s tobacco companies would set up tables on campus in front of the student union at the beginning of the school year. Give you free packs of smokes to get you hooked.
In the early 80s tobacco companies would set up tables on campus in front of the student union at the beginning of the school year. Give you free packs of smokes to get you hooked.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:26 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Widespread probably explains why millenials are what they are
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:26 pm to 14&Counting
quote:
My high school had a smoking area for the students. You were supposed to have a pass from your parents but they never enforced it.
My high school still allowed smoking in the mid 90s. You could get a smoke pass to go smoke during class. It was one of those 3 hour a day, work at your own pace schools for frick ups though.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:28 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Some schools had smoking poles or smoking trees, where students who smoked would gather.
We had a "bull pen" at BRHS. It was the bleachers next to the track. You had to pass a hazing ritual to make use of it, usually a belt line or pushing a penny with your nose on concrete. We used to sit in the bull pen during lunch and make fun of Coach Garland's gym class.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:35 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
It was considered extremely glamorous to smoke. Everybody who was anybody smoked. It was a lot more cooler of a time. It sucks that they're bad for you because honestly I think it's cool to smoke. It triggers lateral thinking, keeps you thin, independent, and is just plain cool looking.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:35 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I remember having a smoking area at my high school my freshman and sophomore years in the mid 80s. I didn't start smoking until I was 21 (finally quit a year and half ago), so I never utilized it.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:39 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Smoked errywhere.
It was disgusting.
It was disgusting.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:39 pm to OldTigahFot
quote:
We had a "bull pen" at BRHS. It was the bleachers next to the track. You had to pass a hazing ritual to make use of it, usually a belt line or pushing a penny with your nose on concrete. We used to sit in the bull pen during lunch and make fun of Coach Garland's gym class.
I don't remember a bull pen but I do remember Coach Garland.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:41 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
I started smoking when I got orders to Nam (1967). Yup, you got 4 cigarettes in a pack of C-rations. I'd say 80-90% of people smoked. Probably 98% of servicemen in Viet Nam. Only time we couldn't smoke was on an ambush. Working in an internal medicine clinic, in the Navy, I remember walking into a a doctor's office while he was talking to a patient. He was giving the patient hell and told him " You've got to stop smoking for your health!" The patient walked out the door and the doctor opened a desk draw and pulled out a pack of Salem's and lit one up.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:49 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Last time I was in Madrid people still smoked in the airport, not a designated area, just light up wherever you feel like it. That was 2004.
Hell you could smoke in tiger stadium not that long ago. Then it changed to just the ramps, now you can't at all.
Hell you could smoke in tiger stadium not that long ago. Then it changed to just the ramps, now you can't at all.
This post was edited on 8/14/16 at 9:51 pm
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:56 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
As a 10 -11 year old, I could ride my bike down to the 7-11 and buy mom a carton of Benson & Hedges menthol 100's .....I'm 46 BTW.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 9:58 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
BRHS has a bull pit for kids to smoke at back in the day.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:01 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
First of all, frick You for "Old People." Second, frick You for disrespecting people that paved the way for pieces of shite like you to have the right to run your mouth with your Leftist bullshite.
You wouldn't have made it out of the 60's or 70's, btw.
You wouldn't have made it out of the 60's or 70's, btw.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:02 pm to foshizzle
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foshizzle
This was mid to late 60's.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:03 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Who gives a frick
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:06 pm to TigerBait2008
Back in the 70s I got my smokes from the vending machines in the breezeway of a local bar, or I'd go to the pac a sack and tell them it was for my dad.
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:07 pm to Mike da Tigah
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pac a sack
Did you pick up some of those five-for-a-dollar bbq beef sammiches while you were there ?
Posted on 8/14/16 at 10:08 pm to Hugo Stiglitz
Not the same era as the OP but we use to buy cigarettes underage at the George's highland rd cig vending machines.
I was surprised when I went to a bar at north gate after a wedding at Lod Cook that you can still smoke in bars in BR.
I was surprised when I went to a bar at north gate after a wedding at Lod Cook that you can still smoke in bars in BR.
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