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Guardian · 56-60, M
Or when the doctor himself would smoke a pipe while advising you in his office, post examination?
beermeplease · M
@Guardian lol...so true
bijouxbroussard · F
@Guardian I remember commercials selling the cigarettes "recommended by more doctors", too ! 🤨
Lilymoon · F
On an airplane! ✈️
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Lilymoon · F
@beermeplease good times 🤭
beermeplease · M
@Lilymoon great place to pick up the "chicks" too 🤭
Kellycares · 51-55, F
@Lilymoon Yes, “The good old days”! I can remember my first flight. I just turned 18 and was flying to Scottsdale to visit my grandparents. I had started smoking cigarettes regularly about a month before. So, I booked a seat in the “smoking section”. I can remember my anticipation for the “no smoking light” to go off after our flight took off. I wasn’t the first passenger to light up, but close to it. I felt so ”mature”. It was also relaxing. Not that way anymore.
1olderguy20 · 61-69, M
I can remember smoking on airplanes
beermeplease · M
@1olderguy20 when flying was glamorous or luxurious...even in coach where you got free booze and good food.
@beermeplease My buddy from NorCal recently took a flight from San Francisco to Florida, each can of warm Natty Light was almost $10.
beermeplease · M
@NativePortlander1970 lol....when me and 2 friends (husband and wife) were flying home from mexico we had to catch a connecting flight from los angeles. when we checked in we noticed all 3 of our seats were not going to be together...they bumped me and my buddies wife to the vip, or prime seats close to the front. it wasn't really business class for that type of aircraft but close....we got everything free while hubby was left back in coach...he was so pissed off 🤣
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Another memory has surfaced....
When I was a boy (1950s-60s) you could buy boxes of chocolates shaped like smoking materials. Pipes, ashtrays, moulded in chocolate; even model cigarettes made from white fondant with a red tip (no filter...). They were clearly aimed at children and often bought for them by their parents or other relatives, at Christmas!
I don't know if they were eventually banned by law or if the manufacturers realised this was bad; but these sweets ceased to be made long before limits on real smoking started to be created.
When I was a boy (1950s-60s) you could buy boxes of chocolates shaped like smoking materials. Pipes, ashtrays, moulded in chocolate; even model cigarettes made from white fondant with a red tip (no filter...). They were clearly aimed at children and often bought for them by their parents or other relatives, at Christmas!
I don't know if they were eventually banned by law or if the manufacturers realised this was bad; but these sweets ceased to be made long before limits on real smoking started to be created.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@beermeplease Well, a different brand and called "sweets" Over Here in the UK, but yes, much the same thing.
I think they disappeared around the time the dangers of smoking were beginning to be widely published.
My Dad smoked, mostly cigarettes but he also tried a pipe, and once admitted he wished he'd never started; but his generation thought it normal or even somehow beneficial.
I think they disappeared around the time the dangers of smoking were beginning to be widely published.
My Dad smoked, mostly cigarettes but he also tried a pipe, and once admitted he wished he'd never started; but his generation thought it normal or even somehow beneficial.
beermeplease · M
@ArishMell my dad never really smoked much other than the odd cigar when he was out at the pub. my mother on the other hand wished she never started i'm sure. she suffered a horrible death...copd, clogged blood vessels , amputations and then death.....i swear, if a smoker were to have paid her a visit during her final days they would have left the room crying and feeling sick to their stomachs....they would have given serious thoughts of quitting
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@beermeplease Awful way to go. I am sorry. It was bone cancer that took my Dad, and though he managed to stop smoking as that took hold, I sometimes wonder how much years of tobacco and tar influenced the disease.
Cigarette and tobacco packets in the UK have had to carry big health warnings and gruesome photographs of organs wrecked by smoking, for some years now, but whether they deter many people is an open question.
Nicotine's powerfully addictive characteristic is now exploited by the e-cigarette makers creating high-strength products in flavours and packaging intended to attract people, especially teenagers, who would never have taken up tobacco. There are, I believe, already signs that these will present health dangers of their own, exacerbated by the less scrupulous makers selling sub-standard versions whose impurities are themselves toxic.
Those attacking moves to wipe out smoking - tobacco or vapour - are sometimes accused of being anti-libertarian, but you not free if you are an addict.
In an ironical twist to this thread, some of those nicotine products sold by dodgy internet dealers are even disguised as sweets, to try to smuggle them past watchful parents or teachers so as to trap children into addiction.
Cigarette and tobacco packets in the UK have had to carry big health warnings and gruesome photographs of organs wrecked by smoking, for some years now, but whether they deter many people is an open question.
Nicotine's powerfully addictive characteristic is now exploited by the e-cigarette makers creating high-strength products in flavours and packaging intended to attract people, especially teenagers, who would never have taken up tobacco. There are, I believe, already signs that these will present health dangers of their own, exacerbated by the less scrupulous makers selling sub-standard versions whose impurities are themselves toxic.
Those attacking moves to wipe out smoking - tobacco or vapour - are sometimes accused of being anti-libertarian, but you not free if you are an addict.
In an ironical twist to this thread, some of those nicotine products sold by dodgy internet dealers are even disguised as sweets, to try to smuggle them past watchful parents or teachers so as to trap children into addiction.
Iwillwait · M
Ah yes... The good ole days when smoking was a daily requirement for all interactions including but not limited to: doctor's office visits, corporate meetings, driving, flying, eating, fishing, running, basketball games, football games, tennis matches, courtroom, babysitting, tv watching, sleeping, loving, fighting, boxing matches, poker, school, surgery..y'name it, we smoked while doing it. 😂
beermeplease · M
@Iwillwait lol...back in my clubbing days i'd shower with a beer and a ciggy before i went out...yes, i found a way to smoke in the shower 🤣
Iwillwait · M
@beermeplease Of course. 😤
ArishMell · 70-79, M
The days of going home with your own hair and clothes stinking of others' stale baccy smoke...
They can still smoke but have to go outdoors, sometimes to designated areas.
My last employer even provided a small shelter, similar to a bus shelter, in the factory's rear yard for them!
They can still smoke but have to go outdoors, sometimes to designated areas.
My last employer even provided a small shelter, similar to a bus shelter, in the factory's rear yard for them!
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@bijouxbroussard I checked it out and here it's still allowed and apparently there are some strong opinions about it. I'm reading that in Austria they even lifted the restriction.
bijouxbroussard · F
@CrazyMusicLover That’s very interesting. I’m not sure what dictates those laws here or if they vary by state. California tends to err on the side of public health.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@bijouxbroussard They've been quiet about this topic for a long time here but I remember that the last time it was on the table, there were disputes about what actually is smoking and what kind of businesses would be subjects to the law. I remember that my favorite teahouses were concerned, as they offered waterpipes and by the law if they served also food, which they did, they would have to stop offering them. And that would be a huge problem. I think the bars that didn't offer any foods only drinks were supposed to be unaffected, but I'm not sure.
They also couldn't agree on vaping and details like that.
They also couldn't agree on vaping and details like that.
Elessar · 26-30, M
I'm glad it went away.
I mean, it would be tiring having to unload fire extinguishers on random people in order to be able to enjoy a meal
I mean, it would be tiring having to unload fire extinguishers on random people in order to be able to enjoy a meal
Starcrossed · 41-45, F
I remember when we could smoke in bars. *stares off wisfully*
I have a friend in Europe who happened to share a photo of him and some friends in a bar and I noticed they had cigarette packs on the table, I was just shocked. I kinda thought that it had gone away everywhere.
I have a friend in Europe who happened to share a photo of him and some friends in a bar and I noticed they had cigarette packs on the table, I was just shocked. I kinda thought that it had gone away everywhere.
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@Starcrossed I haven't been in a bar in a very long time but I almost can't imagine a bar without cigarette smoke. 😆 It's damn everywhere. Recently I was staying in a hotel that declared at every step how they were a non-smoking hotel and took pride in it and right the next day when I was going to breakfast, I could distinctly smell cigarette smoke in the hall.
Starcrossed · 41-45, F
@CrazyMusicLover to be honest I raaaarely smoke, but I did enjoy it on rare occasion in my younger days going out to the bar. I get why it's banned, but I do miss it a tiny bit.
HumanEarth · 56-60, F
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Yes, I remember that and I remember smoking in restaurants. Remember cigarette vending machines
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Adrift · 61-69, F
@HumanEarth thats how we got our cigarettes when we were kis.
nonsensiclesnail · F
I love that you cant anymore.
Everything stinks in totally different ways now. Its eye opening1
Everything stinks in totally different ways now. Its eye opening1
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SW-User
Or in bars and restaurants
beermeplease · M
@SW-User i think not allowing smoking killed our once thriving stripper bar scene
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SW-User
@beermeplease Isn't that the damn truth 😔
DrWatson · 70-79, M
My eyes are stinging just thinking about those days.
exexec · 61-69, C
I remember, and I'm glad those days are gone.
ThickMadame · 51-55, F
I remember
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Or on a plane
Azlotto · M
I do...And I also remember them Mcdonald's aluminum ashtrays.
@beermeplease The big mac is now $5.59 here, while the qp/cheese is $5.29. Seriously, the qp should cost more because it has more meat 🙄
@Azlotto But are they actually being bought. There's a common scam on auction sites, ebay being the worst, where sellers list a very outrageous price, however you'll also see that they have zero bids too. They tried this with beany babies, cabbage patch dolls, Disney black diamond cartoons, and many other items.
Azlotto · M
bijouxbroussard · F
I do. I remember working where people were smoking at their desks next to me. Now that we know what we know about second-hand smoke, we can’t go back to that. Prohibiting smoking wouldn’t work, but nonsmokers do have the right to be away from cigarette smoke.
DDonde · 31-35, M
I remember smoking sections in restaurants.
beermeplease · M
@DDonde yeah but what was the point? the difference between the closest non smoker to smoker was 2 feet....and if you were in non smoking section and 30 feet away it wouldn't have made any difference
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@beermeplease It used to work well in some restaurants here. At least in my favorite one where the smoker's room was on the first floor and non-smoker room underground. As far as I know, it's still not banned and I'm afraid that sections might not always be respected either. Especially in summer in outdoor restaurants.
basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M
There are still some pubs here that allow it.
Restaurants no. Unless it's a smoking lounge for cigars of course.
Restaurants no. Unless it's a smoking lounge for cigars of course.
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
Hahaha vaguely remember
We could smoke on the job at work at the non food factories.
beermeplease · M
@NativePortlander1970 i did all the time until 2008 until i quit