who remembers the old days where one could smoke in the waiting room at the doctor's office..
...or when grocery shopping...
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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.
beermeplease · M
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.
