This and waiting for Ronnie to end the world with the push of a button.
In the food court inn the mall the blue tables were non smoking and the gray were smoking. The thing is, they were all mixed in so essentially the whole food court was the smoking sense. Don’t get caught smoking at a blue table though, you’ll get kicked out.
Back when cigarette smoke extended only as far as your personal space.
People even smoked on the dancing floors in clubs at least in my city. Grinding there, pint in one hand, a ciggie in another.
Back in my childhood “it wasn’t me” was a legit excuse even when you completely smelled of cigarettes after having smoked some, because even non-smoker parents had a hard time telling with all the cigarette smell. Smelling clothes wouldn’t mean anything. Fingers, perhaps, if someone had just smoked.
I was in Vegas recently and made the mistake of cutting through the casino as a shortcut, the 80s came roaring back to my nose holes… so gross!
All my pals being ‘caught’ smoking cigs bc their parents had the sense of ‘smell’.
My parents would ask me about smoking whenever I came back from my neighbor’s house. I always thought it was a ridiculous question because I thought smoking was disgusting as a child. But, I guess the stank of the neighbor’s house would stick to me after being there for a few hours, and they were making sure I wasn’t puffing away. Good thing they didn’t know the smell of weed 🫤
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My town has a big billboard up that talks about how we can breathe easy because the town has banned smoking indoors.
The thing is, I’ve been here for over 10 years and that’s been true the whole time I’ve been here. It’s very odd.
i’d be willing to bet they just put it up, and then it either still have the rights to it, because lazy way to spend money on “social progress” or something, or they lost the rights to it, and literally nobody has bought the rights for it since then, so the old ad is still just kicking around up there.
It’s a recent thing. Which is part of the oddity.
huh, might be due to vaping then. Maybe they just didnt want to spend the money lmao.
Though to be fair, i do think the rates of people smoking is probably going up, now that we’re one or maybe two generations detached from regular smoking, it might start to swing back. Social norms are weird like that.
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My first job as a waiter had a smoking section. Was banned just a year later but imagine being forced to work in that condition.
The smoking section was coveted because smokers drank more, hence better tips.
I don’t think drinking slowed down one bit just because smoking was removed indoors.
Per capita alcohol consumption peaked in the US between 1975-1985
Probably not, but that is a separate thing from the proportion of drinks sold in the section being higher while it existed.
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I remember when I was a kid all the restaurants had ashtrays on the table. Even McDonalds and Burger King had little aluminum ashtrays on the tables. You could have your cheeseburgers with a side of secondhand smoke.
My flight was overbooked and the airline was giving 500$ to stay one more day. The only available seat on the next day flight was in the smoking section. It was one of the most uncomfortable flights I have ever had. I don’t know if the 500$ was worth all the second hand smoke I inhaled. The corridor was cloudy.
Ever get booked into a smoking hotel room? Just awful. Really hard to get to sleep.
Life is tough when you have to trade a price discount for a cancer chance premium.
I’m old and I remember people smoking on airplanes and in hospitals. An older nurse has told me she remembers staff smoking in the nurse’s station, and another older nurse told me she used to follow the pediatrician she worked with around the hospital trying to catch his ashes in an ashtray while he rounded on sick children. My own parents used to make us ride in the car with the windows rolled up smoking like fiends.
Oh man, I remember the first time I was in a hospital to visit someone as a kid and going down to the cafeteria and seeing doctors and nurses down there smoking. It was weird to me even then.
Patients these days vape in their hospital beds!
Seriously? That’s allowed?
It depends. Might be against hospital policy, but it also depends on the circumstances and staff that catch you.
Get caught vaping nicotine after surgery while on oxygen and an RN catches you? Problem.
Get caught vaping THC, not on oxygen on oncology/hospice? Depends on the staff whether they’ll notice it or not.
No, they just do it when nobody is looking.
The library my wife runs has detectors in the bathroom that let them know if someone is vaping in there, so hospitals might too these days.
They don’t. Source-worked in hundreds of hospitals.
Funny. You would think if a library does it, hospitals would. But then I guess most hospitals are run by corporations that don’t want to spend any more money than they absolutely have to.
Those things don’t work.
Source: vaped in damn near every bathroom I’ve used for the last 13ish years.
They work in my wife’s library because she’s told me about it.
I wouldn’t use anything that I have to breath out into a hospital room but I will say I bring my off brand zyn when I get put in for more than a night. All my local will give you is a 2mg nicorette every 2 hours and you have to ask each time. It’s absolutely torture to be withdrawing in a hospital.
Some hospitals will give you nicotine inhalers which help much more.
GOOD. TO. FUCKING. KNOW! I have something super wrong with my gut and end up in there for days at a time a few tiya year lately. Sucks.
And any furniture you moved showed you the original color of the wall and how the smoke had yellowed everything
Cigarettes and lead fumes.
And people don’t understand why there are so many MAGA folks.
My entire generation is filled with people who have never read a book since high school. It used to baffle the hell out of me, and then I learned about how bad the lead saturation in our environment really was back then. It’s a miracle I know how to spell my own name TBH.
The '80s? Is my memory fucked? There was no smoking in schools, libraries, cafeterias, doctor’s offices, hospitals, courts, by the '80s. At least the later eighties. This dude is talking about like 50’s and 60’s maybe. When literally everyone smoked everywhere all the time. Nicotine must have seemed amazing if you conceal and deny its side effects. I probably would have smoked all the time too.
Yes. Your memory is fucked.
There was still smoking in bars in L.A. when I moved there in the 2000s. When I was in high school in the 90s, there was a smoking area for high schoolers until 1993 or so. Smoking wasn’t entirely banned on domestic flights until 2000 (although it was mostly banned in 1990).
I suppose. I looked at some bar graphs and plots and adult smoking was going down but did really start dropping off in the late nineties, so that tracks with your experience and memory.
And most people were nose blind to the smell.
I was in the 1990s, but I smoked by then. I could definitely notice in the 1980s if we sat too close to the smoking section. If there was a smoking section.
Go to a German Bundesliga match if you want to relive this part of the past.
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Not old enough for this, but growing up o had a friend with parents who were heavy smokers. It made a weird relationship in my brain that cigarette smell is related to friends, so for years everytime I smelled a cigarette it would give me some weird nostalgia.
Eventually I tried 1 cigarette and it made me sick lol
My message to people thinking about trying smoking:
If you try a cigarette and you don’t like it, it’s a shitty experience. If you try a cigarette and do like it, that’s much worse.
There’s no upside.
And, for friends who currently smoke, the best line of attack I’ve found is: “You really like giving awful companies like Philip Morris your hard-earned money?”
Yeah I never noticed the smell of smoke until myn parents quit when I was a teenager. And then stopped noticing it again when I started smoking. And then started noticing it again when I stopped.
Same
And now it smells like weed.
Most restaurants and airplanes, not so much. Which, even as a cannabis user, I appreciate.
I just had an involuntary flashback of a host at a restaurant asking if we would like smoking or non smoking. It didn’t really matter since the whole place smelled like smoke…
