I remember being in the hospital emergency room with parents during the mid 70’s and the doctor lit one up right there. My parents later talked about how inappropriate it was. That was the first time I heard talk of it being bad. Everyone smoked everywhere all the time
Remember when planes and hospitals had smoking sections? (Probably a lot of you do not).
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Hikermick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Gerudo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I mean at one point Olympic athletes were spokesmen for cigarettes cause they thought it opened your lungs.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Go watch some of the WSM competitions, they’ll lift mass amounts of weight, then immediately get interviewed and will be dragging down a cig.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I know an older nurse whose job it was to follow a pediatrician around the children’s hospital and try and catch his ashes in an ashtray while he rounded on his patients.
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I do, but. Pack of cigarettes wasn’t $12 back then…
mkwt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can’t imagine trying to put $12 in quarters into that machine.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Takes 8 at a time… Christ.
Ka chunk.
Click click click click click click click click
Ka chunk…
mihnt@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
My “step-dad” used to sit as close as he could to the smoking section in restaurants and would try to fight anyone that lit up.
Childhood was fun.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
dingus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I was only a kid when we still had smoking vs non smoking sections, but I remember how odd I thought it was back then.
The pungent smell of smoke permeated the air throughout the entire restaurant. Usually there was not even a door separating smoking from non smoking. Idk what they were hoping to accomplish.
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s like having a pissing and no pissing side in a pool.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Complying with an under-specified law
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That does sound fun!
mihnt@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Lovely fun trauma, yay.
DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I took a smoking flight once. It totally reeked. Even as a smoker it was unpleasant. I also smoked in my hospital room after an appendectomy, which in hindsight seems absolutely nuts.
I quit 12 years ago after trying dozens of times. I credit e-cigs with helping me finally wean off of tobacco.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good for you for quitting, that’s hard.
I know an older nurse who used to have to follow a pediatrician around the children’s hospital with an ashtray trying to catch his ashes while he rounded on patients.
foenix@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Just wrapping up a trip to China… I kept telling my partner how much every restaurant smelled like the 80s. So glad it’s not like this any more in the States.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh wow. That must have been awful.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember when Camel’s, Marlboro’s, and Newports were $0.60 a pack
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Aww I love meeting fellow older people on Lemmy.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I think the world is better off with the decline of tobacco but I used to spend time in East Germany and they used to have cigarette machines right on the street. My Oma would send me down with 5 marks to pick her up a pack.
Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They still exist. In the North not so much, but in Bavaria you’ll find them in every corner.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think smoking rooms in hotels are still a thing, but they’re certainly less common than they were. My mother and I got stuck in a smoking room despite booking a non-smoking room well in advance and it was awful. Stayed just one night and our clothes smelled like cigarette smoke for the rest of the trip.
I don’t really care if people smoke, but gosh, ya’ll need ventilation.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hmm I wonder where.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
lol when they did, a pack didn’t cost $12.00
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This looks like a cig vending machine that’s still in use today.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Remember when they didn’t have smoking sections, you were allowed to smoke anywhere?
Poop@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Where I live they don’t even have smoking sections, if you want to smoke you have to go outside and away from doors and windows.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I think that’s common now. It’s at least the same where I live.
But way back you could smoke anywhere in a restaurant, etc. even on planes, at one point.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure do. It was wild.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I quit smoking when Marlboros went over $2/pack lol. Airports had these awful rooms where all the smokers would cram in and hotbox. Other countries are still like it used to be here in the US. Japan comes to mind as one such bad example. If you ask for a non-smoking table in a restaurant, they just sit you at any random table and put a little “no smoking” sign on it!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Japan’s changed in the last few years. Chain restaurants there’s a separate air tight smoking room or you can’t smoke indoors at all. Local places might allow it but I feel like I don’t see it much even then. The only places left that have it seem to be bars or izakayas.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
That’s cool. I went in 2017.
Marighost@lemm.ee 4 months ago
In early high school (15~ years ago), I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to a local restaurant that still had one of the only smoking sections left in the city. All of her family smoked, and I couldn’t even enjoy my meal because my senses were overloaded by cigarettes. It was horrible and I’m so thankful we removed smoking indoors in the states.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember being at a Legion fish fry once years ago and you could still smoke in there after it was banned everywhere else. Fish and smoke do not mix well.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I got to bar age after most cities in my area passed non-smoking bylaws for bars and restaurants, but lived for a bit in one city that didn’t yet have a ban. I smoked at the time. I remember thinking that while it was nice to be able to just have a smoke while chilling on a couch with friends and a drink, the air quality sucked overall and I was glad to see the ban eventually go through there, too.
A while later, I stopped smoking in my car. If I wanted a smoke, I’d park somewhere and do it outside. For places I lived, if it already had people smoking indoors, I’d just do that, but otherwise I’d smoke outside because the clean air was nicer (both while smoking outside and when I returned to the inside).
So even as a smoker, the convenience wasn’t worth it to me, unless the air quality was already bad.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When I was little, I asked my parents why they don’t smoke and they just laughed. I didn’t understand why. Because 100% of the other adults I knew were smokers.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 months ago
casinos dont allow smoking anymore (at least the ones ive been) and the smoking room they had was so small and pathetic and had no ventilation at all it was terrible
not that i went there to smoke or gamble i just wanted to check it out. it was horrible
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes they don’t have it here either.
Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
My favorite store in the mall was next to the donut shop and I used to have to hold my breath as I passed because it was so smokey.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember when the donut shops were full of smoking teens in the 80s and the boys would whistle at me. Good times that smelled bad.
fitjazz@lemmyf.uk 4 months ago
Airplanes even had ashtrays with little flip up lids in the armrests.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember!
mrspaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I work in an office that was built in 1980. There are built-in ashtray slots in the restrooms. They’ve all been glued shut now, but it’s very obvious what they are.
There’s a main atrium in the building surrounded by the wings of space for cubicles. I can only imagine the smoke cloud that must have hung in the air back in the day!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 months ago
I remember when the Denny’s not far from my apartment had one of these vending machines.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Denny’s should’ve been able to grandfather in their smoking sections for the night shift. It’s not like you went to that place to taste your food anyway.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I remember McDonald’s having those goofy little aluminum ash trays.
match@pawb.social 4 months ago
clearly the tobacco industry didn’t lobby hard enough
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 4 months ago
sirico@feddit.uk 4 months ago
The packs cost more and you got less in them so a 20 pack would have 17
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They didn’t cost $12
nifty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
German airports still do, have smoking rooms in fact
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow! But a lot of Germans smoke right? And in restaurants too?
altasshet@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
It’s been a few years, but last time I was there, (some) bars in Berlin still has large smoking sections.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 4 months ago
Thank fuck this is no longer the case – the “non-smoking” sections were usually just 2nd hand smoke sections
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
When every restaurant and bar you went into reeked of stale cigarette smoke. Yuck.