i’m old enough to remember smoking sections on airplanes. Not to be dramatic but, I felt like I was going to die!
If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s.
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tacomama@leminal.space 1 year ago
thejoker954@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even as a smoker I hated indoor smoking.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Grew up in Asia. The less fancy one. Used to go buy my Dad cigarettes from across the street and toss out the filters when I was like 8 lol.
*He’s been smoke free for over 22 years. The amount of disinformation from Big tobacco, at least where I grew up, was insane. He is a very educated man and still… Cigarette was a status symbol, symbol of sophistication, when he was growing up.
Sternburgexport@feddit.org 1 year ago
Since my colleagues have missed the invention of Deodorant and washing themselves I’d beg to differ.
starbrite@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Despite never having touched a cigarette in my life, my mom smokes pretty heavily… Knowing i probably stink to everyone else really sucks ;-;
Akuji@leminal.space 1 year ago
I still remember when it was okay to smoke inside hospitals. Fun times…
When I quit, it took just a few weeks to recover my sense of smell, and I wish it didn’t because my house reeked of acrid smoke for months. Even my clean clothes smelt like unwashed smoked ass, it was sickening.Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
JPSound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I quite a pack a day habit 12 years ago and one of the first things I noticed when my sense of taste and smell returned was how aweful smokers smelled when they’d walk into a building after a cigarette. I had thought the smell was off me within maybe 10 minutes but I found out quick that the smell never really goes away. Feels like a previous life thinking I smoked because I can’t see myself ever smoking even a single cig for the rest of my life because it’s so revolting to me now. Oddly enough, however, sometimes I’ll see someone light up a fresh cig in a movie or something and I’ll get this strong 2-3 second craving for a smoke. It’s so strange how even over 12 years since my last one, I still get these strange urges for a cig by seeing someone of TV light one up.
Zementid@feddit.nl 1 year ago
In my Language there is a word for this, roughly translated into “Lung-Hunger”.
It’s not just the Nicotine.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Yeah I’ve got some herbal blend that I’ll roll up every now and again when my brother the smoker comes over, and I kind of get a pang like I’d also like one.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My aunt hasn’t smoked in 40 years and she says she still gets the odd random moment like that, and she was really just a social smoker, it wasn’t a heavy habit for her. It’s funny.
capital@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Born in early 90’s. We were still saying “non” to the first question that was asked entering a restaurant.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Try working in a restaurant. I worked as a server for awhile, right at the tail end of when they still had smoking and nonsmoking sections. It was awful.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I was born in the early 80s. Yes I remember a time when so many people smoked and indoor smoking was extremely common.
Even children’s places were ok for adults to smoke in. You know on how many arcade bars today they have cup holders bolted onto the machines for people to put their drinks (alcoholic or otherwise)? Back in the 80s and 90s, they had the same thing in many of those arcades… but they were bolted on ashtrays.
Zementid@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I recently sat in a flight with a Boeing so old it still had ashtrays.
I can’t even Imagine this…
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t get non-smoking signs in many places. Smoking bans have been around for so long that they almost feel redundant.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You’re probably talking about a plane so old it had ashtrays in the arm rests. Just as an interesting note, though, the FAA still requires ashtrays on new aircraft. Not in every seat, but they’re required to have one in each lavatory. They are also all required to have the no smoking signage as a constant reminder that there is absolutely no smoking.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember that too!
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Qm i in the wrong thread? I thought this was about smoking, not veganism.
GroundedGator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Best summer smell. The smell of quality cow flesh slowly cooking over an open flame is one of the best.
JPSound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh, piss off, dude. We get it. You don’t eat meat and you want to argue about it with strangers on a post that has nothing at all to do with the topic. Virtue signaling as a replacement for a personality.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When I went vegan I moved to a place where I have to pass a Burger King on the way home. That greasy tallow smell is so nasty every time I pass it.
remon@ani.social 1 year ago
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are not on fire. They are just boiling in their own fat. MMMMMMMmmmmmm, fat.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The smells haven’t gone away, you’re just acclimated now
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now they all smell like weed. I actually wish people who smoked weed were more attentive to how they stink, because it’s also very gross.
ximtor@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Living in Norway, it always strikes me how disgusting smoking still is, even outside, when i go to central europe. You get completely unused to the amount of smoke and stink e.g. outside of stores
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only ever smell it outside anymore, but I walk away fanning the air in front of my face. It’s so nasty.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can always tell the people who smoke in their cars.
Their cloths are saturated in it and they’re noseblind to it. I’m in Healthcare and you get off an elevator and can tell when the Caregiver who smokes was on the elevator before you.
NICE
Always am heavily cognizant since I smoke weed to not be like the ciggy cunts. Would want someone to tell me.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Well, now the streets just smell like weed instead.
ECB@feddit.org 1 year ago
Yeah weed easily smells at least as bad
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It’s been noticably bad after legalization. I don’t care if you enjoy weed, but you gotta admit there is a reason people compare its smell to skunks.
NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Nah, I almost enjoy that. Rolling tobacco is about tolerable. Actual cigarettes make me sick
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Dont worry americans if you want to smell smoke 24/7 just come to france or eastern europe.
Miaou@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Germany is worse than France ime.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Hmm ive been to a lot of european countries quite a few times and france seemed like the worst out of the high income/western ones. The worst is still hungary(where i grew up) where its absolutely horrible and we also have the highest rate of lung cancer. Smoking is literally a cancer to society. The best in terms of smoking is sweden where i live now, everyone uses snus which is better for both the users and bystanders because theres no smoke, its just a nicotine packet they put in their mouth.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 1 year ago
Switzerland is worse than Germany.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hit the ground in Germany, bombarded by smokers almost instantaneously.
NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 year ago
That surprises me, but noted !
konalt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I went to Italy last year and the outdoor seating of restaurants probably had a solid millimetre thick later of tobacco all over
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
My mother in law smokes, so a visit to her house always results in throwing whatever clothes we’ve taken directly into the washing machine when we get home.
Worse though, is that it takes a few days for the smell to leave my CPAP machine. I put a new filter in, but it still somehow lingers.
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I always thought I had bad indoor allergies until i moved out of my parents house. They have chain smoked inside with the windows closed for my whole life. Moving out was the best thing I ever did for my health.
I hate cigarettes now, especially since I quit smoking myself(didnt smoke inside though) I don’t even know why I started in the first place. I’m dumb I guess?
capital@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Straight up child abuse. Fuck…
Every once in a while I still spot someone smoking with kids in the car. That shit makes me irate.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
American casinos fucking reek
NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Went to one in Poland a few years ago, and was amazed - firstly - that you could smoke inside there. Second was how well it was handled: the entire ceiling seemed to be extractor fans - could barely see or smell smoke at all.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember coming home from shows in high school/college and I would have to shower and throw my clothes in the washer. I was so happy when smoking was finally banned in clubs.
Norgoroth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Noone could smell anything from smoking so much, the smoke stank paradox
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the 80s and 90s a cool ash tray was a good gift for literally anyone. Even teenagers since half of them were smoking reefer
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As a kid I liked the shitty little ashtrays they had in fast food restaurants. Like McDonald’s. I think they were aluminum and meant to be pretty much disposable. You could play with them like flying saucers. Or a shield for your GI Joe guys. Or if your GI Joe guys were going on vacation in the snow. They were maluable so you could shape them.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Before that, every place had these massive brown glass ashtrays.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s true! Making clay ashtrays for your parents in art class was a thing.
NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 year ago
My mum kept the triangular one I made her for over 20 years. Still quite proud of it.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I grew up in a house with smokers, picked it up as a teenager and smoked a pack a day for 20 years after that. Now I can smell someone lighting up 2 blocks away.
It’s kind of crazy. As time passed without smoking, I noticed many things smelled differently to me. For example, I was repulsed by the smell of cheddar cheese the first time I smelled it after quitting. I can’t put it into words properly but it smelled so different from what I was expecting that the thought of taking a bite made my stomach turn.
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 year ago
That’s interesting! My uninformed guess: since smoke is such a powerful smell, smoking constantly probably suppresses one‘s ability to smell other things - so after 20 years you’re probably accustomed to things smelling less strong and more smokey than they actually do. So I can see why smelling something very strong like cheese with your full sense of smell restored would be quite a shock!
Truffle@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
This was my experience too. Now I can’t stand the smell of cigarrettes at all.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wish I couldn’t stand the smell. It’s been a few years now but I still get regular cravings.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can also just take a trip to the Waffle House off I-95 in Florence, SC. It allowed smoking when I was there in 2014 and probably still does.
kofe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a small city in the Kansas City, Missouri metro (Raytown) that lobbied to keep it legal in restaurants and bars. I just looked it up, and apparently it’s fine to smoke weed as of 2023, too
kipo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
As if there weren’t already enough reasons to avoid Missouri.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well they literally get killed for asking.
Imhotep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even as a kid I always liked the smell
And the cold tobacco doesn’t bother me either
However there’s one tobacco smell I don’t like, when someone smoked a cigaret very fast before boarding the train/bus. It’s a very strong, musky smell
leadore@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At one of my first jobs in an office, everyone had an ashtray at their desk and there was always someone smoking at any given time throughout the day. Same with the breakroom. Sometime around then was when they started making people go to the breakroom to smoke, then a few years later it moved to having to go outside, which just meant walking through the cloud of smoke surrounding the door to get inside. Well, at least one thing has changed for the better since then. 😄
pahlimur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Altria, formerly Philip Morris, still allows smoking in their building as of a few years ago. It’s trippy to book a non-smoking room in the 2020s.
klemptor@startrek.website 1 year ago
Once in a great while, I have a brain fart and tell the restaurant host “two for non”.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s hilarious. Do they stare at you blankly?
klemptor@startrek.website 1 year ago
Yup!
joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Jokes on you. You also didn’t know how bad everyone smelled because you smelled just like them.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 year ago
clubbing became pretty smelly after the smoking bans i think it forced most decent clubs to upgrade their AC
299792458ms@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I have a old friend from school times and both of his parents smoked heavily making his freshly washed clothes smell like ashes. Every time he opened his sports bag in the changing rooms I could feel the smell meters away. Fortunately he never developed a smoking habit.
tipicaldik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
going to the grocery store and seeing an employee with a big dust-mop going up and down the aisles pushing along an ever-growing pile of cigarette butts because everyone would just drop 'em and step on 'em and keep on shopping…
urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
i Kind of like cigarette smell, its so wintery.