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.
And any furniture you moved showed you the original color of the wall and how the smoke had yellowed everything
In my town, there are mostly electric vehicles nowadays. I was out walking along a larger road in my neighborhood when I noticed a bus and two cars passing each other, and it suddenly hit me that earlier in my life, that would have been a very noisy affair, but it wasn't. I also realized how much the world used to smell like gas. And does anyone else remember the rainbow colored gas puddles you used to see and smell in parking lots? I don't remember the last time I saw any of those.
Then I realized there is a world where my kids can grow up outside of noise pollution, cigarette smoke and car fumes, and it made me a little more hopeful about the future.
What town do you live in that has more electric cars than gas powered? Doesn’t sound believable; but if it is, then that’s fuckin’ sick.
93.9% of new cars sold in Norway are EVs, a further 5% are hybrids.
I don't know what that translates to in terms of cars currently on the road though. But that's also stats for the whole country. You can imagine in a relatively affluent area where there are mostly new cars the vast majority of them are probably EVs.
Scandinavia, like that guy guessed, is right
I remember those puddles. You're right I haven't seen them in years.
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.
Probably not, but that is a separate thing from the proportion of drinks sold in the section being higher while it existed.
Per capita alcohol consumption peaked in the US between 1975-1985
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.
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 🫤
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.
it made for really great sports photography though
You're fucking with me, that was all cigarettes? I was growing up just after it was getting banned and winding down so I wasn't really around for the worst of it.
I mean cigars and pipes as well, but yeah
Not old enough for this, but growing up I 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?"
AIDS. So much AIDS. There's a famous photo from 2018 with the men in black representing the original members of the San Fransisco Gay Men's Choir lost to AIDS and men in white representing those who did not die to AIDS.
Fuck Reagan, and Fuck Trump for trying to make COVID that bad.
Cigarettes and lead fumes.
As a kid in the '80s, it was just the way some things smelled. Neither of my parents smoked by the time I was born, but lots of neighbors and others did. I later became a smoker and couldn't smell it anymore. When they finally banned smoking in Ohio, I quit and we learned what bars really smelled like (as I mentioned in a related thread: body odor, mold, and piss).
Edit 2: I worked at a fast food place in '95 or '96 and we had a smoking section, but also all the employees smoked in the tiny break area as well so it came from both sides. I would start smoking not long after this.
it's weird to think that there's bad and dangerous smells today that we don't even think about
Not just cigarettes. Old, stale cigarette smoke smell that seeped into every piece of fabric and carpet, staining everything. I think its one of the reasons brown and grey shades were so popular.
Most restaurants would have smoking sections right next to the none smoking sections, as if the smoke knew the rules.
Most restaurants would have smoking sections right next to the none smoking sections, as if the smoke knew the rules.
"Smoking or non-smoking"
'Non-smoking please'
* sits you right next to the smoking section *
'You could just tell me to go fuck myself.'
This is why I get nauseous when I am around smokers.
I remember living in a big city when the law was passed. The city hall hired cleaners to remove the smell. I can't confirm the whole building as it's absolutely massive but I do remember seeing the smallest areas being scrubbed. Out of every building in the area it turned out the absolute best. 1 mcdonalds ended up remodeling the whole place but the smell was still a little faint.
Lies. Some of it smelled like leaded car exhaust.
In the food court in 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 section. Don't get caught smoking at a blue table though, you'll get kicked out.
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!
Now the world smells like watermelon cotton candy.
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...
Go to a German Bundesliga match if you want to relive this part of the past.
Also, way fewer murders per dude nowadays. Tubular.
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.
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