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Sounds like my wife's experience growing up with 2 parents who were smokers, in those 70s cars where only the little triangle-window in the back would open.

And on airplanes. I'm old enpugh.tp remember when you could. Every time I think of that I am horrified anew.

I came home from a year in France and CA had banned smoking in public while I was away. It was WILD. Even as a non-smoker I kinda felt like something had been lost, like a rough edge, at least in bars. Boy was it worth it! Good call public health advocates!

I hadn’t realized how widespread this was even here in Mexico. I had pretty much assumed that people were just not smoking anymore. Turns out there are still plenty of smokers in Europe, though it’s far from being the smoke filled world of the 80s.

I went to Vegas for the first time a few years ago and people smoked everywhere, it was like the 80s. Left after one night. There are beautiful state & national parks surrounding it, though.

Yes -I still can’t believe I used to smoke at the back in the looong flights from Hong Kong to London via Abu Dhabi.

I actually don't mind smelling like a bonfire but there's something so revolting about smelling like cigarette smoke, at least for me.

Anti-seat belt activists were the 2A cranks of my childhood.

True! And for some trivia I heard, right or wrong, that cannabis and skunks share a common foul molecule.

I hated the cigarettes flavour in Tim Hortons donuts that were on the rack for a few hours.

Always my anti-nostalgia go-to.

Let no public ashtray be empty was the motto of the day.

I remember SMOKING ON PLANES. Seems science fictional.

Where I work there was a designated smoking room. Years later, after the smoking ban, they removed a partition wall between that room and the one next door and everyone noticed that they hadn't used different coloured ceiling tiles, they were just stained from smoke!

Yeah! my social life improved dramatically when smoking wasn't allowed indoors especially

I used to smoke when the ban happened. I didn’t like it. I haven’t smoked for years. Ours probably related and I’m thankful for it. I really enjoy smoking, but you can’t give up that much health and money for a cheap rush.

Britain too. Nobody would ever go to a pub again... get on a train... fly. Utterly ridiculous. Just old enough to remember civil liberties arguments for not introducing seatbelts or banning drink driving. You'd think politicians would learn from history how to face this stuff down.

To. This. Day.

I hardly ever went to a bar when smoking was allowed. After the laws passed in my state, I went out 3 times a week for about 6 months, just so they couldn't say it caused a loss of revenue.

Problem is the politicians *are themselves* cranks now, so they look after their people. We've had a perpetual race to the bottom for 20 yrs because it doesn't matter who's in office, their sole job is to take checks from billionaires and corps, then create the laws they want, often word-for-word.

Now they weaponize them

In Minnesota the first thing outlawed was smoking cigars in elevators. The howling and whining was funny to see. They gradually reduced the number of places any smoking was allowed but it took from the late 60s to the late 90s to outlaw smoking in the office building I worked in.

People were loudly proclaiming that the ban on smoking was going to drive restaurants and bars out of business

Oooooh they did. My mom,an extreme progressive, was outraged when indoor smoking was banned, and ballistic when OUTDOOR smoking was banned in her city (when anywhere but private property where the owner okayed it). But now she's happily smoke-free for almost ten healthy years.

There are many bars in/around Pittsburgh that are exempted from the smoking ban. I lived near a some places that looked like they were burning down There’s a weird rule about serving food at these joints, I can’t remember. The Apple Inn on West Liberty near Potomac sticks out, it was hard to see

And wearing seatbelts!

Oh I remember that. My dad was also incensed about smoking bans. And he was a doctor.

I'm pretty sure that drunk driving was illegal even in 70s/80s ... you could drink a beer while driving, but if you were over the limit, you were cooked. This being said, open container laws while not driving are stupid and lead to idiocy like people being fined for having a beer on their own porch.

I'd rather not be a Camel Man

It was bad times

Animals!

Such an improvement. Came in in the UK on our wedding day - the Great present! It's now unusual to actually smell ciggie smoke in the street, thank god

I remember smoking at work.

And around the time they started going outside to smoke, people in my area also started asking if they should take their shoes off indoors. Maybe everyone realized that it’s the nice thing to do to respect other people’s homes.

I don't know if I'd have ever quit smoking if society, pushed by laws, hadn't made it so incredibly inconvenient and so loathed. I am, daily, grateful that it did.