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God. Everything smelled terrible but we smokers couldn't smell shit. The worst part about quitting for me was that the smell of cigarette smoke was the smell of home, of my mom's Merit Menthol 100s. I managed somehow.

Yes, after a night out clothes reeked of stale smoke

Everyone last their sense of smell because of the smoking. The problem is the solution.

So weird, I was thinking this while making my coffee. It was being discussed on a Fallout podcast . A character was smoking indoors, in bed, in one of the flashbacks. The host was appauled. When I lose hope for meaningful progressive social change I, a child of the 70s, think about indoor smoking.

That political will is the key. Focused & determined & persistent. See, e.g., MADD.

Thankfully, the show is now in the past and we can move on.

Yup

Don’t forget that they told us it would be the end of restaurants, bars, and airlines if we banned smoking indoors.

We smoked in high school and on airplanes. Most TV shows had cigarette commercials. There were ashtrays in the waiting room at the doctor's office. Addictive amphetamines (speed) were widely prescribed for weight loss. There were no seatbelts in cars that got less than 10 miles per gallon. #History

I miss smoking, especially now when I put on the news. They use to have ashtrays in movie theaters. Imagine that. My neighbor sent me to the store to buy hers, I was in the first grade. 35 cents a pack.

true. I am still very pro-genAI though and I am basically certain we are never rolling back on any of that

The stewardesses would place wet towels over the air intakes in the plane to catch some of the particulates. The paper would turn black by end of flight.

Given that smell triggers severe anxiety in me, yeah it lingers in apartment carpet and walls. I can walk into a apparment who’s current tenants never smoked and still tell someone smoked indoors.

CFCs - like the Y2K millennium bug - are also a good example of how, when people do come together & fix a thing people were worried about, you will still get people ignoring the fact that people came together & saying: x will never happen, look at all that panic over y & z, & that never happened...

The one time I went to a casino, I had to wash my clothes twice to get the smell out. Never went to another one because it was too hard to breath in there. Hazy like a brush fire at the base.

Yes! I had really long hair and it stank of smoke after hitting the bars.

I first experienced the last day of smoking in bars in San Francisco, and then again much later at “The Haunch of Venison” in Salisbury, UK. The Brits were pretty stroppy about it.

Smoking and loud typewriters with folks on the phone in an open office. The good ‘ol days! 😉

It was trippy visiting Europe for the 1st time a couple months ago & seeing so many people smoke. To see smoking lounges in airports, just bizarre to me now.

I appreciate the info. Perhaps they had not scrubbed enough the last time they painted, but it felt like the tar just came right through the paint. I hadn't thought about fire restoration companies, though!

Three out of those four things are scant on the ground now

Did someone tell them that it indeed stank like death?

How German of them…

Then Air Canada flight 797 happened and they still didn’t ban it!

At the club or the party in a too tight space with too many people, and a sweat smog formed...

Like I work in retail so I speak to a lot of people all the time and WOW can you smell heavy smokers. To the point I sometimes have to hold my breath. Or going out to a bar and people smoke and then YOU smell like it in those clothes until you wash them.

It did smell inside, but then it also smelled outside of smog and lead fumes so not a big transition.

Welcome to the #waroncars !

I once had someone tell me he developed nicotine withdrawal from a lack of secondhand smoke when one state banned smoking in bars. (I'm dismayed when I think about how much time he must have spent in bars for that to be the case, though.)

I remember the uproar when Bloomberg banned indoor smoking in NYC. It lasted 5 minutes. Then everyone quickly realized how great it was to come home from the bar and not need to take a Silkwood shower or burn your jeans.

The gay old time..

Her sisters did, and she did it at their homes. But no one ever did it at our house.

There's a good chance you can recreate this hell if you go to a casino! I worked in a tribal casino for a year (they allowed smoking) and not only did I have to start using an inhaler, but I'm pretty sure a co-worker got cancer. (Haven't had to use the inhaler since I left).

Fun reminder that potpourri used to be a lot more popular. 🌸🌹🌺🌼🎍💐

The first time that I went to a restaurant after our smoking ban, it was amazing. We could actually smell the food.

I remember going to the Bottom Line and being amazed that there was no cloud of smoke over the Podium (saw JJ Cale that night!)

Wait till we tell this person about the 1960s and 1970s.

Yes they did and yes it did. Airplanes were a hoot! Barrooms Dorms Holiday gatherings “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!” Watch any old Film Noir… then imagine how bad Lauren Bacall’s hair smelled.

See also: drunk driving. MADD did remarkable work.

I tried to revisit the show a few years ago and had the same response, even though I was a smoker until 1980. And, yes, we all stunk.

Yeh, it did.

I remember going to the clubs and bars in my twenties and coming home with my hair and clothes smelling like a stale ashtray (I didn’t smoke).

Smoking a cig in a bar would hit so incredibly hard right now. Yes, banning was a good thing, but on the other hand……fuuuuuuck it was awesome.

I remember when the bans started happening and everyone was losing their shit that bars and restaurants would close. 🙄

Hey now. I enjoy smoking

I used to hang my clothes outside to get rid of the smoke, and I'd often find a little circular burn in a sleeve of a jacket where someones cigarette had made contact.

2 years ago my municipality built an active transportation path across the bridge that joins my suburb to the small town where I work. Now I bike or walk the 5 kilometers to work. The fumes from the cars and especially the diesel truck are unbelievable. And you would never know if you only drove.

My dad once took me to a function when I was like 7, and I had to keep asking to go outside because it was so smoky my eyes were streaming. This was treated like I was overreacting

the actual reason is a german design law that prescribed office deviced "blend in" by having a neutral color, no bright white, no deep blacks. and since the ever neurotic germans (myself included) were the only people in the world to make a law about it, the manufacturers only made that color.

Of all the things that offend me about that show, this may be the least.

Yep you smelled like an ashtray

Northern Exposure.

Hanging your coat outside in the breeze when you got home at 3am to let the smoke air out overnight

I'd sleep on the couch to try to keep the smell from working it's way into my sheets and pillows.

Or undressing and leaving all your clothes on the outside balcony to air them overnight - and I never even smoked.

You had to wash those clothes in a separate load so the stink wouldn't end up on your non-bar stuff.

lol it was Bugsy's in Alexandria for me

I remember ashtrays and payphones at the hospital I cut my teeth at. In retrospect, it's crazy how close to payphone-removal ashtray removal was.

Everything did smell bad.

This whole thread is making me want a cigarette.

It was gross. I worked in Advertising and everyone smoked. And on airplanes they had a smoking section like that worked!

if you have been to vegas or live there, you will always know that familiar "cigarette stink" baked into the carpets even if they have banned smoking inside for a long time. circus circus casino just smells like stale cigarettes but im just used to it since i grew up around casinos

I used to work in a hangar full of interesting highly flammable chemicals and aircraft. The year I got there they put barriers in the break room to create a separate smoking area. Six years later they banned smoking inside.

I was in Germany recently and I was shocked that the airport had sponsored smoking places in the airport. Like you couldn't find something like that in the wild in the US and I cant believe Germany hadn't stomped out public smoking yet.

and it was not popular

every time i went home from a nightout, my outfit was a total writeoff until it got laundry. i had reserved pants, sweaters, jackets for the sole purpose of going out, knowing they will be unwearable the day after.

We smelled terrible and yes everyone said bars and restaurants would sink without smoking allowed. This could be a model for so much current day risk aversion.

I think it's just those older(ish) shows/movies have a sorta nostalgic appeal, so they're more prevalent

Doubtful, it's pretty standard to smoke while drinking to get both the alcohol buzz and nicotine buzz. drinking hasn't decreased nearly as much as smoking has either, and probably never will considering we've been getting drunk throughout most of humans history lol

Old movies aren't sepia because they're old, they're sepia because they're coated with tar and second-hand nicotine.

being asked by the hostess "smoking or non smoking". was such a joke. the whole fucking restaurant always smelled like smoke

they used to let Minuteman missile launch crews smoke. which isn't hazardous, there's no explosives or anything onsite, but I can't think of many worse places to smoke than half a shipping container 80 feet underground where 90% of the air is recirculated

Old timer at my 1986 college co-op at the FAA smoked CIGARS at his desk.

Yea right….soon the republicans will demand that we help children smoke and give them malt liquor before attending mandatory ebola parties. Need a strong volk!

I was listing 3 unrelated things. The 40k/year has nothing to with pot. It's simply how many people American drivers kill via car crashes every year. (They kill even more via air pollution.)

Also, the 40k number is even more fake because they count the accidents where the driver who wasn't even at fault tests positive for weed. And to make it EVEN MORE BOGUS, they also count when drivers fail a field sobriety test for weed. That number is being cooked up like crazy

I walk around town a lot and have to walk through a pot smoke cloud every ten minutes. I use cannabis too, but like have an edible dude.

NUE airport still has them

Last time I was in the Vegas airport they still had one

Evite will come after you using that word

You really see it in spy stories from The Cold War. These people are in much more danger from nicotine than from The Russians.

Scotland had its smoking ban before England & during that period I remember walking into a pub in the Lake District and practically reeling in the doorway. I’d forgotten how bloody awful it was despite having only had a few short smoke free months at home

IOW if there's a better alternative I'm all for making problematic products expensive & inconvenient by taxes & law if alternatives are made cheap & convenient by tax breaks & free use. I'd be up for it with e.g sugary foods, animal products, fossil fuels. But that didn't happen; still doesn't now.

The answer is yes, but the smoke killed our ability to smell.

Everything DID smell bad. I was there. Our house, my clothes & hair, the dog and cat. Everything.

Offices! The smoke would get everywhere.

This person's not wrong at all but the sheer innocence of "wouldn't everything smell bad?" is something else. Yeah, pretty much.

I grew up in the 60s too. We didn't all smoke, and non-smokers then thought smoking stank, but you smokers didn't care.

I once talked to a piano tuner who said that the strings on pianos in bars were all coated in brown crud from the smoke.

When I was 3 my city moved to having only smoking sections in restaurants. When I was 10 it was banned statewide. I still remember sitting in a bar/restaurant when little surrounded by smoke, and the wild change of moving to the ‘punishment box’ as my mom called it (she’s a smoker). It’s wild.

The non smoking section was just right next to the smoking section. The stains on everything is what grossed me out

See also: mask mandates, as discussed during the pandemic before and also after mask mandates that had high levels of adherence.

Normally not, but with RFK Jr in charge of public health, I wouldn’t be surprised if tobacco lobbyists are already preparing briefings for him on the “natural healing properties of tobacco”

The answer is yes OP. 💀

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Old enough to remember smoking sections *checks notes* ON AIRPLANES. #SMH

I showed my students Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) and they had a similar reaction

I remember going out and almost having an asthma attack. I definitely don't miss those days.

Yes and Yes. Try riding an airplane, or train with smoking so dense you could barely see the ceiling. Or at MSG back in the day the smoke was really bad if you had tickets in the balcony.