Flashback: places people USED to smoke

[Insider]

city buses
elevators
taxis
airplanes
GROCERY STORES
movie theaters

times sure have changed...

where else?

[bluestateguy]

1. University classrooms

When my parents were in college in the 1960's people were allowed to light up cigaretts inside the lecture hall during class.

[Dookus]

12. I was allowed to smoke in a university classroom

in 1979. They changed the rule that year.

[Rowdyboy]

13. I was smoking in class in 1976 when I graduated.....

Worked with the public in a state job service office and didn't have to quit until 1989.

Finally gave it up altogether 2 years later.

[jpgray]

2. The friggin' TONIGHT SHOW (nt)

[GOPisEvil]

3. Offices...meaning AT YOUR DESK!

I see that in old movies and think about how things have changed.

[xray s]

4. Hospitals, doctor offices, funeral homes

[NightTrain]

5. You're right, times sure HAVE changed.

Thankfully!

[Dookus]

6. umm.... everywhere!

I remember my mother smoking in grocery stores and department stores.

I'm old enough to have smoked myself in movie theaters, airplanes, buses, etc.

Makes me think that if 2nd hand smoke is as bad as some people say, the entire population would've died out by the mid-60s

[Insider]

11. the grocery store prompted this thread

i remember when i was a cashier p/t, we used to have to start sweeping when things got slow. there were so many butts in those aisles it was NOT funny.

LOL you could just drop it and step on it, in the grocery store.

[Badger1]

7. My kitchen n/t

[proud patriot]

8. School ...In the eighties we were allowed to smoke on campus in H.S.

[bluestateguy]

14. My high school permitted smoking until 1985

A designated area for smokers was called "Cancer Cove". California is rabidly anti-smoking, and was the first to get rid of it in public places.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

19. We had a smoking area in my hs too

It was the early 80's. We always had to have a teacher on patrol. I remember one of the shop teachers was clueless about which was pot or a cigarette.

[maveric]

27. My High School had a smoking area too. Early 70's.

Kids were smoking and getting suspended(bounced), all too frequently, lowering the daily census. So in 1971 Salem HS, Salem NH, opened a smoking area for STUDENTS aged 14-18! It was opened all day long but we were encouraged to use it only between classes. Yeah Right!

[Westegg]

30. Mine did to. You had to get an OK letter from your parents!

[MAlibdem]

35. mine too...

it's called the bathroom...what a shit hole, the stalls don't even have doors, and there is racist and homophobic graffitti everywhere

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Us too. It was called "The smoking pavillion"

:hi: :eyes: They got rid of it in 1986

[Burma Jones]

37. Prison

Not that I was there.....

It's funny though, Texas prohibits smoking on Death Row.

[elperromagico]

9. And believe it or not, we used to sell humans!

[Melsky]

10. department stores

I worked in a dept store in the 80s, and people used to smoke in there.

[Imalittleteapot]

15. Congress?

I remember seeing clips of the Senators smoking at the McCarthy hearings?.

[elperromagico]

25. Yes. Our own (Arkansas') former Senator John McClellan is seen

smoking a cigarette in a great deal of the McCarthy footage.

[Westegg]

31. Yep, on Capitol Hilll...

Check out footage of the Watergate Hearings in '73/'74. Folks are smoking. Some dude has always got a pipe in hand, too!

[Insider]

16. church?

do i remember that correctly? big cathedrals? men in suits in the back?

i know they smoked in the basement after service

[Stephanie]

17. Bed

That was the best.

[Westegg]

32. That's so right! Bed!

Try smoking a cigarette in bed after sex THESE DAYS. She'll be all, "Uh, what are you doing?" I'll be all, "Uh, sex, orgasm, post-coital smoke? HELLO?" And then she's all, "Well, maybe if you'd gotten me off..." And so I'm like, "What? I didn't? Shit. Okay. Wanna go again?" And she's all, "Ferget it. I'm tired. Anyway, you can't smoke in the house." So I'm like, "What? I gotta go out on the porch?" And she's like, "You know what? Why don't you just go. I gotta get up in six hours." She's all tossing my shoes at me and shit? But secretly, I'm glad. Because I don't think I could've made it again.

[Stephanie]

33. LOL!

Don't hold anything back, Westegg! There's still a few things we don't know about you yet.

Any idea what the problem was? Size, duration, ineptitude? Or was she just an insatiable tramp? Do you think if you hadn't lit up she would have pretended to be satisfied?

[Westegg]

36. Is there any question? Clearly the gal was a lesbian!

It really confounds me, though, the way I'm always finding myself in bed with lesbians. I can't figure it.

I reckon I'd better puff another fag and think this'n through.

[DustMolecule]

20. Airplanes

*sigh* That hasn't really been gone THAT long, but it brings to mind the following OLD memory -

I remember when they first came out with the 747's that had the 'upper deck' - it was just one big bar/lounge. There were chairs grouped around a central "cocktail table" with a video game in it (was it Pong?). Anyway, you could meet/chat/(and smoke, of course) and just have some fun with your fellow passengers as you whiled away the hours to your destination. The "racier" types were members of the 'mile-high club' (for the record, I was not a member, but it wasn't because I wasn't 'invited' ;-) .

*sigh*sigh*and more sighing*

[Insider]

21. Sigh Master?

sleepy...must go to bed.

[BlueEyedSon]

22. Gas Stations.

:nuke:

[mykpart]

23. My obstetrician used to walk into

the exam room smoking a big black cigar!

[mitchum]

24. The VA Hospital...

in the rooms. Incredible.

[grannylib]

26. Mission Control in Houston for the moon landings and other space stuff

you used to see a lot of those guys smoking

[adriennel]

28. the coffee house

caffeine and nicotine belong together forever!

[trogdor]

29. New York kicked it cold turkey.

You can't even smoke in bars or bowling alleys anymore. The atmosphere in those places is downright surreal without the clouds of smoke everywhere - kind of like "ten forward". It just ain't the same anymore, and I don't smoke myself.

[LynneSin]

34. High School

I never smoked, but when I was in High School they allowed anyone over the age of 16 to get a 'Smoking Permit' and they could hang out at this one picnic table for their smoke breaks.

Plus all the teachers smoked in their Lounge which was nearby the classrooms.

[SoCalDem]

40. My first college class was spent teaching us to make paper ashtrays

Surprising..because no one ever started a fire..

[SoCalDem]

38. In Tahiti, they still do

even elevators have ashtrays.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

39. Ughh. Thanks for the reminder.

Yuck, everyone smelled like cigarettes at all times.

[Ladyhawk]

41. Cigarette smoke makes me feel ill.

Even smoke residue on items gives me splitting headaches. A smoker once crocheted me an afghan and I had to wash it several times before I could use it...oy!

I am so glad it isn't legal to smoke in public places in California.