Remember back when smoking was no longer allowed in public.

[Texaswitchy]

There were smoking and non-smoking places in restaurants.

Now smokers are forced outside.

As a nonsmoker I was glad.

The non vax crowd needs to go the same direction.

I remember being around a smoker and smelling like a smoker.

I truly do not understand the non vaxed types.

[Auggie]

1. Airplanes!

[Texaswitchy]

2. Planes must really been bad.

I remember being in Houston Astrodome as a kid and there would be a big ring of smoke high up.

A visible ring of smoke.

Buses were bad.

[Ms. Toad]

3. They were horrendous.

I almost got into a knock-down fight when I was placed in the non-smoking section immediately in front of the smoking section.

I pointed my fan, on high, just over the back of my seat to prevent the smoke from the smoker from reaching me (to the extent possible). When they asked me to move my fan, I refused unless they stopped smoking.

I believe they ultimately got the flight attendant. I don't recall whether I agreed to turn off or move my fan.

[Submariner]

8. In '67 the seat ash trays were too small

for any more that about 5 butts with filters before they were packed full.

But at least we could pack a loaded handgun in our pocket, and not have to suffer the inconvenience of having to check it in with the luggage. Smoking was good on planes back then, because the last thing you want is a passenger having a nicotine fit while packing heat.

[Chainfire]

13. Everybody was used to it. Smoke filled rooms were the norm.

The only time you would pay attention is if someone was smoking a stinking ass cigar. My wife and I recently watched the old Columbo TV series and it was interesting watching the smokers. Doctors smoking while treating patients at the hospitals, Columbo would smoke his cigar everywhere he went. Basically, everybody smoked all of the time. Just as I remember it from the 60s and 70s.

A hell of a lot of pre-boomers died from smoking, including my father, and father-in-law and probably about 30% of the other adults I knew.

[Texaswitchy]

16. My Grandfather did.

Most likely rolled his own cigarettes.

Watch old TV shows and movies it funny to see all the smoking.

[NurseJackie]

23. "Smoking or non-smoking?"

[Texaswitchy]

24. My oldest Granddaughter can't believe people smoked like that.

I tell her and she looks at me funny.

[NurseJackie]

32. I love old TV shows and movies... and even though it was appropriate for the time,

... it still strikes me as odd whenever I see the characters light-up in a restaurant, or in the board-room... or around children.

[Texaswitchy]

34. I know.

Just light up a cig any place , any time.

I wonder how people still smoke.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Click it or ticket!

And the thing is with the mandatory use of seatbelts, it doesn't protect anyone but the one buckled in! How's about the mandated speed limit?! Blue laws. Can someone explain why cars are not allowed to be sold on Sundays?!? There are SO many laws which were introduced to protect the public, and in the case of masks, it is nothing more than a temporary situation but these assholes act as if they are being made to herd into cattle cars (an analogy the grossly use) or as if the government is requiring them to surrender their first born.

It boils down to one thing...SELFISHNESS!

[Texaswitchy]

7. Pure selfishness.

It is just a piece of cloth.

[Xavier Breath]

5. Ah yes, the "good" old days.

I remember restaurants with one open room, yet divided into smoking and non-smoking sections, and all done with a straight face.

For a time I lived in an apartment with no washer/dryer hook-up, so I was forced to use the town's lone laundry mat. It opened at 7:00 AM, so I always had to be there at exactly that time so I could get as much of my laundry done as possible before the GD smokers showed up. If I was running behind I would sometimes find myself leaving with my clothes smelling worse than they did before I went in.

[Texaswitchy]

10. I never had the urge to smoke.

Never.

My Grandfather died from smoking.

Cancer.

1933.

My father said it was a horrible death.

No hospital, died at home.

[Xavier Breath]

11. I too have never smoked.

Not even as a 10 year old out behind grandpa's shed. Never appealed to me.

My parents both smoked until they became all religious, and, I have numerous relatives who did it as well. My early twenties were spent in smoke-filled bars, too. So, although I have never smoked, I've certainly been exposed to enough second hand smoke, at least into my twenties when I exited the bar scene.

[Texaswitchy]

12. I didn't do the bar scene very much until after the smoking band.

I had excess to free cigarettes when I little and still didn't smoke.

Ever see a smokers lung.

We had a field trip in school somewhere and we shown two lungs in big class jugs.

One was nice and pink and one was black.

We had to stand and look at them.

Smoker and nonsmokers lungs.

My brother died from smoking.

[Xavier Breath]

29. Sorry about your brother. If I had it to do over again

I would avoid those places like the plague. I don't know how I even managed to stay for more than a few minutes. My tolerance level has definitely lowered over the years. I hate being outside and even getting a whiff of smoke from a passing smoker.

[Texaswitchy]

30. Thank you.

He smoked since he was a teenager.

He at 72 or 73.

Messed up his heart.

[GoodRaisin]

6. Conference rooms were horrible.

I remember opening the door to go into an already packed meeting and gagging at the smoke escaping out the door into my face as I walked through.

[Texaswitchy]

9. In high school for some reason there was one rest room allowed for smokers.

The room was nothing but smoke.

The one time I went there I came out smelling like a cigarette.

[Treefrog]

17. My high school let them smoke in one outside area of our large campus.

The smokers were generally looked down upon if I remember correctly.

[Texaswitchy]

21. They did smell.

I have a friend who is a ex- smoker and didn't release how bad she smelled until she was around another smoker.

[Treefrog]

26. True.

I think most of us thought they were pretty damn stupid too. I’ve never understood the “allure.”

[Texaswitchy]

28. Me either.

I think they felt cool blowing out the smoke as teenagers and then got hooked.

[multigraincracker]

14. I quit hard drugs 30 years ago.

Took another 20 to quit smoking. Much harder to do. 71 and I just got in from a 5 mile run today. I have empathy have everyone caught up in addictions. Try to be an example for them now.

[Texaswitchy]

15. My brother tried he just couldn't stop smoking.

Glad you made it.

[multigraincracker]

18. I'm very lucky.

Just had my yearly chest scan and the results said less than 1% chance of lung cancer as of now. My dad smoked a pipe from 16 until he was 80 and then went on to live to 90 and died of kidney failure.

[Texaswitchy]

20. My other Grandfather smoked a pipe.

He lived until about to 95.

He didn't smoke a lot.

Maybe it is the pipe.

He died because my Grandmother died.

They were married forever.

[LanternWaste]

33. I'm on month three of no-smokes after a pack-day-habit since 1985.

Didn't quit for health (though dad and grandad both died of cancer), or even for common courtesy. They simply became too expensive to justify my continuance.

I s'pose I'm cheating... I began vaping nicotine instead of smoking it, which does the trick. Vaping works out to about $3/month as opposed to $200/month with cigs.

[multigraincracker]

35. I'm still doing a little piece of nico gum a few times a day.

That holding an sucking is hard to do. Your doing great.

[lpbk2713]

19. I remember people smoking in elevators.

Talk about stifling.

[Texaswitchy]

22. A small area was bad.

Try a greyhound bus ride for about 6 hours..

[lpbk2713]

25. Even the driver would smoke.

And eventually some #*%& would light up a cigar.

[Texaswitchy]

27. We set next to sliding window.

It helped a little.

Nothing but smoke in the bus.

Times have changed.

I never see anybody smoking.

[highplainsdem]

31. Yes, and I remember all the whining from some smokers that their "rights" were being violated.

[Texaswitchy]

36. They can still smoke .

But not in public places.

Smoke your lungs out at home.