Comment on Nostalgia
TomMasz@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I was second-hand smoking two packs a day until I was 13 (when my mom got lung cancer). But back then, every kid I knew was doing the same. Now, seeing people smoking is a relatively rare occurrence.
Oh god that must have sucked and sorry about your mom.
Man, to a non-smoker the world must have smelled like ass back then.
My dad was made to quit by my mum in 1973 when they had their first. By my birth in 77 I was really only around smokers at parties or friends houses.
Still didn’t stop me picking up the habit mind you, but I course corrected lol
And smoking in bed 🛏️ 🚬
smoking in the car with the windows rolled up because it was cold, hot, or raining lol. used to get such wicked headaches from the car jfc
I’m so much less prone to motion sickness nowadays, maybe that’s the reason 😅
Where I grew up you could smoke in bars when I was in high-school. Not only was I allowed to go in but the place was also absolutely full of cigarette smoke. Many of those basement bars shut down completely after one caught fire a few years ago. It was a huge scandal
Bars? You little whippersnapper. There was a time when every table had an ashtray. Every table everywhere: restaurants, stores, the checkout line at the gas station, public transportation…
And I am not talking about smoking sections, that came later. I’m talking about people with lit cigarettes being as ubiquitous as people on cellphones today.
I’ll never forget the old lady i saw as a child walking the grocery store with a lit cigarette hanging on her lip. Completely socially acceptable behavior at the time.
‘A relatively rare occurrence’?? I envy you, may I ask where you live? (definitely not in central Europe or the Middle East).
We Americans have many, many faults, but one thing we’ve actually been pretty good about is cutting back on smoking. When I was a kid everyone smoked, and now it’s pretty rare.
I think part of it is actually an unexpected benefit of capitalism. Restaurants and bars used to fight indoor smoking bans tooth and nail because all their cust6were smokers and they didn’t want to lose them. But then when the bans would happen, business actually increased - especially for bars. Turned out lots of people wanted to be able to grab a drink after work but didn’t want to go home smelling like cigarettes.
So now business groups other than big tobacco support the bans, which has resulted in a huge decline of social smoking.
US, New York state. My county banned smoking indoors before the state did. For a while you would see groups of people outside smoking but now it’s the often just one or two if there’s any. Of course, the smell of weed is everywhere now, so there’s that.
I’m a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.
At least switch to vaping. It’s 95% less harmful, especially if you go with an open mod and not sketchy gas station liquid.
What do you mean it’s less harmful? You’re pulling in smoke of course it will be detrimental for your lung. Saying it’s less harmful is just a blatant example of self-gaslighting
Would you say having one shot of liquor is less harmful than drinking a bottle? Or no, because you’re still drinking poison, so, clearly gaslighting yourself.
You’re pulling in smoke
Saying it’s less harmful is just a blatant example of self-gaslighting
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the whole process, and your opinion should be discarded as the ignorant rambling it is.
You don’t inhale smoke when vaping. You don’t even inhale vapor.
It’s atomized glycerin, propylene glycol, nicotine, and flavorings (unless you vape unflavored like me).
Someone needs to look up the term vaping, which comes from the term vapor, there’s a reason vaping isn’t called smoking. Vaping helped both me and my wife eventually quit smoking. It was a great stepping stone to getting clean
But it’s illegal in my country
Well that’s idiotic unless cigarettes are also illegal.
lukaro@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was a grown ass adult before I knew how awful cigarettes smelled simply because I was always surrounded by smoke I just thought that was how the world smelled.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I knew it stank, hated that shit growing up. But I know just how fucking godawful it was until I moved out. My stuff reeked for months, or years if it was stored.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m old enough to remember coming home from bars with my clothes reeking, even though I never smoked myself.