The 1980s summed up in a single photo.

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Whenever older folks tell me they want to return to what the U.S. was like I think about the times I had to ask for a non-smoking table only to wait an extra 10 minutes just to sit somewhere where I could still smell the sweet aroma of stale cigarettes like a pound of ash that was fermented with moldy potatoes being stuffed up my nostrils.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somehow underselling how much it sucked.

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or actually sitting in the smoking section because your folks are smokers. Blech!

    That smell gets on everything.

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hope your lungs made it out of there ok. My friends mom died from lung cancer, but the kids are mostly ok so far. Sad part was she was a nurse who smoked like a chimney pretty much right up until death.

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  • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Every once in a while I remember that people could smoke on airplanes and trains and I am so thankful that that fucking bullshit is over. My god, that was some awful shit.

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  • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Counter point- I miss being able to smoke in bars

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  • derry@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    After having to stroll through the smoking section none the less

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• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There used to be smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But they have HEPA filters way back in the tail section!

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With ashtrays in the arms of the seats at that. You still used to see them for a long time afterwards but they were sealed off.

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  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I served at a restaurant that had this. Not only was the entire dining room a de-facto smoking area, despite the zoning, but it mattered for nothing if your section was smoking or not. Between the constant smell of fry grease and cigarettes, I wanted to burn my uniform after every shift. And since I was depending on a low paying job, guess how often laundry happened? :(

    PSA: Tipping culture is a problem, but so are server wages. Please help 'em out; their job is miserable.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thank fuck smoking indoors in public spaces has been banned in Brazil since 1997, I can’t stand the smell

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can smell this picture.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• ODGreen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All the glass ashtrays are like 10% lead too.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that’s why they are delicious

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    May as well sprinkle a little lead induced brain damage on top of the lung cancer.

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    • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Licking restaurant ashtrays is just what we kids did back then. We didn’t know any better!

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, we did a lot of stealing back then. Ashtrays, glasses, towels. Steal steal steal.

  Cigarettes still suck. I would never talk to strangers but I’m pointing it out to them if I see them throwing cigarette butts.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Stolen ashtrays setc. was almost free marketing distribution.

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• Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And nothing of value was lost.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember siting down at fast food restaurants and playing with the little free matchbook sitting in the ashtray.

  (Playing meaning reading it and looking at it, I would have been throttled right there if I tried to light one of the matches.)

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• mvilain@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nana had a bunch of ash trays from Vegas casinos. They were much classier that these things. And I seriously doubt she ever ate at any of these places in her life.

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  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But those casinos stank just as bad, because stale cigarette smoke out-ranks cheap food

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    • CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Those casinos still stink. Smoking in casinos in Vegas is still allowed.

      Had to walk through the casino to get food at my hotel. My clothes absolutely reeked of stale cigarettes from the couple minutes it took.

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The casino here still allowed smoking long after it was banned everywhere else. You could also smoke at the Royal Canadian Legion after the fish fry was over.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had some of those, plus the disposable gold foil ones from McDonald's.

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• Shamber@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh the good old days, where the doctor telling my dad to stop smoking while he’s smoking 😅

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reading the headline: Oh bullshit

  Seeing the picture: Oh, OK, yes

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would never do you wrong.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Got to camp today and pulled out a thing my wife found. 1980’s ashtray from a San Francisco bar. Had a solid laugh about your post. (I put my .22 rounds in it while I shoot.)

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hotel ones with hotel ice buckets, too.

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nothing like Arby’s and a live one

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Arby’s twice

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• flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those little tin Burger King ones were peak.

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• Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bottom-left on every scavenger hunt.

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