I hate how so many cities smell like asphalt and burnt rubber. It is a disgusting smell and it makes our cities feel so dirty and nasty.
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I grew up in ghetto whitetrash America, wheee bit more than cigarettes
Cigarettes smell gross objectively but I get a wave of.....nostalgia I think? when I smell it
My parents never smoked, but on the rare occasion of going to a sit-down restaurant the whole place smelled of cigs despite being in the "non smoking" section. You know because you're still in the same room with them.
And when my dad would visit his fire department friends they'd all hang around and at least one of them had one lit up.
We do live in better times in some ways
Some cities still do.
I miss smoking but don't miss the smell.
I liked the actual smell of burning cigarettes, but the stake smoke that lingered on your clothes and hair after a night bar hopping was gnarly.
I remember getting stuck in the smoking section of cracker barrel because the good section was full as a kid.
sry, but I like my drugs, also this depends on where you are, if you're in europe it still smells like cigarettes everywhere, but with a touch of strawberry ice vapes
In Europe, doesn't smell like cigarettes everywhere
where I live it does
My mom used to pick the smoking section. I'll never be able to empathize with that.
I remember this happening, and the smell went from just dirty and grim to a little bit of body odour. Many people complained, because they didn't want to smell people's BO, whereas 90% of others were just happy to not have clothes that stunk, or to be able to not have a sore throat after being at a club.
With that said, vaping is so much more commonplace today than smoking was. I've been to a few gigs in the last month or two, and people just vape wherever they want. Pretty much every venue, shopping center, and indoor area says you shouldn't vape, but it's just not enforced at all.
I find vaping way less of an offensive smell than cigarettes. To me, cigarettes smell just gross.
I also don't mind the smell of weed too much usually but maybe that's just me.
Believe me when I tell you vaping is not more common place today than smoking was then. Yes, vaping is the norm today. Smoking was so common then though, you couldn't drive your car down the street without smelling cigarettes. At a red light you could play count the cigarettes hanging out the windows. Now I see a few vape clouds occasionally as I drive. Just know if you where alive in the early 90s or before and you think vaping today is more common place then cigarettes where then; you are simply remembering it wrong. Cigarettes were everywhere. Everywhere. The world was covered in cigarette butts. In front of every business was an ashtray that stunk, in every gutter of every sidewalk was butts. It was an aroma that was extremely difficult to find reprieve from.
True, my point (as a man nearly in his forties) is that indoors vaping is more common, especially in venues where smoking was never allowed. Outside, everyone used to smoke all the time, and it was grim.
Indoors people used to smoke all the time. Office workers had ash trays on their desks. Supermarkets had ash trays.
People smoked in pubs, clubs, arenas, events
There were nearly no limits on where someone may smoke
Near me the last indoor smoking was banned in the late 90s
Just wanted to say I like your name.
Still does in Japan and Montreal
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