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Ah yes, the smoking section, and the second-hand-smoking section in restaurants

I remember cigarette smoke on airplanes.

as a young person who hates cigarettes and recently went to las vegas for the first time, it was wild walking around the casinos thinking "this is what everywhere used to smell like, its incredibly disgusting!" I'm glad we managed to stop smoking indoors, probably one of the greatest advances of society.

Yeah, I remember the tail end of this. Dedicated smoking rooms, or smoking carriages on trains. Or cafés and restaurants that would promote themselves as places where you could freely smoke.

Thankfully that's all gone now.

And airplanes. People used to smoke in airplanes.

Also it was a freaking huge industry to kill all the whales in the sea.

Once upon a time it was common to mine ice.

The world can be changed.

I remember growing up in Ohio when we banned smoking, there were commercials CONSTANTLY about it.

Smoke FREE Ohio vs smoke LESS Ohio.

And even in school I could tell that smoke LESS Ohio was going to force places that didn't have smoking, to allow smoking in certain areas.

And the guy in the commercial for it acted incredulous that they would ban smoking in bars! The horror! A place where people are densely packed clearly should be filled with cancerous death fog, slowly killing people who want to be at the bar but not partake in death sticks.

I was super happy when the ban happened. I hated going to nearby states without the smoking ban.

It took years for golden corral to stop smelling like shit.

My parents always used to sit in the smoking sections.

And they always smoked a few cigarettes during the meal.

I was so happy when they finally banned the cigarettes in restaurants. My parents were pissed.

Negative health effects aside, I do kinda miss the smell of certain places - the smoking tables of a restaurant, an 80's arcade, the back bar of a country pub... not in a way that I liked the smell at all, but that's what it always was, and taking an element away from it leaves a noticeable gap.

I suppose people of a later generation will never remember the difference, much like I never really knew anything but colour TV.

That said, I absolutely 100% do not miss going out on the piss, getting home somehow, and waking up in my clothes that absolutely reeked of smoke. It was horrific. A quick wash never seemed to clear it fully either - it was either a wash that lasted so long that it looked like you bought your clothes from the children's aisle, or a whole day line drying to get rid of that stale smoke smell.

I'm glad the world is moving on.

If you as much as had a coffee out you used to have to immediately wash everything you were wearing down to your socks. Turns out, jeans don't automatically stink if you cross your front door with them. Who knew.

It's been a while, but that tobacco smell on clothes was so weird. It smelled sweaty even if it wasn't, like you had been jogging through a house fire. So gross.

Between the massive corporate wealth at stake and the millions of people literally addicted to the product, it's hard now to imagine governments being able to ban them (and I lived through it).