casinos dont allow smoking anymore (at least the ones ive been) and the smoking room they had was so small and pathetic and had no ventilation at all it was terrible
not that i went there to smoke or gamble i just wanted to check it out. it was horrible
Yes they don’t have it here either.
lol when they did, a pack didn’t cost $12.00
This looks like a cig vending machine that’s still in use today.
Yeah, probably in a bar.
When I was little, I asked my parents why they don’t smoke and they just laughed. I didn’t understand why. Because 100% of the other adults I knew were smokers.
I remember when Camel’s, Marlboro’s, and Newports were $0.60 a pack
Aww I love meeting fellow older people on Lemmy.
Just wrapping up a trip to China… I kept telling my partner how much every restaurant smelled like the 80s. So glad it’s not like this any more in the States.
Oh wow. That must have been awful.
I do, but a pack of cigarettes wasn’t $12 back then…
I can’t imagine trying to put $12 in quarters into that machine.
I remember being in the hospital emergency room with parents during the mid 70’s and the doctor lit one up right there. My parents later talked about how inappropriate it was. That was the first time I heard talk of it being bad. Everyone smoked everywhere all the time
I know an older nurse whose job it was to follow a pediatrician around the children’s hospital and try and catch his ashes in an ashtray while he rounded on his patients.
I mean at one point Olympic athletes were spokesmen for cigarettes cause they thought it opened your lungs.
Go watch some of the WSM competitions, they’ll lift mass amounts of weight, then immediately get interviewed and will be dragging down a cig.
In early high school (15~ years ago), I went with my girlfriend at the time and her family to a local restaurant that still had one of the only smoking sections left in the city. All of her family smoked, and I couldn’t even enjoy my meal because my senses were overloaded by cigarettes. It was horrible and I’m so thankful we removed smoking indoors in the states.
I remember being at a Legion fish fry once years ago and you could still smoke in there after it was banned everywhere else. Fish and smoke do not mix well.
I got to bar age after most cities in my area passed non-smoking bylaws for bars and restaurants, but lived for a bit in one city that didn’t yet have a ban. I smoked at the time. I remember thinking that while it was nice to be able to just have a smoke while chilling on a couch with friends and a drink, the air quality sucked overall and I was glad to see the ban eventually go through there, too.
A while later, I stopped smoking in my car. If I wanted a smoke, I’d park somewhere and do it outside. For places I lived, if it already had people smoking indoors, I’d just do that, but otherwise I’d smoke outside because the clean air was nicer (both while smoking outside and when I returned to the inside).
So even as a smoker, the convenience wasn’t worth it to me, unless the air quality was already bad.
I took a smoking flight once. It totally reeked. Even as a smoker it was unpleasant. I also smoked in my hospital room after an appendectomy, which in hindsight seems absolutely nuts.
I quit 12 years ago after trying dozens of times. I credit e-cigs with helping me finally wean off of tobacco.
Good for you for quitting, that’s hard.
I know an older nurse who used to have to follow a pediatrician around the children’s hospital with an ashtray trying to catch his ashes while he rounded on patients.
German airports still do, have smoking rooms in fact
Wow! But a lot of Germans smoke right? And in restaurants too?
I think smoking rooms in hotels are still a thing, but they’re certainly less common than they were. My mother and I got stuck in a smoking room despite booking a non-smoking room well in advance and it was awful. Stayed just one night and our clothes smelled like cigarette smoke for the rest of the trip.
I don’t really care if people smoke, but gosh, ya’ll need ventilation.
