WOW! What an ad!! Great find! The 'miracle of marlboros'........YIKES!!!
Any "older" members still recall the time when smoking was acceptable indoors?
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WOW! What an ad!! Great find! The 'miracle of marlboros'........YIKES!!!
Parenting is a job. It takes a lot of work and effort and though you know you did it wrong you can still succeed. I know I succeeded because my three have told me so many times 
Cigarette burns on top of plastic toilet paper distributors in bars, restaurants, cafes, rest areas... burns on wooden floors just about anywhere, burns in movie theater seats, people flicking ashes in mid-air anywhere, pushing ashes off restaurant tables with the side of the hand, sometimes catching them with an ashtray. Children telling their parents their eyes burned (from the smoke) and being told they'll just grow stronger
Off topic: the old adage "one must suffer to be beautiful". Todays kids seem to have taken that one literally with all the tattoos and piercings...
I'm really pleased, and very surprised, that my first post this morning, not an hour out of bed yet, has been so well-received; generally when I'm just out of bed I manage to piss off SOMEBODY. Guess I got up on the RIGHT side of the bed today.
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The right side of the bed changes depending on whether you're sleeping on your back or your tummy
But, seriously, that was an epic post! We need an epic post compilation thread in which no one can reply, just epic posts like that one a ratings button.
There were always the whiners around. We probably were even allowed to smoke while waiting for our chest X-rays. Yes, the good old days when most people had ashtrays all around in their homes. Sigh.....what would get me mad were the inconsiderate smokers who lit up in elevators and would grind out their cigarettes into the carpeting of public buildings.
I took a charter flight from Logan to Cancun in 1993 that was non-stop 4 hour plus and smoking was allowed. You had to provide your own lighter though.
My first summer job was in the tobacco fields of Northern Connecticut, in a region referred to as "the Tobacco Valley". When we succumbed to green nicotine poisoning the foreman would give us a salt pill, a cup of tepid water, and sit us down in the shade for fifteen minutes...then send us back to the field as a man...
Just remembered one, how about cars when you had to apply the high beams with a switch on the floorboard that you had to foot stomp!! Ahhhh good times with the car I learned to drive with!!
Not sure if any older military guys posted, but C-Rations had a small pack of cigs in them. I only experienced C-rations for about 6 months before the freeze-dried MREs (originals) came out. Nice to sit in the field training area all nice and dirty and stinky and enjoy a cig after eating a gourmet meal.
Or the starter "peg" just above and to the right of the gas pedal?
I miss those; putting that switch on the turn signal was just STUPID. Not a big deal in the daytime, but at night, turn on the signal... and high beams blind the driver coming towards you.
Andria
Or the manual choke? There's times I still miss those (now that my car is getting old and cranky LOL)
I also remember in the early 80s, a friend in the Navy who didn't smoke but would bring me cartons of Marlboros that he could get while at sea for $2 each - they were about $4 I think at the commissary. I was paying around $6 at the local store IIRC.
When I started smoking, cigs were 35 cents a pack at the convenience store in TX, and nobody batted an eye at a 13 yr old buying smokes. When I visited family in VA during the summer they were even cheaper - and literally EVERYONE in tobacco country smoked.
My mom grew up on a tobacco farm and never smoked tho. She used to try to discourage me by telling me stories about the big fat tobacco worms that would get trapped in the leaves when they cured, curling up around the worms, and then the worms got processed with the tobacco. Obviously it didn't work. Somehow it made me think I wouldn't want to put that in my mouth, but smoking it was ok LOL
I miss those; putting that switch on the turn signal was just STUPID. Not a big deal in the daytime, but at night, turn on the signal... and high beams blind the driver coming towards you.
Andria
Speaking of cars... I remember how they all came standard with builtin ashtrays.
Last time I had an inpatient surgery and had to stay in the hospital smoking was allowed in your hospital room.
You used to be allowed to smoke anywhere and everywhere and there were no dirty looks and no second thoughts.
And when I started smoking, when I was a kid, my first pack of cigarettes, from a vending machine was $.30.
You used to be allowed to smoke anywhere and everywhere and there were no dirty looks and no second thoughts.
And when I started smoking, when I was a kid, my first pack of cigarettes, from a vending machine was $.30.
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Being a child in the 60s and70s was awesome!
Banana seats and sissy bars on bicycles.
The popular "video" game was the Gong Show.
Evil Knievel almost jumped snake river canyon.
Big Jim had a Kung Fu Grip and GI Joe had a beard.
Sunshine was healthy and TANG was the breakfast of astronauts.
Comic books were actually made for kids and cost $0.10.
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The coolest wireless communication device we had was a "Mr. Microphone".
Banana seats and sissy bars on bicycles.
The popular "video" game was the Gong Show.
Evil Knievel almost jumped snake river canyon.
Big Jim had a Kung Fu Grip and GI Joe had a beard.
Sunshine was healthy and TANG was the breakfast of astronauts.
Comic books were actually made for kids and cost $0.10.
edited to add:
The coolest wireless communication device we had was a "Mr. Microphone".
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Not cigarette related, but I'm old enough to remember when Doctors would come to your home and make "house calls".
That's so long ago I almost forgot they used to do that. Ha ha
That's so long ago I almost forgot they used to do that. Ha ha
Obviously, the people in this thread are from some alternate dimension. Here in this dimension, second-hand smoke kills people. If as many people smoked as you all claim did, and did it in public places, then humanity would be extinct by now. So, obviously this is not speaking about our shared reality as the population grew in this dimension during those years, and there's no way that would be physically possible if second-hand smoke was occurring.
Unless ANTZ have been lying to us....
Unless ANTZ have been lying to us....
Back when I started smoking, there really weren't many places it wasn't allowed. Movie theater, airplane, doctors office, grocery store, whatever, people smoked.
If it was as dangerous as the anti-smokers pretend, everyone in the US would have died a long time ago. Despite all the "OMG, it's not healthy" stuff, I'm convinced that the real reason so many hate smoking is because of the smell. And for that, I can't really blame them.
If it was as dangerous as the anti-smokers pretend, everyone in the US would have died a long time ago. Despite all the "OMG, it's not healthy" stuff, I'm convinced that the real reason so many hate smoking is because of the smell. And for that, I can't really blame them.
Which is exactly why it took me until my son was 9 before I realized that it was actually my indoor smoking that was playing such hell with his lungs -- I grew up when everyone smoked everywhere, and it never hurt me. Sadly, my son was different -- and some are, which I've accepted, despite my belief that 2nd-hand smoke isn't really as dangerous as the ANTZ like to pretend, not to everyone anyway.
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