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just about as many people smoked as didn't, back in the day. if you didn't smoke, you still had ashtrays in the house, for when people came to visit.
when they first tried to control smoking on planes, it wasn't "no smoking at all" it was "let's at least have a non-smoking section"--it was seen as absurd that there even be a corner of the plane where one couldn't smoke.
I’ve read that aircraft mechanics were sad when smoking stopped because the nicotine smears on the aircraft were such a good visual clue of where air was leaking and it made theirs jobs a lot easier.
holy shit that's disgusting. saying that as a former smoker
But is it as disgusting as rapid depressurization?
False binary, though? It's not have smoking or have rapid depressurization...
Clearly you've never tried to quit smoking before...
Are...you making a joke or serious? I genuinely can't tell...
Yea it was a semi serious joke. Cause smoking is hard to shake. And also wanted to be snarky. I wasn't trying to be a dick.
Never quit playing, though
Nah can't be caught being too serious
More disgusting less distressing
I'm renovating a house that was last inhabited by smokers. My first attempt at painting inside led to the just-applied paint flowing down from the tops of the walls overnight.
I've helped renovate several smoker houses. Use Killz paint or a similar product, it works. Wear a mask, the fumes from that shit will fuck you up.
Before I repainted the "flowing" areas I wiped them down with mineral spirits and that seemed to do the trick.
Is that why Boeing’s quality went downhill?
/s
I was on a plane in the very early 90's, and I remember being about 10 years old and the second the 'smoking okay' sign came on, a WALL of smoke rolled back through the curtains that separated the sections.
yea, the "non-smoking" bit was a complete joke, especially on planes. restaurants were slightly better, but the smoke still went everywhere
they had to start somewhere though, and as powerful as big tobacco was at the time, it's kind of a miracle that they got anything changed at all
I first started eating out regularly in the '80s, and even now I will occasionally randomly ask to be seated in a restaurant's non-smoking section. It's surreal to think that was ever a thing.
I'm starting to forget that these things existed, because I'm old enough to remember a time when there was such a thing as a smoking/non-smoking section in restaurants but it feels like an entire lifetime ago that it was actually relevant to the point now where it would be a massive culture shock to see somebody light up indoors anywhere, let alone in a restaurant.
I like to point to indoor smoking bans and seatbelt laws as actual evidence of how a culture war backed up with science and facts can be sustained and won even against seemingly insurmountable odds to the benefit of society as a whole. In both of those cases, the data eventually won out against the multibillion dollar industries that were resisting regulation as well as the "muh freedom" crowd.