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Riding in the car with the windows rolled up and them smoking away. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think we could have made the progress with smoking in the US now like we did back then. Would have turned into a partisan issue about freedoms and all that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, there were plenty of people throwing a fit about it back in the 90s too. The only difference is no one had social media to go find one another and rile each other up. The few foaming at the month couldn't shout loud enough. You should have heard my bio dad at the time frothing he couldn't walk into the grocery with a lit cigarette. Apparently the communists had won.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

They did have Rush Limbaugh crowing about smoking bans, but the lung cancer that eventually killed him makes it harder to take his advice