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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I remember whenever you went to a sit down restaurant you had to tell the person seating you if you wanted smoking or non-smoking. As if it mattered lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Our favorite restaurant* growing up had a little corner with like 3 tables as the non smoking section. We'd go there because my kindergarten teacher and her husband owned it.

*Bar that served food

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

We're cool, we allow these pesky non smokers here.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

more egregiously, plane tickets!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Actually, most planes from that era circulated air front to rear and smoking was always the rear section, and the entire cabin's air was renovated every 1-3 minutes, so unless you were seated in the row immediately before smoking, you didn't get smoke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I hear you, but for some reason I don't believe you. I grew up in the 80s and never experienced cigs on a plane, but I have a feeling the smoke smell spread further than the seated row before smoking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You'd just roll down the window a bit. It wasn't a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe they should start letting us roll down the window again on planes then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a former smoker, I'm sure you could still snel the smoke.

But my friend, who is an airline captain, told me the cabins did get better ventilation back in the smoking days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

One can only imagine what the vents looked like 🤮

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

My first flight that i was ever on was pretty much the last one that still had smokers on them, and the airplane definitely snelled like smoke. I remember my second flight, some guy lit up a cigarette and they explained him that smoking isn't allowed anymore, and people were like: i fon't care, let him smoke and shit. Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Whole plane smelled ugly. Old enough to remember and despise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Smell yes (as pretty much any enclosed public place, office, etc. of that era). Smoke? not much.

Source, old enough to have smoked in planes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

One of the last times i was in a restaurant where indoor smoking was still a thing, the waitress asked us if we want to be seated in a smoking or non smoking section. We picked non smoking, because, gross. We were right on the line between smokers and non smokers, and i sat back to back to a guy who chainsmoked when we were eating.