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.
Takes 8 at a time… Christ.
Ka chunk.
Click click click click click click click click
Ka chunk…
Thank fuck this is no longer the case – the “non-smoking” sections were usually just 2nd hand smoke sections
When every restaurant and bar you went into reeked of stale cigarette smoke. Yuck.
Smoking sections in restaurants were just as bad.
I worked at a pub for a while, and had an instance where a group of friends sitting outside moved 2-3 metres away to smoke. I basically had to tell them to either stop smoking or go to the designated smoking area because they were ruining the meal of everybody sitting around
They honestly didn’t take the news well. Made me feel less bad about putting my foot down
People do tend to act more entitled in groups.
I remember when Camel’s, Marlboro’s, and Newports were $0.60 a pack
Aww I love meeting fellow older people on Lemmy.
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.
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 think the world is better off with the decline of tobacco but I used to spend time in East Germany and they used to have cigarette machines right on the street. My Oma would send me down with 5 marks to pick her up a pack.
My “step-dad” used to sit as close as he could to the smoking section in restaurants and would try to fight anyone that lit up.
Childhood was fun.
That does sound fun!
Lovely fun trauma, yay.
I was only a kid when we still had smoking vs non smoking sections, but I remember how odd I thought it was back then.
The pungent smell of smoke permeated the air throughout the entire restaurant. Usually there was not even a door separating smoking from non smoking. Idk what they were hoping to accomplish.
It’s like having a pissing and no pissing side in a pool.
Omg yes exactly! I’ve not heard this comparison before but it is spot on! Like what was even the point??
I remember when the Denny’s not far from my apartment had one of these vending machines.
Denny’s should’ve been able to grandfather in their smoking sections for the night shift. It’s not like you went to that place to taste your food anyway.
I remember McDonald’s having those goofy little aluminum ash trays.
The packs cost more and you got less in them so a 20 pack would have 17
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.
There is one in a local VFW near me. It’s a straight $10 and it’s like $11 and some change in the store, so it brings in a crowd.
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.
Airplanes even had ashtrays with little flip up lids in the armrests.
I remember!
German airports still do, have smoking rooms in fact
Wow! But a lot of Germans smoke right? And in restaurants too?
It’s been a few years, but last time I was there, (some) bars in Berlin still has large smoking sections.
People also smoke on the streets, and after a while my throat starts to get irritated from all the secondhand smoke
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.
