• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I was born in the early 90s and remember making fun of the idea that a non-smoking section separated from active smokers in the IHOP by a thin barrier that didn’t even reach the ceiling could do anything.

    Boy, leaded gasoline really fucked up whole generations, didn’t it? Oh… We are still dealing with the fallout from that, aren’t we?

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      4 months ago

      I was born in the early 90s and remember making fun of the idea that a non-smoking section separated from active smokers in the IHOP by a thin barrier that didn’t even reach the ceiling could do anything.

      Barrier? Most restaurants barely divided the two with an aisle.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
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        4 months ago

        Tim Hortons had the smoking box, I’d give a lot to find a photo of it. Basically it was one of the last holdouts.

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      I’m still convinced that lead poisoning was the catalyst for the fall of the Roman empire. And they weren’t even breathing tainted air constantly.

      We still use lead pipes for water infrastructure in many areas of the country for fucks sake.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        Fun fact: ancient and medieval societies had so much fucking lead around because lead is commonly found in silver ore (galena), usually around 100X more plentiful than the silver and it melts at a lower temperature. So the quest for silver produced huge amounts of lead as a byproduct and people found uses for it like roofs, water pipes and, uh, sweeteners? Jesus Christ, Rome.