• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Believe me when I tell you vaping is not more common place today than smoking was then. Yes, vaping is the norm today. Smoking was so common then though, you couldn’t drive your car down the street without smelling cigarettes. At a red light you could play count the cigarettes hanging out the windows. Now I see a few vape clouds occasionally as I drive. Just know if you where alive in the early 90s or before and you think vaping today is more common place then cigarettes where then; you are simply remembering it wrong. Cigarettes were everywhere. Everywhere. The world was covered in cigarette butts. In front of every business was an ashtray that stunk, in every gutter of every sidewalk was butts. It was an aroma that was extremely difficult to find reprieve from.

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      3 days ago

      True, my point (as a man nearly in his forties) is that indoors vaping is more common, especially in venues where smoking was never allowed. Outside, everyone used to smoke all the time, and it was grim.

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        3 days ago

        Indoors people used to smoke all the time. Office workers had ash trays on their desks. Supermarkets had ash trays.

        People smoked in pubs, clubs, arenas, events

        There were nearly no limits on where someone may smoke

        Near me the last indoor smoking was banned in the late 90s