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Smoking or non?

Looks like you're about 25 years younger than me. When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a nonsmoking section. Of course you could smoke, anywhere!

Us kids didn't get real tobacco cigarettes, but we always had candy cigarettes so we could "smoke" along with the grown-ups.

https://www.google.com/search?q=candy+cigarette&tbm=isch

One difference from today was that our candy cigarettes had brand names just like the grown-up cigarettes, or a close facsimile:

https://thedieline.com/blog/2019/10/28/the-history-of-the-ca...

"Hey dad, can I bum a smoke?"

I remember the first time I took an airline flight after they introduced a non-smoking section at the back of the plane. I got seated in the front row of non-smoking, right behind the last row of smoking.

As soon as the no smoking light went off, everyone in the row ahead of me lit up!

parent Stratoscope 3 years ago

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