My smoking started only in the 1950's, but I remember the late "40's well, and I assure you nearly everyone smoked. The "fleetline" sedan with suicide doors my father owned had about 30 ashtrays built in. Back then, and still in my time, you could smoke not only cigarettes but pipes and cigars nearly anywhere, public or private. Most of the people who did not smoke, nevertheless kept ashtrays in their homes for their friends who did. Notice how in classic movies, people who are offended by smoke are portrayed as nerds.
Mobacracy, I too vicariously enjoy watching the classic smoking. Also, I never smoked filter cigarettes (awful taste and make the back of your neck hurt from drawing too hard). I was a one-pack of Luckys daily, though I smoked a pipe at times, and in the last days of my smoking, rolled my own of pipe tobacco due high cost of readymades. Quiting after 40 years was fairly easy. I just started dipping snuff, which I did as a mean little kid before I started smoking. Now I have quit that to save my remaining teeth, but I am still a nic addict, as I take powdered snuff in my nose. I am always quick to take a "pinch" when watching smoking in the classics.
Not the politically correct type. So sue me.
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He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
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liscarkat (18456)
6 years ago
When I was a kid in the 1950s and '60s, my parents, all of my adult relatives, and all of their friends smoked. I don't remember any adult who didn't. If one had shown up, he would've been regarded as an oddball. Fortunately, I never developed the vile habit myself.
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