For George

[jon-nyc]

Imagine smoking a pipe on an Amtrak.

[George K]

I remember smoking cigarettes on an airplane, ffs.

[jon-nyc]

So do I. I kept it up for a couple of years after they banned it domestically, as I was flying to and around Latin America all the time.

It’s hard for kids to fathom how ubiquitous smoking was,

[Copper]

On the airplane, you could smoke in the first row of the smoking section.

And it was just too bad for the guy in the last row of non-smoking.

We could smoke in class when I was in college.

[George K]

@Copper said in For George:

We could smoke in class when I was in college.

Yup. Same here. I remember finishing a Marlboro during chemistry class, and dropping the butt to the floor. It ended standing on end. I thought to myself, as I crushed it with my shoe, "I'll never be able to do that again."

[Doctor Phibes]

The weirdest one in retrospect was the smoking and non-smoking sections in cinemas. If you wanted to smoke, you had to sit on the left hand side of the theatre. Obviously, being British, there was little to no ventilation.

[jon-nyc]

@Copper said in For George:

On the airplane, you could smoke in the first row of the smoking section.
And it was just too bad for the guy in the last row of non-smoking.

I was usually upgraded on relatively small planes which would have maybe 4 rows of first class. The last, where I would sit, would be smoking. So everyone in front and 20+ rows behind me was in ‘non-smoking’.

[taiwan_girl]

I went to watch a basketball game in Serbia, and they allowed smoking in the indoor court where the spectators sit.

Cough