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The story (possibly apocryphal) in my family goes like this: My grandfather who smoked regularly was driving when he heard the first reporting on radio about th
by aklemm 8y ago
The story (possibly apocryphal) in my family goes like this: My grandfather who smoked regularly was driving when he heard the first reporting on radio about these findings. He threw his pack out the window (anti-littering didn't take hold til the 80s) and never smoked again.
- wil421 8y agoMy Grandfather did a similar thing. Small town doctor all his adult like and lived a very heathy life. Smoked up until the day he realized it was very bad and never looked back. Too bad my grandmother couldn’t kick the habit.
- orblivion 8y ago> anti-littering didn't take hold til the 80s That's kind of amazing to think. Did it seriously not occur to people that litter just doesn't look nice? Did people not think about cleaning up their rooms either?
- aklemm 8y agoIt was weird, and I think about it a lot. In wide open America, it must not have seemed like it would be much of a nuisance. The campaign in the 80s to end littering was really memorable, and it really worked.
- esotericn 8y agoIt's hard to explain. I guess we thought that the world was infinite. You just had the idea that, well, it'd blow away in the wind, and that would be that. It's obvious now that this isn't the case. Much like, I imagine, smoking was obviously fine, until it wasn't.