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Yeah, smoking was everywhere. I remember flying when you could smoke. But the main thing is the smell of stale cigarette smoke was just like this undercurrent
by jasonwatkinspdx 4y ago
Yeah, smoking was everywhere. I remember flying when you could smoke.
But the main thing is the smell of stale cigarette smoke was just like this undercurrent of any public place you went. Everyone's car. Churches. Everywhere it was that smell.
Also at least where I was in KS, store clerks didn't give a crap. We could buy smokes in middle school if we wanted. Thankfully I never did more than a brief fascination with cloves (and believe me, smoking too many cloves one night because you're upset over a girl will cure you of that).
- drra 4y agoI was a kid during that time and even though I didn't smoke I only started to smell this when I was out of contact with cigarettes smoke for a week. My senses adapted quickly back in smoking environment and I couldn't smell the stench any more.
- cookrn 4y agoPeople would smoke in church? During the service?
- ornornor 4y ago“Hey, if god didn’t want me to smoke he shouldn’t have invented cigarettes”
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoIn some of the more old school churches I went to in Missouri yeah. More on the Kansas side of my family it was more everyone would smoke in the foyer / approaching steps or such, and it'd just suck through the whole building the whole day.
- loeg 4y agoIf a lot of worshipers smoked outside just beforehand, it would still smell of stale cigs inside.
- rprospero 4y agoI remember this as an old joke: It's sinful to smoke while you're praying, but it's virtuous to pray while you're smoking.