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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

We smoked everywhere. Grocery stores, hospital rooms, planes, taxis, buses, restaurants – no place was off limits, and there were barely any designated smoking sections. Everyone smoked, even if they didn’t, because it was literally everywhere.

Go back far enough and people who didn’t smoke often kept cigarettes and ashtrays for guests because it was a polite thing to do for company.

It’s one of the biggest (and lesser acknowledged) cultural shifts we’ve seen over the last several decades.