Smoking anywhere you wanted to?

[Stefanmuller]

Do you remember being allowed to smoke wherever you wanted to, like lighting one up in the middle of Tygervalley, the bank, the cinema and even an aeroplane? Not sure when the laws came in (1995?), I can't remember being able to smoke like in shops, banks, movies etc as I was too young and did not smoke (maybe std6) but I do remember some older friends smoking in Tygervalley centre. Was smoking really allowed in aeroplanes, as many still has ashtrays on the seats? Anyways, its almost unreal to think that it was once "normal" to smoke in those places.

[ave]

Im so glad they changed that. I remember sitting in restaurants with some A-hole always there to blow smoke in our faces.

[Chevron]

Im so glad they changed that. I remember sitting in restaurants with some A-hole always there to blow smoke in our faces.

+1.

They need to find a faster way to commit suicide. Smoking takes way too long.

[hugo69er]

I think u were even allowed to smoke in the cinemas at one stage.

[Voicy]

They used to include ciggies in the army Rat packs at one stage.

[Kosmik]

Im so glad they changed that. I remember sitting in restaurants with some A-hole always there to blow smoke in our faces.

+1000!

[biometrics]

The bank queue with the ropes had ashtrays on the poles. Seems ludicrous now.

[wheunis]

Im so glad they changed that. I remember sitting in restaurants with some A-hole always there to blow smoke in our faces.

I remember sitting in restaurants as recently as yesterday with all these farters blowing rancid feces particles in all directions.
I wish they would change that. Just outlaw old people from public for good!

I'm afraid that your direction of thinking leads to bad places...

[Stefanmuller]

I think u were even allowed to smoke in the cinemas at one stage.

I can only imagine the irritation of smoke combined with popcorn crunching all around you. Has anyone witnessed smoking allowed on airplanes?

[Kosmik]

I can only imagine the irritation of smoke combined with popcorn crunching all around you. Has anyone witnessed smoking allowed on airplanes?

Many many years ago, when I was 13 on a international flight from SA to Europe. '93 I think.

[binkybozo]

I can only imagine the irritation of smoke combined with popcorn crunching all around you. Has anyone witnessed smoking allowed on airplanes?

I have, my mom would fly smoking and she would put me in non-smoking. The smokers would sit in the back of the plane.

[Spizz]

Eish, I didn't realise I was so old, but I remember all of these :(

In the cinema you could smoke on one side of the aisle but not the other. On a public bus, smoke at the back half, not the front. Smoked on an airplane also, 1991 on air Portugal I remember specifically.

Shopping centres no problem either, but going into a shop was not allowed although I remember the banks being ok when I was a kid and there with my dad.

Really seems weird now alright.

[Paul Hjul]

well you've never been able to smoke anywhere you wanted. Petrol stations for example have always been a no no for smoking as have sections of hospitals - not because smoking is generally bad for your heath but because it is quite fatal when mixed with an oxygen supply ...

[Stefanmuller]

Eish, I didn't realise I was so old, but I remember all of these :(

In the cinema you could smoke on one side of the aisle but not the other. On a public bus, smoke at the back half, not the front. Smoked on an airplane also, 1991 on air Portugal I remember specifically.

Shopping centres no problem either, but going into a shop was not allowed although I remember the banks being ok when I was a kid and there with my dad.

Really seems weird now alright.

Yes, its actually shocking to think it was allowed back then. Even if it was allowed, I don't think I will be able to get myself to smoke in a cinema or an aeroplane.

[ave]

Eish, I didn't realise I was so old, but I remember all of these :(

In the cinema you could smoke on one side of the aisle but not the other. On a public bus, smoke at the back half, not the front. Smoked on an airplane also, 1991 on air Portugal I remember specifically.

Shopping centres no problem either, but going into a shop was not allowed although I remember the banks being ok when I was a kid and there with my dad.

Really seems weird now alright.

I remember when I was about 10, my gran always send me to the shops to pick up her van ryan 30's. No one minded selling cigarettes to kids back then. hahaha haven't times changed.

[Acid0]

I remember when I was about 10, my gran always send me to the shops to pick up her van ryan 30's. No one minded selling cigarettes to kids back then. hahaha haven't times changed.

Yes these days the youth sends their grannie to buy the smokes :)

Back then it was part of the culture to smoke.

Just the one thing you cant get over is that you could smoke in the hospitals.
If you have a copy watch the movie Lipstick dipstick, in one of the scenes Zack sits on the ashtray in the hospital and smokes.

There was always a advert just before the movie started in cinemas I think it was Peter Stuyvesant or something like that

[MartyMarts]

There was always a advert just before the movie started in cinemas I think it was Peter Stuyvesant or something like that

I remember those. Usually it was of people skiing, flying in helicopters, partying on large boats etc. Never understood the connection between living a life of glamour and cigarettes.

[Acid0]

I remember those. Usually it was of people skiing, flying in helicopters, partying on large boats etc. Never understood the connection between living a life of glamour and cigarettes.

you can do all this if you smoke our brand

All just brainwash

[remola]

I must be the oldest person here.

I can remember smoking on flights to Israel and to London. Initially people could smoke pretty much anywhere eventually they changed to it to the last few rows of the plane only.

I can still remember standing squashed like a sardine having a smoke in the back of a El Al Boeing 747 thinking "I'm very glad I'm not the unlucky one sitting in the last rows" The smoke in the last few isles was constant and of hight volume from the moment the no smoking light went out till landing time.

[remola]

I remember sitting at my desk at work with a huge ashtray next to me having a smoke while doing my job. We couldn't smoke anywhere in the office but there was one floor where you could choose to go sit if you were a smoker.

Ah the good old days.

I stopped smoking 12 years ago this year and to be honest the constant minimizing of cigarette advertising has been a great help, there wasn't the constant reminder to go smoke everywhere you turned.

Something to think about. You'll almost never see people smoking cigarettes in the movies or on tv any more due to strict anti smoking legislation, though many shows glorify drug use i.e. Weeds {Not just saying its OK to smoke weed but also deal heroin}.

So what is the entertainment world, and legislation, telling our children? "Dont smoke cigarettes, but smoking weed and doing/selling coke and heroin is ok"

A bit skewed if you ask me.