When I was a kid my parents didn’t let me use a lighter to light fireworks so they gave me a lit cigarette instead.
I once found a full pack of cigarettes on the ground at age ~10. I quickly figured out that lighting it on fire and using the cigarette to set off fireworks was so much easier than using a lighter. I didn’t even think of smoking it, I just left it lit on the ground and used it as a lighter.
I didn’t understand why my parents were so worried when they found out lol.
Me too. “It lasts a lot longer and isn’t nearly as dangerous since it isn’t an open flame,” they told me.
They sell punk for this. They look like incense sticks without any scent. Just a smoldering slow burning stick, used to light fireworks with.
They do now. For those of us that still speak the old magic, we know that a lit cigarette was the original punk.
I remember that. It was so annoying. Her brand smelled awful. The ones I smoked were way better.
I was second-hand smoking two packs a day until I was 13 (when my mom got lung cancer). But back then, every kid I knew was doing the same. Now, seeing people smoking is a relatively rare occurrence.
And smoking in bed 🛏️ 🚬
hotboxing while smoking in the car with the windows rolled up because it was cold, hot, or raining lol. used to get such wicked headaches from the car jfc
I’m so much less prone to motion sickness nowadays, maybe that’s the reason 😅
Oh god that must have sucked and sorry about your mom.
Man, to a non-smoker the world must have smelled like ass back then.
My dad was made to quit by my mum in 1973 when they had their first. By my birth in 77 I was really only around smokers at parties or friends houses.
Still didn’t stop me picking up the habit mind you, but I course corrected lol
‘A relatively rare occurrence’?? I envy you, may I ask where you live? (definitely not in central Europe or the Middle East).
We Americans have many, many faults, but one thing we’ve actually been pretty good about is cutting back on smoking. When I was a kid everyone smoked, and now it’s pretty rare.
I think part of it is actually an unexpected benefit of capitalism. Restaurants and bars used to fight indoor smoking bans tooth and nail because all their cust6were smokers and they didn’t want to lose them. But then when the bans would happen, business actually increased - especially for bars. Turned out lots of people wanted to be able to grab a drink after work but didn’t want to go home smelling like cigarettes.
So now business groups other than big tobacco support the bans, which has resulted in a huge decline of social smoking.
I’m a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.
At least switch to vaping. It’s 95% less harmful, especially if you go with an open mod and not sketchy gas station liquid.
What do you mean it’s less harmful? You’re pulling in smoke of course it will be detrimental for your lung. Saying it’s less harmful is just a blatant example of self-gaslighting
Would you say having one shot of liquor is less harmful than drinking a bottle? Or no, because you’re still drinking poison, so, clearly gaslighting yourself.
Where I grew up you could smoke in bars when I was in high-school. Not only was I allowed to go in but the place was also absolutely full of cigarette smoke. Many of those basement bars shut down completely after one caught fire a few years ago. It was a huge scandal
Bars? You little whippersnapper. There was a time when every table had an ashtray. Every table everywhere: restaurants, stores, the checkout line at the gas station, public transportation…
And I am not talking about smoking sections, that came later. I’m talking about people with lit cigarettes being as ubiquitous as people on cellphones today.
I’ll never forget the old lady i saw as a child walking the grocery store with a lit cigarette hanging on her lip. Completely socially acceptable behavior at the time.
Good God that kid looks like me. I had that same atrocious bowl cut.
there were thousands of us.
the 70s were a cruel time.
70s? That look held on until the early 80s. If you know you know.
And then your fingers stank for an hour.
