• Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.id
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      2 months ago

      Our favorite restaurant* growing up had a little corner with like 3 tables as the non smoking section. We’d go there because my kindergarten teacher and her husband owned it.

      *Bar that served food

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        2 months ago

        Actually, most planes from that era circulated air front to rear and smoking was always the rear section, and the entire cabin’s air was renovated every 1-3 minutes, so unless you were seated in the row immediately before smoking, you didn’t get smoke.

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          2 months ago

          I hear you, but for some reason I don’t believe you. I grew up in the 80s and never experienced cigs on a plane, but I have a feeling the smoke smell spread further than the seated row before smoking.

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            2 months ago

            As a former smoker, I’m sure you could still snel the smoke.

            But my friend, who is an airline captain, told me the cabins did get better ventilation back in the smoking days.

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            2 months ago

            My first flight that i was ever on was pretty much the last one that still had smokers on them, and the airplane definitely snelled like smoke. I remember my second flight, some guy lit up a cigarette and they explained him that smoking isn’t allowed anymore, and people were like: i fon’t care, let him smoke and shit. Insanity.

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            1 month ago

            Smell yes (as pretty much any enclosed public place, office, etc. of that era). Smoke? not much.

            Source, old enough to have smoked in planes.

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      2 months ago

      One of the last times i was in a restaurant where indoor smoking was still a thing, the waitress asked us if we want to be seated in a smoking or non smoking section. We picked non smoking, because, gross. We were right on the line between smokers and non smokers, and i sat back to back to a guy who chainsmoked when we were eating.