Bar Owners May Turn Tables On Smoking Ban Lawmakers

[AlphaFrog]

I'm not a smoker, and I've lived in states with smoking bans long enough that I don't even think about it anymore. It's funny, though, because my kids were watching an old TV show (Chavo) and there was a guy smoking in a restaurant, and my kids flipped, "That guy is SMOKING in a RESTAURANT...you can't do that!". After they pointed it out, it did seem strange to see.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I'm not a smoker, and I've lived in states with smoking bans long enough that I don't even think about it anymore. It's funny, though, because my kids were watching an old TV show (Chavo) and there was a guy smoking in a restaurant, and my kids flipped, "That guy is SMOKING in a RESTAURANT...you can't do that!". After they pointed it out, it did seem strange to see.

I love watching the old movies and the old tv shows (as in Perry Mason) .. but am always stuck by how everyone is smoking!

[carnation]

It shocks me now, but remember what it was like then? Most of the adults I knew smoked and there were candy cigarettes for kids and ads on TV (even from the Flintstones!) and the radio and...idk, it was just what adults did. Until the Surgeon General's report came out in the early sixties...

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by carnation

It shocks me now, but remember what it was like then? Most of the adults I knew smoked and there were candy cigarettes for kids and ads on TV (even from the Flintstones!) and the radio and...idk, it was just what adults did. Until the Surgeon General's report came out in the early sixties...

Yep, cultural shifts. Most images showed everyone smiling and having fun with cigarettes or cigars or pipes. Then as you got into the 1970s-1980s, there were less smiles and more images of people frowning or stressed out and smoking. I specifically recall images of stressed out employees running to the side of the building so they can frown, complain, and smoke together. My favorite anti-smoking advertisement from that time was of a stressed out person smoking in the rain while his happy co-workers were inside eating lunch together.

My siblings and I loved those candy cigarettes. But, it was horrible imagery for kids. It's like Big League Chew, that bag of chewing gum that mirrored chewing tobacco. I used to love that gum.