And just like that, everything and every place (and I mean EVERYTHING and EVERY place) finally began to stop reaking like cigarette smoke. It took about 5 years for the stink to mostly dissolve from every room in every building, every car and every inch of cloth and upholstery in the country. Yeah, it was that bad.
This is incredible to see, as someone born in the late nineties. I had no idea you used to be able to smoke inside so many places... it's crazy how times change
I remember in '86 smokers and nonsmokers all in one lunchroom. Being a nonsmoker I thought this just isn't right. One pregnant employee assembled herself a cubicle and most thought her accesive and too eccentric. Lol.. How times have changed!
I was born in 1993. I started an apprenticeship as a nurse when I was 18. In vocational school only 3 out of 20 people did not smoke. Everyone else had to smoke during every break.
What's crazy is that this story talks about the growing momentum for anti-smoking regulation but it was still somewhat slow moving even after this. I can remember going to hockey games a few years after this where there was a smoking section in the rink. And in Nova Scotia smoking was only banned in bars in 2002 and I think they were ahead of many other provinces in doing it. As someone who turned 19 in 2001, I fully applauded the ban as the amount of smoking was gross (and was probably FAR worse in years past) but I guess there's a small part of me that "appreciates" the history of having lived through it.
There was a period where they drew a line in the office, smokers one side, non the other. In a very large Bell office, they put a chain smoker next to a staunch not job anti smoker with the line between their desks. The nut job pretty soon took a fire extinguisher to the smoker. Lots of charges for many to go around after. I think this was one of the cases that help push the total ban in the workplace.
@@Yetaxa Let's be TOTALLY CLEAR. That was allowed back then. Don't confuse your personal prejudices with facts. The smoker did nothing wrong! Do not try to apply today's standards with what was allowed yesterday. As an example, weed was very illegal for many many years, but no longer.
@@Retrontarioin small bars of Denmark and Portugal is allowed indoors and un many German states. Just telling about the developed world. In Japan is not strange in izakaya or in smoking rooms inside buildings. Yes, in 2023. Anglosaxons believe they are the center of the world.
When I tell people that there was a time (pre-1995) when I’d see a dedicated janitor who swept up cigarette butts into a little flapped container in the Eatons Centre, they look at me like I’m crazy. THAT’S how long it’s been since smoking was in vogue.
It's funny you mentioned that. Some places still have a person pick up butts. I was a porter for a Mercedes dealership. I was asked many times to pick up buts with some long pinchers. Yep, everyone who worked at that dealership smoked. This was 2014!
Sadly where I come from 1/3 of the population still smokes. Even though it's not allowed to smoke at train stations, people do it anyway. There are a lot of cigarette butts on the floor, in every hole in the wall and so on.
I find it amusing in this report how they’re comparing the hardships of smokers to for example being black in the south in the early-mid 1900s. I enjoy my alcohol a lot but do you see me whine and cry when I can’t have a shot of Rum at work?…. Nope. In 1982 when my Sister was born my Dad said you were allowed to smoke in Hospital rooms. I made a promise to my Grandma when I was a kid that I would never smoke tobacco as both my parents smoked. It’s now 25 years later and she’s still proud of me. I love the current laws as tobacco smells like feces in my opinion.
I don't because its a restriction of freedom, you can tell because they haven't stopped and are now trying to eradicate even vaping and pipe smoking which aren't harmful to health when done properly.
"doesn't this all seem so crazy it was ever allowed for so long?" Absolutely not. Lobbies had, have and will have power on their favorite politicians/puppets. Their motto is "We must save profits not lives". Check what's happenin' to Steve Donziger.
What was crazy is how some restaurants would put the smoking section up front, where everyone was forced to walk through the cloud even if they didn’t smoke. That’s why I stopped smoking in Wendy’s on my lunch break… I felt guilty enough, sitting up by the counter with a cigarette, after just one day smoking inside after the requirement. And you know what? Cheeseburgers taste better without tar in your mouth.
My Mum tells of how in Saskatchewan during the 70's at the high school she attended students could smoke in the cafeteria and that you couldn't see for all the smoke. She wasn't a smoker herself but sounds like one would make up for it via second hand!
it was disgusting , selfish and normalized by the government to make them filthy rich. Unknown numbers were killed off by the 'habit' and others suffered chronic symptoms by being exposed to the toxic clouds that never went away.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 I've seen videos of former flight attendants who have health problems because although they weren't smokers you could smoke on a plane back in the day and of course they got it secondhand.
And then in the 90s after the bans the film industry started advertising in the movies, showing packets around sex scenes, getting the sexiest/main characters to smoke and make it look as sexy as possible, especially young female actors e.g. Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, Jude Law in Blade Runner etc. etc. and boom smoking became cool/fashionable again, especially among young girls and young women.
Hindsight is 20/20. It's so easy for us to judge, but remember there was a time when smoking was EMBRACED and even ENCOURAGED. There was a time when there were more people who smoked than didn't. Interesting look back for sure. I remember my parents having uncomfortable conversations with friends and relatives about no longer smoking in the house.
I always recall a rough statistic that puts it into perspective for me. In 1960, about 60% of the American population smoked. 6 out of 10 and I can't wrap my head around that today.
now, government refuses to ban the sale of tobacco outright for two reasons. One, that would anger the Indians selling their products on the reserves and Two, they are still addicted to the taxes. You know they are addicted to the taxes because governments are severely restricting 95% safer PG/VG Vaping products which have proven to be the most effective means of getting off tobacco permanently and vape produces only suffer from regular sales taxes.
In what world does the federal or any provincial government give a wet fart about Indian tobacco sales? That's crazy. They don't even care whether reserves have clean water.
it's only about taxes and control / eugenics. there are multiple tools they use for that exact same thing now..so they can price tobacco to any price.. and still hook their little mind controlled fish - just like they do with gasoline. All under fraudulent pretense to increase price.. because they have the debt slave population that lives under false pride by the little dried up estrogenic balls.
As well that a sizable portion of the population still does smoke and would not being willing to just give it up, especially if the government tells them too. I myself only smoked for a year before switching to vaping, but I know older smokers would not be so willing. And for the health concerns, a) I don't really think that's the states business beyond the broad strokes, and b) smokers actually cost the system less than non-smokers in health on average as they die younger and don't need expensive end of life care.
I find it hilarious that the smokers are complaining about non-smokers not liking being around them. If you're outdoors, go nuts. I don't care. Indoors? Nah, I don't want to breathe in that crap.
In 1987 I could now walk into a room and breath. This was a nightmare growing up among the hedonistic and selfish smokers which literally were everywhere. Kinda like people with face diapers today. Actually exactly the same..but the face diaper doesn't hurt others.. just the user.
Because people who are against masks are smug. Notice he calls smokers selfish, but then bashes masks and the people who wear them. Ignoring the fact some people need them. My aunt has cancer and is on pill that decrease her immune system. She was wearing a mask before covid even started because even getting a light cold can put her in the hospital. But people like this guy will make fun of her for it smh. Lol people are so strange
@@zach4627 of course you miss the correlation - not my problem - and because people who put masks on children are evil and abusive and people who follow orders from strangers have no concept of reality and will coexist in tyranny and bring others into that delusional fold - but hey that's your choice ! Stay on topic - I'm not talking about the surgen who uses a mask for 20 minutes and then DISCARDS it and walks out of the operating room - nice stretch of an example of your 'auntie' - but you can't even pay attention ... Keep harming yourself - no problem to me. Keep crying like little babies in a youtube comments section - 1984 wasn't an instruction manual you dimwit. But here's big daddy with your baby bottle.. free speech is your paradox! 🍼
@@TerrBerrUK the function it serves for the elite and the aware is a marker - you figure out what you represent to them. And yeah it's free choice and I'm exercising free speech. May God have mercy on you.
And just like that, everything and every place (and I mean EVERYTHING and EVERY place) finally began to stop reaking like cigarette smoke. It took about 5 years for the stink to mostly dissolve from every room in every building, every car and every inch of cloth and upholstery in the country. Yeah, it was that bad.
This is incredible to see, as someone born in the late nineties. I had no idea you used to be able to smoke inside so many places... it's crazy how times change
Bro, before 2020 you could smoke almost everywhere in Japan. Trains, restaurants, hotels and so on. I still love Japanese technology.
@@ERTChimpanzeeno that changed over ten years ago.
@@MrZZsharka Cool then!
As someone born in 1993 I used to smoke in restaurants and places as a teen.
I recall ashtrays in the mall food court
Jesus this is embarrassing. People were really addicts en masse
Still are just replaced with newer addictions
They're alcoholics now
I'm amazed traditional cigarettes are still sold in 2023, this video is 35 years old!
I grew up in the late 80s and 90s and remember when we’d goto dinner being asked “smoking or non?”
And you better had said non-smoking
@@I_WANT_MY_SLAW I said "smoking", what's it to you?
I remember when the smoking ban started.
it was a relief to me as a 12 year old who was massively allergic to nicotine
I remember in '86 smokers and nonsmokers all in one lunchroom. Being a nonsmoker I thought this just isn't right. One pregnant employee assembled herself a cubicle and most thought her accesive and too eccentric. Lol..
How times have changed!
I was born in 1993. I started an apprenticeship as a nurse when I was 18. In vocational school only 3 out of 20 people did not smoke. Everyone else had to smoke during every break.
I remember the Tim Hortons smoking rooms well into the late 90’s.
What's crazy is that this story talks about the growing momentum for anti-smoking regulation but it was still somewhat slow moving even after this. I can remember going to hockey games a few years after this where there was a smoking section in the rink. And in Nova Scotia smoking was only banned in bars in 2002 and I think they were ahead of many other provinces in doing it. As someone who turned 19 in 2001, I fully applauded the ban as the amount of smoking was gross (and was probably FAR worse in years past) but I guess there's a small part of me that "appreciates" the history of having lived through it.
There was a period where they drew a line in the office, smokers one side, non the other. In a very large Bell office, they put a chain smoker next to a staunch not job anti smoker with the line between their desks. The nut job pretty soon took a fire extinguisher to the smoker. Lots of charges for many to go around after. I think this was one of the cases that help push the total ban in the workplace.
The nut job was the guy smoking at his office let's be clear
@@Yetaxa it was the norm and allowed back then. Don't infuse your personal preferences into this.
@@Yetaxa Let's be TOTALLY CLEAR. That was allowed back then. Don't confuse your personal prejudices with facts. The smoker did nothing wrong! Do not try to apply today's standards with what was allowed yesterday. As an example, weed was very illegal for many many years, but no longer.
You can still smoke in most bars/some restaurants in my city
What city?
Assuming that you’re in the United States, there is a good chance that you live in the south.
@@Retrontarioin small bars of Denmark and Portugal is allowed indoors and un many German states. Just telling about the developed world. In Japan is not strange in izakaya or in smoking rooms inside buildings. Yes, in 2023. Anglosaxons believe they are the center of the world.
@@eduzz4655you’re just jealous of them
Good lord people used to smoke everywhere. And nowadays it’s uncommon to find people smoking anywhere.
But we still sell a shit-ton of cigarettes at the store that I work at lol
Yea... but everyone vapes now
When I tell people that there was a time (pre-1995) when I’d see a dedicated janitor who swept up cigarette butts into a little flapped container in the Eatons Centre, they look at me like I’m crazy.
THAT’S how long it’s been since smoking was in vogue.
It's funny you mentioned that. Some places still have a person pick up butts. I was a porter for a Mercedes dealership. I was asked many times to pick up buts with some long pinchers. Yep, everyone who worked at that dealership smoked. This was 2014!
Sadly where I come from 1/3 of the population still smokes. Even though it's not allowed to smoke at train stations, people do it anyway. There are a lot of cigarette butts on the floor, in every hole in the wall and so on.
I find it amusing in this report how they’re comparing the hardships of smokers to for example being black in the south in the early-mid 1900s. I enjoy my alcohol a lot but do you see me whine and cry when I can’t have a shot of Rum at work?…. Nope. In 1982 when my Sister was born my Dad said you were allowed to smoke in Hospital rooms. I made a promise to my Grandma when I was a kid that I would never smoke tobacco as both my parents smoked. It’s now 25 years later and she’s still proud of me. I love the current laws as tobacco smells like feces in my opinion.
I don't because its a restriction of freedom, you can tell because they haven't stopped and are now trying to eradicate even vaping and pipe smoking which aren't harmful to health when done properly.
@@fuwa9616 Vaping’s not all that bad plus the smell is quite pleasant as there’s all kinds of flavours of vape.
@@JotinkoVaping is as bad as smoking. Google please.
"doesn't this all seem so crazy it was ever allowed for so long?"
Absolutely not. Lobbies had, have and will have power on their favorite politicians/puppets. Their motto is "We must save profits not lives".
Check what's happenin' to Steve Donziger.
Funny because smoking bans are the result of lobbies power on their favorite politicians, because none of it was based on science.
Sometimes you still see some mall furniture with an ashtray built into the garbage or tables and it looks so 80s.
Funky anti smokers.
What was crazy is how some restaurants would put the smoking section up front, where everyone was forced to walk through the cloud even if they didn’t smoke. That’s why I stopped smoking in Wendy’s on my lunch break… I felt guilty enough, sitting up by the counter with a cigarette, after just one day smoking inside after the requirement. And you know what? Cheeseburgers taste better without tar in your mouth.
Healthy Wendy's cheeseburgers.
Idiot
Does this apply for Aboriginals?
But pot smokers have become cool these days??? People are insane.
Wait what! Were cool now??? Sweeeeet.
My Mum tells of how in Saskatchewan during the 70's at the high school she attended students could smoke in the cafeteria and that you couldn't see for all the smoke. She wasn't a smoker herself but sounds like one would make up for it via second hand!
it was disgusting , selfish and normalized by the government to make them filthy rich. Unknown numbers were killed off by the 'habit' and others suffered chronic symptoms by being exposed to the toxic clouds that never went away.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 I've seen videos of former flight attendants who have health problems because although they weren't smokers you could smoke on a plane back in the day and of course they got it secondhand.
@@BBC600 :(
And then in the 90s after the bans the film industry started advertising in the movies, showing packets around sex scenes, getting the sexiest/main characters to smoke and make it look as sexy as possible, especially young female actors e.g. Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, Jude Law in Blade Runner etc. etc. and boom smoking became cool/fashionable again, especially among young girls and young women.
This reporting is wild! They clearly weren’t taking a stance on the matter, not at all lmao
Hindsight is 20/20. It's so easy for us to judge, but remember there was a time when smoking was EMBRACED and even ENCOURAGED. There was a time when there were more people who smoked than didn't. Interesting look back for sure. I remember my parents having uncomfortable conversations with friends and relatives about no longer smoking in the house.
Wow (uncomfortable conversations about no smoking)
I always recall a rough statistic that puts it into perspective for me. In 1960, about 60% of the American population smoked. 6 out of 10 and I can't wrap my head around that today.
2002 was the cut off in Florida
But unless the local jurisdiction bans it, you can still smoke in bars in Florida.
now, government refuses to ban the sale of tobacco outright for two reasons. One, that would anger the Indians selling their products on the reserves and Two, they are still addicted to the taxes. You know they are addicted to the taxes because governments are severely restricting 95% safer PG/VG Vaping products which have proven to be the most effective means of getting off tobacco permanently and vape produces only suffer from regular sales taxes.
In what world does the federal or any provincial government give a wet fart about Indian tobacco sales? That's crazy. They don't even care whether reserves have clean water.
it's only about taxes and control / eugenics. there are multiple tools they use for that exact same thing now..so they can price tobacco to any price.. and still hook their little mind controlled fish - just like they do with gasoline. All under fraudulent pretense to increase price.. because they have the debt slave population that lives under false pride by the little dried up estrogenic balls.
@@Barnaclebeard Maybe the corrupt chiefs should stop hording all the millions they get sent and hire some decent plumbers to take care of that issue.
Natives have their own laws, you just go to the rez and buy direct like the old days
As well that a sizable portion of the population still does smoke and would not being willing to just give it up, especially if the government tells them too. I myself only smoked for a year before switching to vaping, but I know older smokers would not be so willing.
And for the health concerns, a) I don't really think that's the states business beyond the broad strokes, and b) smokers actually cost the system less than non-smokers in health on average as they die younger and don't need expensive end of life care.
You could also buy smokes in Canada at the corner store,any if you were 8 years old. I use to buy a carton of smokes for $4.99.
Thank god i was born after this ban was imposed in aircrafts
Umm. Got no choice. I guess
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I find it hilarious that the smokers are complaining about non-smokers not liking being around them. If you're outdoors, go nuts. I don't care. Indoors? Nah, I don't want to breathe in that crap.
In 1987 I could now walk into a room and breath. This was a nightmare growing up among the hedonistic and selfish smokers which literally were everywhere. Kinda like people with face diapers today. Actually exactly the same..but the face diaper doesn't hurt others.. just the user.
Because people who are against masks are smug. Notice he calls smokers selfish, but then bashes masks and the people who wear them. Ignoring the fact some people need them. My aunt has cancer and is on pill that decrease her immune system. She was wearing a mask before covid even started because even getting a light cold can put her in the hospital. But people like this guy will make fun of her for it smh. Lol people are so strange
@@zach4627 of course you miss the correlation - not my problem - and because people who put masks on children are evil and abusive and people who follow orders from strangers have no concept of reality and will coexist in tyranny and bring others into that delusional fold - but hey that's your choice ! Stay on topic - I'm not talking about the surgen who uses a mask for 20 minutes and then DISCARDS it and walks out of the operating room - nice stretch of an example of your 'auntie' - but you can't even pay attention ... Keep harming yourself - no problem to me. Keep crying like little babies in a youtube comments section - 1984 wasn't an instruction manual you dimwit. But here's big daddy with your baby bottle.. free speech is your paradox! 🍼
@@TerrBerrUK the function it serves for the elite and the aware is a marker - you figure out what you represent to them. And yeah it's free choice and I'm exercising free speech. May God have mercy on you.
@@TerrBerrUK I think that overall mask are a good thing and should be accepted now even after mandates are being lifted.
@@TerrBerrUK lol
I remember when you could smoke in aircraft and in hospitals, doctors surgeries, every where.