It’s crazy to me to think how smoking used to be allowed pretty much everywhere.

I’m too young to remember people able to smoke in stores and such, but they did used to allow it.

I can however recall restaurants allowing people to smoke cigarettes inside, and the waiter or waitress would ask if you needed smoking or non smoking. Not that it mattered much as the smoke smell traveled. Also, I remember when fast food places like Arby’s and Hardee’s at least, maybe among others , would put small ash trays on the tables.

Not sure when restaurants stopped allowing cigarettes, but it’s crazy to think it happened in my life time and I’m certainly glad that practice is no longer allowed.

I ever remember seeing once, behind the desk of my teacher in kindergarten, was a large seashell that had cigarettes in it. I remember sometimes the room would smell faintly of cigarettes like somebody had smoked in there. 😲

One thrift store that I like to go to here frequently, unfortunately does smell like cigarettes inside sometimes. I do see tables in back with ash trays and employees smoking, so I wonder if some of them are also smoking inside the store, when there are no customers. 🤔 it’s annoying as I have a hard time getting that smell out of my nose/memory when I smell it.

I think cigarette smoking has gotten a lot less common these days, but I still see a lot of cigarettes thrown in parking lots and sidewalks, and I even see on occasion cigarettes thrown on the floor inside of store entrances and such. Gross!

No offense to anyone that does smoking, I just personally find the smell awful and I’m actually allergic to the cigarette smoke fumes.

Yeah, in Canada as well it's pretty taboo now to smoke indoors. I think most forms of indoor smoking were banned here early on in the mid 90s as I could only remember it being commonplace to smoke in places like bars, restaurants, casinos, hotels, etc in the 2000s.

Back then some restaurants with have a segregated ventilated room for the smoking section, which was better than just having one big room with a smoking section. I also remember you had to specify you wanted a non smoking room when booking a hotel or sometimes they would give you a smoking room instead. Now it seems most hotels are fully non smoking.

Anyway by the mid 2000s, smoking inside those other indoor spaces were banned as well, with pretty much all indoor smoking in public places banned.

Cars would used to come with a 12v cigarette lighter and a metal slide out ashtray. The ashtrays are long gone but the 12v sockets have been repurposed for powering auxiliary devices in vehicles. 

I think smoking cigarettes has gotten less common for sure, younger generations seem to prefer smoking cannabis, or vaping from what I could tell.

Yup by the mid to late 90s indoor smoking was pretty much gone.  Having grown up in the 80s and 90s I recall flights and restaurants and all other kinds of places indoors that allowed smoking.  To be honest, I didn't mind the smell of a good cigarette.  Some of them smelled kind of nice, but most of the cheapies smelled like crap. 

Oh yeah, i lived through it as a non-smoker. Disgusting. One of the worst things was when the non-smoking sections of trains were over capacity in rush hour and you had to move to a smoking section, which was obviously also very busy. Dozens of people smoking in one train car on a rainy day was awful.

We once got an upgrade to first class on a plane when my brother had a lung condition and we were seated right next to a smoker. In 1st class there apparently was some more non-smoking seating, so that's what we got. That was late 90s i think.

There was or potentially is one hold out café in Amsterdam that runs on volunteers that allows smoking, because a significant number of volunteers smoke. Sadly one of the few fun ones i actually enjoy being at. But after a night there i'd immediately jump in the shower afterwards to wash my hair twice and throw all my clothes in the laundry, and i'd still notice a faint stale smoke aroma sticking to myself.

I finally have my own house, but i've visited some other ones before getting this one - and if there's been a smoker in the house, even after stripping off all the wallpaper, you still have that dirty smell lingering.

People who want tobacco, should just vape the dry tobacco. No additives, no combustion, way less smell.

Fresh tobacco smells absolutely lovely, i love walking into a tobacco shop for that reason, but once burnt it becomes the devil's halitosis itself. 

Yes seems like a lot of the people vaping now. Vaping does leave a chemical odor in the air, not sure if it remains like cigarette smoke. However, I can smell it in traffic and around sidewalks where people are doing it, and it seems to irritate my throat as cigarette smoke does.

One smoking that seems to actually be allowed indoors these days is cigar smoking. There are these new “lounges” where people sit in leather couches and smoke cigars while drinking scotch.

I don’t understand the appeal of this at all, but it seems to be some new fad that people like to do to relax. Again I don’t understand it, and I don’t understand why cigarettes are frowned upon, but cigars aren’t.

One of my neighbors used to sit on his screened back porch and smoke cigars, and I remember the smell of the smoke was terrible, in my opinion, it smelled worse than cigarettes.

The cigars do smell nice, when they aren’t lit, however. But any burning tobacco smells repulsive to me. 🫤

I work at a high school - vape clouds are gone in seconds. They are no less or more irritating than the fog machines at concert venues. Glycerine and/or propylene glycol, both body safe substances when bought from a reputable vendor.

I do still think that they leave a residue on surfaces or something, because I can smell it. Secondhand vape cloud inhalation can still be a health concern, not so much as tobacco smoke though.

My second cousin's late husband used to smoke cigar and when I get letter from her, I can smell it.

 Around here , vaping is illegal inside public buildings and even some outdoor venues/locations . 

Awww lucky @wide-lite 1000, at school the bathrooms are always hazy.

It’s prohibited here as well,  but I imagine a lot of kids are doing it in bathrooms. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.

 Got to watch an IDIOT woman get escorted out of Kroger awhile ago for vaping in the store . Genius had the smoke set at max and was just walking thru the store blowing giant clouds at the ceiling !!    Security found her and escorted her from the store .

That's wild.

 As I said , she was an IDIOT !!! 

Its sad to see people vaping in high school-

I was on the bus once and I could smell this very not-appealing chemical like smell that seemed to be trying to be like strawberries, so I looked up and I saw a few seats down a cloud of like vape rising...