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I used to work at a dairy and it was expected that you would have a couple of pints in the pub at lunchtime.
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durhamplumber
Same here,both parents smoked,always as a duo...I would be boloked for sitting with a cushion over my face!!...Couldn’t stand the eye stinging smoke...A lass once kissed me after taking a drag on a fag,,,honestly thought I was going to vomit on her...Why the hell kids start now is beyond me.
Correct. Watching re-runs of banal T.V. dramas or sit-coms and seeing them include smoking into the dialogue, is trés bizarre.
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durhamplumber
Indeed..Was the norm to smoke in 40s..50s...health benefits promoted...Advertised everywhere....Bit like tats now...Everyone thinks its normal to be covered in the hideous things.And the Trout pout...slug eyebrows...young lasses looking bloody deformed is the norm.
I personally think those that are splattered in them, look ridiculous.
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sodthisforfun
Yep. I had a tat when I was 17 - to go with my full-on alternative look (mohawk etc). I thought I was so rebellious but I enjoyed being different, peeing off my dad etc. Happy times! Now tats are as common as muck
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durhamplumber
Indeed....Rebellious not to have a 1 now.Yep. I had a tat when I was 17 - to go with my full-on alternative look (mohawk etc). I thought I was so rebellious but I enjoyed being different, peeing off my dad etc. Happy times! Now tats are as common as muck
A girl at uni asked me if I regretted my tattoo.
"If all I have to ever regret is a tattoo, I'll have a great life!" was my reply.
"If all I have to ever regret is a tattoo, I'll have a great life!" was my reply.
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Some where around 1975 the government increased the tax on cigarettes so they went up to 50p per packet of 20 Number 6 king size, same for St Moritz that my wife smoked, I was around 25 a day, she was around the 15 a day, so £7 per week for fags, and my wages were around the £20 a week bring home, so it was a fair hunk of my income. She said "I'm giving up, we can't afford them." and I said "I'll give up with you." not for one minute thinking it would last longer than a week, but no way was I letting a woman beat me, so she never restarted, and around 1980 in a Bar I was given a Hoggar fag, I had a couple of drags, and put it out, with the comment how did I ever smoke these, and from that point I have never had a desire to smoke.
However I know as an ex smoker how easy it is to delay smoking a fag, I am not saying it is easy to give up, but you don't need to smoke a fag now, you can easy delay it an hour or two before you light up, so I see smoking as anti-social, yes some times the rules seem daft, the driver of the heritage train loco can't smoke now, have you seen the amount of smoke it makes burning coal? But since around 2000 finding anywhere where you can smoke at work has become hard, well before that I had many jobs where smoking was totally banned, normally because of the dangers of setting alight gas, a gas explosion is dangerous to ones health, forget cancer that's really slow in comparison, and if you have ever dropped a fag in your shoe while driving you also know the dangers.
I really felt sorry for local pub when the smoking ban came in, that pub had for years had a total ban on smoking in the Pub, and it was full of people who didn't like the smell of cigarette smoke, people travelled a long way to use that pub, then all of a sudden every pub was the same, so he lost most of his trade. All pubs have become brighter as once decorated the walls don't all become the same brown colour.
However what I object to, is a gathering of smokers around an entrance, before the ban there were smoke huts, where smokers went keeping them away from others, but since the ban these have gone, so you get a gathering of smokers, worst is the hospital, there is a total ban within the hospital grounds, however smokers gather at the entrance and one is forced to walk through a barrage of smoke, it may be outside, but worse than any pub was, and they don't ever seem to get told off for doing it.
However I know as an ex smoker how easy it is to delay smoking a fag, I am not saying it is easy to give up, but you don't need to smoke a fag now, you can easy delay it an hour or two before you light up, so I see smoking as anti-social, yes some times the rules seem daft, the driver of the heritage train loco can't smoke now, have you seen the amount of smoke it makes burning coal? But since around 2000 finding anywhere where you can smoke at work has become hard, well before that I had many jobs where smoking was totally banned, normally because of the dangers of setting alight gas, a gas explosion is dangerous to ones health, forget cancer that's really slow in comparison, and if you have ever dropped a fag in your shoe while driving you also know the dangers.
I really felt sorry for local pub when the smoking ban came in, that pub had for years had a total ban on smoking in the Pub, and it was full of people who didn't like the smell of cigarette smoke, people travelled a long way to use that pub, then all of a sudden every pub was the same, so he lost most of his trade. All pubs have become brighter as once decorated the walls don't all become the same brown colour.
However what I object to, is a gathering of smokers around an entrance, before the ban there were smoke huts, where smokers went keeping them away from others, but since the ban these have gone, so you get a gathering of smokers, worst is the hospital, there is a total ban within the hospital grounds, however smokers gather at the entrance and one is forced to walk through a barrage of smoke, it may be outside, but worse than any pub was, and they don't ever seem to get told off for doing it.
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EddieM
Even as a smoker I welcomed the smoking ban in pubs, I always thought folk should have the choice as to what they breathe in rather than someone else making them breath second-hand smoke.
Do you regret it?
Tatto removal is big business and has grown massively along side the gullible.
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durhamplumber
Bizzare how aeroplanes,cinema..etc..the norm was to smoke...Things and perceptions do change....slowly.
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EddieM
Yes, I am heartened by the decline in youth smoking.
