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What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by m-i-l »

cjrp wrote: post #12
ViktorRay wrote: post #8

It's so strange sometimes watching tv shows and movies from the 90's where you see characters smoking indoors in public places. Like in Seinfeld you will have episodes where Kramer is smoking in offices....and even in the doctor's clinic! There was an episode where Kramer took out a cigar and smoked in a doctor's waiting room. I thought he would immediately get in trouble but none of the other characters cared. And t…

Smoking on airplanes is the one that just seemed like an accident waiting to happen. And yet there were (relatively) few incidents caused by cigarettes.

Or smoking a cigar in an oxygen rich spacecraft cabin, as per the opening scene of the original Planet of the Apes (released in Feb 1968, after the Apollo 1 fire in Jan 1967).

Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by phs318u »

black_knight wrote: post #22
cjrp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smoking on airplanes is the one that just seemed like an accident waiting to happen. And yet there were (relatively) few incidents caused by cigarettes.

I heard that air quality on planes was better back then (maybe someone who was alive then can confirm). Because of smoking they had to ventilate the whole aircraft much better. While these days I feel like they are just starving us for oxygen so as to not have to heat up fresh air.

Lol. I was 14 when I took a long distance international flight on a 747 in 1979. The family was sitting in the “non-smoking section”. I can tell you for a fact that the air quality in that plane was terrible. Possibly because a number of passengers in the non-smoking section still deigned to smoke. Whaddaya do eh?

Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by autoexec »

nxm wrote: post #34
markyc wrote: post #10

what will our grand kids be shocked to read about us and our acceptable 'cigarettes'? plastic everywhere social media as news teflon fossil fuel cars sugar/ultra-processed food

Covid vaccines to young and healthy individuals

Thanks for reminding me. Hopefully antivaxxers

Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by phs318u »

silvestrov wrote: post #30
markyc wrote: post #10

what will our grand kids be shocked to read about us and our acceptable 'cigarettes'? plastic everywhere social media as news teflon fossil fuel cars sugar/ultra-processed food

> plastic everywhere. plastic will still be everywhere. The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating bacteria. Look at all the plastic containers etc you have in your kitchen and imagine it's just gone. > social media as news Mainstream news isn't going to get any better. > teflon teflon has gotten a lot better since it was introduced. It…

> Mainstream news isn't going to get any better.

Perhaps. But “social media as news” is definitely going to get a lot worse.

> Teflon ... It will stick around.

Please tell me that was a deliberate choice of words :)

Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by vintermann »

phs318u wrote: post #32
black_knight wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I heard that air quality on planes was better back then (maybe someone who was alive then can confirm). Because of smoking they had to ventilate the whole aircraft much better. While these days I feel like they are just starving us for oxygen so as to not have to heat up fresh air.

Lol. I was 14 when I took a long distance international flight on a 747 in 1979. The family was sitting in the “non-smoking section”. I can tell you for a fact that the air quality in that plane was terrible. Possibly because a number of passengers in the non-smoking section still deigned to smoke. Whaddaya do eh?

There seems to be a door smoker effect to this day, where smokers are drawn to smoke just inside of the areas you aren't supposed to smoke.

Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)

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Post by Vasbarlog »

bramgn wrote: post #13

and yet somehow that world seemed more healthy than today's

If you wear your nostalgia glasses it sure does "seem" more healthy. Life expectancy at birth in the 70s was 70.8. Now it's 79.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/data-finder.htm?&subject=Life%2...

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