Only if you're a woman!

Every Saturday, when I was 12. I used to walk in the bank, withdraw money from my dad's account, buy his cigarettes, and place bet for gramps in the bookies. All just by carrying his bank book.

And smoke a cigarettes right there at the gate.

This is still perfectly legal in most places. Just not on the interstate.

When I was in college, in the 90s, we smoked right inside the buildings. Didn't even have to go outside... I've quit, since then, and I could not live in a smoke friendly environnement. Nasty.

When I was in school in the 2000 the teachers had a break area where they could smoke.

Smoking EVERYWHERE school, hospital, plane, restaurant....

and no one was upset about it. it always amused me how in restaurants and airplanes you had to walk through the smoking section to get to the non-smoking

I'm old enough to remember going to see the doctor and he would offer you a cigarette as he was lighting one up.

In the early 2000's, at my sixth form college there was a smoking hut on the grounds. At that time cigarettes could be bought legally by kids at the age of 16. Now the legal age to purchase any tobacco products is 18 in the UK so I think they shut it down.

There was a smoking hall for the seniors when I was in high school.

Mine too.

Yep. Our smoking area was called the Snake Pit. No idea why. It was basically a big sandbox, and you had to be in it to smoke. Behind the Arts wing, and the kilns, was where the stoners got high.

Yeah, we had a lounge for seniors where we could smoke. But, if anyone in any other grade was caught smoking on school property, they would get in trouble.

Now kids just vape in the bathrooms mostly but I remember in high school kids would also just vape in class or walking down the hall

I am a boomer. We had the largest class sizes our school had ever dealt with. So many of us were caught smoking that they gave up and designated 2 bathrooms and several outdoor spaces for smoking. What a proud achievement! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

We smoked in college class in the early 80's. My professor was a chain smoker. Ash trays built into the arms of the theater style desk chairs.

I remember the end-of-school year walls scrub done by the janitors in the smoking room. Amazing, to see the difference between smoke-stained and clean walls!

why does that cig have no filter

Not gonna advocate for coke 😆 but I need a kick this am too

This needs to be voted higher. Pollution is down to about 1% of the level that it was in the 1970s, in most countries of the world. Anti-pollution legislation is made tighter and tighter every five years or even more often than that. "On June 22, 1969, an oil slick caught fire on the Cuyahoga River just southeast of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The image that the "the river caught fire" motivated change to protect the environment", throughout the world.

While not illegal, it is greatly frowned upon, and doing this can get the cops and or CPS called on you. What is interesting is kids are actually safer than ever and there are a lot less incidents of being kidnapped by a stranger. What happened is the Internet. What would have been local news, now is national news thanks to the ability to share news on a much larger scale. Now people know about everything that happens, and it makes it feel that things are less safe, so the pendulum swung to being overcautious. I am a xenial (a sub generation between 1977-1983) and I grew up watching shows like Americas Most Wanted which had a lot of Kidnappers because the creator's sin was kidnapped, Adam Walsh. We watched the Polly Klaas kidnapping happen in real time, and missing kids faces were plastered on milk cartons. Being kidnapped was a very real threat to us, even though rare, and it has greatly effected the way we raised the next generations.

Very much an American thing.

Damn terrorists ruining it for the rest of us. 😠

Still have them here in Germany (With age restriction systems)

still normal and legal here.

When every member of the family had to work long hours in factories mothers had no choice but to dose their babies to keep them asleep while they were away.

This is misleading given Romeo was 16, so it was teenager marrying teenager

Not sure if most people know what is this post about. one-night-...1a6a5b.jpg

My gym teacher slapped me across my face when I was 13 because I wouldn't do one exercise. I couldn't say why, so she slapped me. The truth was that I was supposed to do that exercise with a boy who repeatedly assaulted me and I didn't want to be nowhere near him. It was in '80s so no one did anything, sadly. And those things never go away, not even when you are an adult.

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Unfortunately it is still legal in too many countries.

Non-public executions are no better.

Still happening in many parts of the world.

Driving while talking on the phone? Good thing no one does THAT anymore. 😱

And some seem to make it to president after.

But we all know what country you’re from.

Probably the same type of people who make fun of you for getting a Covid vaccine.

70's . . . . 😱 . . . . and streaking.

still legal here as long as it is not causing a nuisance or hazard.

And trains, buses, in cars with kids, hospitals, restaurants, g'ment buildings, the doctor's office - and the doctor smoked, schools, almost every workplace basically, everywhere - there were very few 'off limit' places at all.

Still legal in most places that serve alcohol but not food.

Driving drunk was never legal. More rigorous laws and heavier punishments have been put in place as technology and understanding has improved. Remember the old (now removed) Monopoly Chance card "drunk in charge"? In charge of a motor vehicle, is what it meant.