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[–] runeko 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Alternately: I remember when everyone on a flight could smoke. The cabin filled with a blueish unbreathable haze. Nobody had personal electronics, and in-flight entertainment was rare, so every child on the plane was continuously crying, whining, or yelling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

No I’m flight entertainment?

They had movies. And like 13 “radio stations” that repeated like every hour, you had to listen to with those weird non-electric head phones they would hand out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ohhhh yeahhh... those headphones that were just tubes the sound traveled down, into your ears. I was too little to understand how they worked then. Thanks for reminding me!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I got so bored once, I put my ear next to the arm rest where the plug was, and realized I could hear the audio. So those headphones were basically like a stethoscope.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And they had these weird things that were like a bunch of pages stuck together ... Oh yeah, books!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nice, this is the first time I'm hearing about this. That sure sounds like a fun bit of trivia

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i remember the no smoking sign would go off, but i don't remember people smoking on flights. but that might be because i had family members who were smokers and people still smoked in restaurants, so maybe i tuned it out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

We smoked everywhere. Grocery stores, hospital rooms, planes, taxis, buses, restaurants – no place was off limits, and there were barely any designated smoking sections. Everyone smoked, even if they didn’t, because it was literally everywhere.

Go back far enough and people who didn’t smoke often kept cigarettes and ashtrays for guests because it was a polite thing to do for company.

It’s one of the biggest (and lesser acknowledged) cultural shifts we’ve seen over the last several decades.