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There are certain places I actually miss cigarette smell in. Most importantly, bowling alleys. They just aren't the same anymore. It was part of the ambiance.

Friends and I love to dance to live music, and back in the day this was often in a local bar, where people were drinking and smoking. It was policy to remove our clothing outside to let it 'air out' rather than bring that smoke smell into the house. Of course we were all dancing HARD, in a smoke filled rooms. I wondered if I was in training to be a fire fighter, or what?

It's still this way in the place where I live 😖

I hate nicotine so fucking much

I remember going into cafés and things when I was a young man about 14 years old… You wouldn’t be able to see across a small room for the sheer fog bank of cigarette smoke.

We didn’t think anything of it

Experienced this when I went to Barcelona a few years back. Lovely city, but stepping out into the street felt like stepping into a cigar bar.

You used to be able to light the rivers on fire too but Nixon helped ruin that.

I wonder if our current world has a specific smell that people from the 80s would notice