How many cancer sticks have you smoked in your lifetime?

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by frazod

It was easier to smoke more back in the day. People watch Mad Men or similar shows and think it's funny that everybody was smoking, but that's the way it was up until a little over 20 years ago. I'd probably go through two or three an hour at work, although they mostly burned away in the ash tray while I was working. The first smoking restrictions I encountered were in '89, when the admiral at Great Lakes imposed a work space ban and decreed that we'd have to go use a converted men's room in the basement as a lounge (God, was I pissed ). I could still smoke at my desk when I got my first civilian job in '90, and that didn't change until a couple of years later.

Instead of end caps at grocery stores, they had ashtrays. There were ashtrays in hospital and doctor office waiting rooms. I had a doctor that chain-smoked and just flicked his ashes into the examination room sink.