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Thread ID: 116678 2011-03-15 10:00:00 New Zealand Smoke free in 14 Years Bobh (5192) PC World Chat
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1186450 2011-03-17 03:24:00 Probably didn't have half the chemicals in smokes as they do now? Tasha (16262)
1186451 2011-03-17 03:55:00 Probably didn't have half the chemicals in smokes as they do now?

Probably not much different, but if raised in the UK Midlands, or any big city, by the age of around 14 when one took the first illicit puff, one's lungs were already well coated and protected by years of industrial smoke and winter pea-souper smogs, and scarred by annual bouts of winter bronchitis and whooping cough. Amazing really how we survived, no anti-biotics either.

Yet these days everyone runs screaming at the very word asbestos :thumbs:

Down at the local snooker hall it was difficult to see the cush at the other end of the table.....:clap
Terry Porritt (14)
1186452 2011-03-17 04:03:00 I remember losing my girl friend in the dark this way once, and didn't find her until the lights went up.

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I thought you were going to say, you have yet to find her.:clap
Cicero (40)
1186453 2011-03-17 04:26:00 When we did get in it would be half way through the main picture, having stumbled through the dark to find a seat vaguely pointed out by an usherette waving her torch, so first of all we saw the ending, and then had to sit through the 'B' picture, the cartoons, Pathe News, ads, then see the beginning of the main film before getting up and going out half way through.
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Whilst of an age to be at secondary school, on Saturday afternoon after lunch, I used to go down to the "Pictures" and get in as the main film started, watch that and the B Movie, Then change to a totally different part of the cinema and watch the main film all over again. The bonus was there were very few smokers in at that time of the day.

Then they tried to introduce non-smoking areas - fat lot of difference that made! :angry. For years I refused to go up into the Circle 'cos it was even more concentrated up there!
tuiruru (12277)
1186454 2011-03-17 04:32:00 Whilst of an age to be at secondary school, on Saturday afternoon after lunch, I used to go down to the "Pictures" and get in as the main film started, watch that and the B Movie, Then change to a totally different part of the cinema and watch the main film all over again. The bonus was there were very few smokers in at that time of the day.

Then they tried to introduce non-smoking areas - fat lot of difference that made! :angry. For years I refused to go up into the Circle 'cos it was even more concentrated up there!

Must have been just awful for you.:crying

Terry and I were accepting of the reality of the day.
Cicero (40)
1186455 2011-03-17 04:36:00 Probably not much different, but if raised in the UK Midlands, or any big city, by the age of around 14 when one took the first illicit puff, one's lungs were already well coated and protected by years of industrial smoke and winter pea-souper smogs, and scarred by annual bouts of winter bronchitis and whooping cough. Amazing really how we survived, no anti-biotics either.

Yet these days everyone runs screaming at the very word asbestos :thumbs:

Down at the local snooker hall it was difficult to see the cush at the other end of the table.....:clap
Must have been dangerous with people smoking in the dark did they have any movie theatres in poverty rock burn down with people in them?
prefect (6291)
1186456 2011-03-17 04:41:00 Must have been just awful for you.:crying

Terry and I were accepting of the reality of the day.

I got a good dose of carcinogenic fugg at home. Both my parents smoked, and as they got to "that age", both my brothers took it up. Day trips to "the coast" with the car windows shut tight were a nightmare!
tuiruru (12277)
1186457 2011-03-17 05:01:00 I got a good dose of carcinogenic fugg at home. Both my parents smoked, and as they got to "that age", both my brothers took it up. Day trips to "the coast" with the car windows shut tight were a nightmare!

That is so awful.:crying

You could be dead by now, some parents
Cicero (40)
1186458 2011-03-17 05:04:00 When i am out and about and notice a hot bird, as you do , generally they are smoking. Why do all the hot ones smoke?

'cause their smokin'! hahahahaha
rob_on_guitar (4196)
1186459 2011-03-17 05:11:00 'cause their smokin'! hahahahaha
:D :D Nice one Rob!
tuiruru (12277)
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