• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yep. The 80’s were absolutely horrible if you were bothered by smoke. There’s a reason why a lot of us 80’s kids “had asthma”, which magically disappeared when everything went non-smoking in the 90’s.

    Smoking was just so pervasive here in Europe in the 80’s, it’s impossible for people to understand if you didn’t experience it first hand.

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      3 months ago

      Like, even teachers smoked. Not in lessons, but if they were out in the playground supervising, or in the staff room, they’d light up.

      My headteacher had a pipe. I think it was about the only thing that kept him going, right up until the cancer got him.

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        3 months ago

        Also in lessons. I had a teacher that would open the outside door of the classroom (leading to a garden) to stand there smoking. Not that it helped because we still got a good whiff of the smoke.

        This was around 1995 probably.

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          3 months ago

          Mine thought that opening a small window in the class would suffice, and was smoking the whole time.

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      3 months ago

      Part of the reason kids have asthma from that era, myself included, is because our mothers smoked while pregnant.

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      3 months ago

      disappeared when everything went non-smoking in the 90’s.

      Funny, in Russia that transition happened around late 00s.

      A-and in 2014 entrance to my (then) uni territory still looked like one big stinking cloud of smoke and a barely visible group of students smoking just outside, some coming, some leaving.