Indoor Smoking Was So Glamorous

0/10 for that CUNT Sarandon.

SMOKE

Yes it was.

It really was and there still has been no reputable scientific study proving damage caused by second hand smoke. It’s all ridiculous. Like peanut and gluten allergies and Me Too.

Just ask Tex Williams:

I need my smokes!

You always have the right to smoke outside. No big deal.

R1 But the picture also shows the lovely and talented Catherine Deneuve. That should automatically add several points.

Who is the brunette behind Bowie?

If only Deneuve had stubbed out her cigarette in that bitch's eye, r8.

You know the reason you're not allowed to blow smoke on someone is the same reason you're not allowed to piss on them, right? Actually, piss would be less harmful, as it's pretty sterile, but you get the idea.

^^^^ MARY!

Cigarette holders were glamorous.

R13 - Tell me about it, Daaahrling!

I'm glad that you can't. I'm glad that I can go out and not have to breathe that shit.

This is why Michael Bloomberg will never be president.

Sooo glamorous.

Ohmygawd!

Indoor smoking was so much fun. Adults all enjoying themselves like adults!

I no longer smoke but I enjoyed it.

[quote]I wish we as smokers still had rights, and places to go where we could to smoke.

You can all meet at chemo.

Yeah, indoor smoking was really glamorous, unless you weren’t a smoker. For us it was like incessantly smelling bologna farts by people with fucking awful breath.

Everyone in OP's picture looks like they're having a really great time.

Bowie’s thought to have died of lung cancer that spread to his liver, and he had multiple heart attacks before that, so that adds a little extra zing to OP’s picture too.

Fabulous.

there is a place where you can smoke, it's in your own home, where you're only endangering your own health

[quote]It really was and there still has been no reputable scientific study proving damage caused by second hand smoke. It’s all ridiculous. Like peanut and gluten allergies and Me Too.

Have they done studies on losing IQ points when you smoke, because you sure as hell aren't doing anything to disprove it with this bullshit. Peanut and gluten allergies ARE real. Just like soy being in everything is in fact causing hormonal changes in children.

And whether or not you believe second hand smoke harms, makes no difference. It fucking stinks. The smell is horrid.

A report from the U.S. Surgeon General’s office said that 2.5 million people died on account of exposure to secondhand smoke from 1964 to 2014. If there’d been a fire in your house that left it permanently smelling like smoke, you probably wouldn’t think “there is absolutely no chance that there is anything unhealthy about this.”

Yes, dear, it was.

OP Bowie died of cancer, Deneuve still smokes and had a heart attack and Sarandon is bugfuck crazy. So much for smoking........

Restaurants and nightclubs were one thing, but what I can't get my head around was that people used to smoke in grocery and department stores.

[quote] Yeah, indoor smoking was really glamorous, unless you weren’t a smoker. For us it was like incessantly smelling bologna farts by people with fucking awful breath.

Amen.

And vaping is worse, to be honest. Now I have to smell someone's vanilla flavored bologna fart breath cloud.

In the first season of Friends (1994), Chandler is shown smoking in the cafe. It looks so strange all these years later.

People were happier (and thinner!) when everyone smoked and drank. Remember three martini lunches? Boss boning the secretary? Everyone was far less stressed.

Never smoked anything, ever.... but I get turned on by seeing a sexy man smoke. My biggest fetish, in fact.

Amazing how it has been fazed out of movies. It used to be such a symbol of sophistication.

Soon you’ll wish you had functioning lungs.

We smoked on airplanes, too, R29.

R30 I never smell anything when people are vaping.

[quote]Who is the brunette behind Bowie?

I wanna know-too!

R15 great but why can't we have it for ourselves?

[quote]Deneuve still smokes and had a heart attack

Are you basing that on the troll thread from the other day? Some of you are too stupid to live.

R22, yet Susan Sarandon and Catherine Denevue are both still alive.

R26

How can a house fire even be compared to a cigarette? I simply don't understand? Do you shriek at incense burning?

[quote] that's your SUBJECTIVE opinion. Some non-smokers don't mind it, and such a trivial qualm should NOT dictate whether smoking establisments exist within a society.

That was my first time quoting, whoops. Here's what I was responding to

[quote] And whether or not you believe second hand smoke harms, makes no difference. It fucking stinks. The smell is horrid.

While my mother was dying in the hospital I chained a pack of Winstons right next to her.

Yes, SUSAN SARANDON'S second hand smoke is the reason David Bowie is dead.

R45 No, you didn't.

Smoking should be eradicated.

[quote]great but why can't we have it for ourselves?

Go ahead. Smoke in your home, in your vehicle, open private clubs where members can smoke to their hearts' content. But keep it away from me. I don't need that shit making me choke, making my eyes burn, and leaving a stink on my clothes and my skin.

R47, Smoking was allowed inside hospitals up through the 70s to maybe the early 80s. I don't remember if it was allowed in patient rooms, but it was allowed in waiting areas. Was a kid at the time, grandparents smoked.

R52 They still had smoking lounges for patients/visitors at least through the 1990s.

There were ashtrays in patient's rooms in the seventies and maybe longer.

It wasn't that long ago in some places. The state I lived in at the time was one of the last to do much to restrict smoking. I remember in the late '90s, at my job at the hospital, there was a lot of groaning about the new policy of no indoor smoking except for patients. People still smoked in groceries and other public places. What sucked though was I had to do my washing at the laundromat, and people would smoke there while doing their laundry. My clean laundry always smelled like cigarette smoke.

Yes, R53. The practice was continued into the 90s in many hospitals in Toronto despite policies which restricted it.

I was in the hospital to have my wisdom teeth out in 1977 and could smoke in my room.

That's why I love American Horror Story, the blatant glamorization of smoking. It's so unlike what we see today. I also love its incorporation in modern setting.

R38, R9 here. Since no one seemed to know I did a little search and a thread on this photo on a Reddit forum had someone saying that it was Margo Martindale. Since the other three had worked on The Hunger I looked at the credits but she is not listed, but she did several movies with Sarandon. I looked at some of her photos, and I think this is she.

We had smoking lounges at school. Of course they were outside. Unless you were a senior. The seniors had a smoking lounge inside. They could also eat their lunch in there while they smoked.

Only trashy people still smoke.

R60, I thought it was his bff and nearly lifelong personal assistant, Coco Schwab. I wish she'd give an in-depth interview for Bowie biographers, because no one including Iman knows more about him than she does. But she'll take it all silently to the grave.

R63, you are probably right. I looked at some photos of her and that seems most likely.

Smoking at home? I wish! If you're a renter, it's being banned everywhere.

R60, I don't see it:

The smell is horrible. Standing in a queue behind a heavy smoker is awful because they stink.

Op’s Pic must be some gathering concerning the very underrated and stylish 1983 vampire movie, ‘The Hunger’, since it has all three of its main stars:

The trailer:

So very glamorous!

Margo Martindale’s film/tv career didn’t even begin till the late 80s, six years after The Hunger filmed. In 82-83, she was hanging out in regional theater. doesnt make senze that she would have been partying with Sarandon, Bowie, and Deneuve back then.

It looks like Coco Schwab to me. Bowie did a lot of things that could have contributed to his death, smoking is only one of them.

[quote]And whether or not you believe second hand smoke harms, makes no difference. It fucking stinks. The smell is horrid.

Can't be said enough times. Je ne give a shit pas about the harm of second hand smoke. It fucking smells as bad as cow farts in a steak factory. And so do you. It is hostile of you to want to share this with the world. Get a fucking smoking helmet and YOU keep breathing it in, you sociopathic piece of shit.

Here’s Coco Schwab. R63 may be correct.

[quote]I never smell anything when people are vaping.

It must depend how much of the shit they put in their little stick. I don't always smell those ridiculous looking fools, but I was stuck at a bus stop recently next to someone who stank like a small Yankee Candle factory.

[quote]great but why can't we have it for ourselves?

Because you DON'T have it for yourselves. If we can see it, we can smell it. And it gives some people headaches and sore throats (regardless of how much harm its ridiculous defenders say it doesn't cause).

Ex-smoker here. Smoking is disgusting and you don't have the right to force non-smokers to inhale your nasty funk. Go outside or go home if it means that much to you.

[quote]Indoor Smoking Was So Glamorous

No it really wasn't. I smoked for almost 20 years and quit 12 years ago. I'm so glad I was finally able to kick the habit.

R78 I agree. Smoking was just packaged to look that way. Beautiful glamourous people were often shown smoking, but that wasn't why they were glamourous. Bowie and Deneuve were born in an age and enviroment where nearly everyone smoked, maybe their parents smoked in front of them or even the mothers smoked when pregnant. Perhaps they might have chosen not to smoke themselves if they were growing up today.

[quote]I wish we as smokers still had rights

You still have the right to quit.

[quote]and places to go where we could to smoke.

Take it to the roof.

First-hand smoke: the way cigarettes and tobacco affect the body of the user. Second-hand smoke: the impact the use of cigarettes and tobacco have on the body of a user’s loved one (partner, spouse, children). Third-hand smoke: the toxic fumes and carcinogens produced by the chemical reaction generated when cigarette smoke interacts with finishes and coatings in the home (formaldehyde in furniture varnish, sizing in fabrics, polyester in carpets, etc.).

Though it isn't happening anywhere close to me, I can taste and feel that someone is smoking in my apartment building (a highrise, not a cut-up townhouse). My throat hurts. My tongue burns. I can't smell anything, though.

Back decades ago, cigarettes didn't stink like they do today. They used to smell like burning tobacco leaves, kind of similar to burning leaves in the fall. Not the same, but similar. Now, they smell like chemicals and ass.

Could turn me straight.

Fabulous

[quote]Back decades ago, cigarettes didn't stink like they do today. They used to smell like burning tobacco leaves, kind of similar to burning leaves in the fall. Not the same, but similar. Now, they smell like chemicals and ass.

How many decades ago, r83? I quit in 1987 and they seem to have the same stink now they did the day I quit.

Smoking is still allowed in bars in some states. When I visit states that still allow this, it feels very odd to be sitting there with smoking all around me. Unlike the shrieking MARYs! here, I don't mind a little cig smoke as long as the air isn't thick with it.

I 100 percent guarantee that's Coco Schwab in the first photo.

How ironic that Bowie, the smokiest smoker ever (until he quit--too late), isn't shown with his ciggie in the photo.

I adored "The Hunger," which was mostly montages of gorgeous people smoking, with billowing curtains behind them. It's what I'd do, too, if granted "eternal" life.

I have a old picture of my young father teaching in elementary school, smoking his pipe. That was in the 70s, I glad to tell you the kids survived that day, but they are living with PTSD.

It was never glamorous. I would find the taste of anyone who thinks so to be suspect, no matter in what area.

It's mind-boggling to think how much it's changed. I remember going to visit someone who'd just had a baby in the '80s, and you could smoke in the maternity ward.

I remember being a child in the '60s and '70s, gasping and miserable, forced to sit amongst all the smoking adults in closed spaces for hours on end. People didn't even open windows.

R77 and r76 Exactly why indoor smoking lounges should exist for smokers. Outside anyone can breathe it it in.

Not only did I abhor going out to clubs and bars and coming home smelling like an ashtray, but I detest with the fire of a thousand suns seeing cigarette butts on the ground (outdoor smoking should be banned too). Smoking is disgusting and I’m glad it’s been outlawed in most establishments.

Smoking is DISGUSTING.

I have 5-6 bronchital issues throughout my childhood due to my mother's excessive smoking. Today I have a very overreactive gag reflex so I have to cover my mouth when smokers are near me, the smell can actually trigger a full-out vomit attack.

No, r92. Exactly why you should QUIT, sociopath.

R95 You're projecting darling.

R86 I'm talking about the 60s, possibly early 70s. They stank of chemicals and ass by the 80s, but have still gotten progressively worse. It's like the cigarette companies want us to hate their product even more.

You breathe in chemicals all the fucking time. The only difference between the chemicals in the air and cigarette smoke is that you can see cigarette smoke.

Smoking is glamorous.

There was a great public service poster(that said that phrase) during the late 60s early 80s that was in every elementary school office. Would someone post it please, I can’t seem to on this darn phone. Thank you.

[quote]The only difference between the chemicals in the air and cigarette smoke is that you can see AND SMELL cigarette smoke.

Fixed.

Actually it read. Smoking is very glamorous.

R100, we get it, you don't like the smell, some non - smokers do. To each their own!

Darlings, it was fabulous.

For R99

[quote]I have 5-6 bronchital issues throughout my childhood due to my mother's excessive smoking. Today I have a very overreactive gag reflex so I have to cover my mouth when smokers are near me, the smell can actually trigger a full-out vomit attack.

Are you the same person who also vomits at the sight of an unlit cigarette?

ah ,,,,, the glamour of throat, mouth and lung cancer never ceases...

I have lung problems, emphasyma, from yrs of smoke, how dare u insinuate its a lovely act.

cancer be you sir !!!!

What a shame David Bowie died and we can't ask him if he'd choose to look glamourous smoking in hundreds of photos, or another ten years of life with his family including the grandchildren he never got to see. I'm an exsmoker and I was addicted to a dangerous drug, just like the vast majority of smokers are, no matter how rich, cool, stylish or beautiful they look in photos.

The literal have descended upon the thread to rasp at us about how bad smoking is. No kidding?

R108

Are you a doctor who is privy to Bowie's medical information? Did you examine him regularly? Non-smokers die of lung cancer as well, and smoking was definitely not the only risk factor in his life.

Only 1/10 smokers get lung cancer.

David Bowie died from liver cancer, which was most likely caused by the many years of drug abuse he indulged in.

R110 I know that. Smoking is a risk factor for many illnesses, including liver cancer.

R111 I know that as well. Hep C is the most likely cause of liver cancer as it happens. Lets not pretend that Bowie wouldn't have been healthier if he'd never smoked. Smokers in average live 10 years less than non smokers.

Yes r112 but it's ten years off at the end.

Smoking is literally cancer.

I miss the days when Mom and Dad would smoke cigarette after cigarette when we went for a long drive with all the windows up.

Bring back that glamour NOW!

The last 10 years are the dementia/Depends years, in a nursing home getting your ass wiped. No thanks.

I took a trip with a smoker as an adult a while back. I thought I'd died and gone to hell.

[quote]I took a trip with a smoker as an adult a while back.

WOW. That is so rude, to smoke in a car with someone who doesn't smoke.

Smokers' cars are disgusting -- you can never get rid of that smell.

WE all have to die sometime. Might as well have a little fun while you're here.

Norma concurs with you, OP

So many delicate flowers here. Be men for crissakes and be able to deal with a little smoke occasionally. Bogie would be ashamed of you.

r117 you already knew your traveling companion was a smoker, why were you surprised? Kind of like hanging out with a person you know is an alcoholic and then getting pissed that they're drunk all the time.

As long as you smoke Parliaments you should be ok. Stay away from Newports and Marb Reds.

A mother-of-pearl cigarette holder removes both the smell and the cancer.

Perfect example R122. Bogie had esphophigal cancer at 55 and died 2 years later. He weighed 85 pounds.

Truly glamorous.

"Marb." How affected.

Does the DL officially have a smoking troll?

It would appear to be so, r130. Maybe more than one. As counterbalance to the anti-smoking troll.

[quote] why were you surprised?

R124, I wasn't surprised that they smoked, I was surprised that their promise not to smoke in the car lasted all of 30 minutes. Apparently, as with any addict, the drug takes precedence over everything else.

All of those smokers from the 50s you mention also looked about 20 years older. I see a picture of Bogart in his 20s and I'm thinking he's pushing 50.

Remember when America was so much fun? New York was a blast? The party never ended? It all did end when America quit smoking.

It ended when you got old, R135. People always think "life was better back then" well, DUH. You were YOUNG. When you're young, everything seems better even if you lived in friggin Chernobyl.

Life is always more fun when you're young.

You haven’t [italic]really[/italic] had sex till you’ve shared a post coital cigarette.

That’s how you know you’re cheating.

R134, more bullshit from anti-smokers.

Bogart, in his twenties.

R138, yeah, that picture doesn't look touched at all. Did they use Barbara Walters entire supply of vaseline on the lens?

139? Touched up in what sense? Smoothed over, you mean? Because I see visible, subtle mind you, lines on his face.

Another picture, in his late 20s - early 30s. He looks his age. Cut the exaggerated bullshit, r139.

R140, how old was he in that one: 14?

"Marb" is just a shortcut. Nothing affected about it.

NYers do you remember years ago those tv ads and subway ads with the Guidette who lost all her fingers because she smoked?

I am the least judgmental person I know, and even I think smokers are trash

Regular cigarettes are bad but Menthol or any cigarette rolled in brown paper counts as a vegetable.

Menthols are supposed to be worse for you than regular cigarettes.

Your rights end where the next person’s rights begin, OP. Even if second hand smoke does not cause any disease or illness, if I do not want to smell it then I should not have to smell it.

Because someone brought up "third hand smoke", I'd just like to bring up the fact that tests done on the matter compared mice to human babies....right.. .

If secondhand smoke were so deadly, half the people from the Greatest Generation would've dropped dead from it. That generation inhaled cigarette smoke everywhere they went for 50 years.

Regulating a product to the point where you make a legal one seem or essentially illegal is the slippery slope which begat the SJWs, entitled cunts and fewer freedoms in general. "What next" comes to mind and what's next is basically Singapore.

R149 60s actually but you have to add in factors like war, diet, lack of proper medicine.

people who glamourize smoking should have their guts opened so they can see how black their lungs are, early death:::funz!

Non-smokers' pink lungs look pretty fucking gross, too.

I am also an ex smoker I quit when my daughter was born, 27 years ago.

Back around 1975, my dad was selected at NIH in Bethesda for a chemo therapy trial to treat his melanoma cancer. I traveled with my grandmother to visit, and yes, smoking was allowed in the plane. I even got my grandmother to buy me The Exorcist, a book banned by my mother, to read during the flight. My mom smoked. However, at the hospital, you could not smoke in the room, but you had to go into the waiting area outside. The heavy set gentleman in the next bed had severe emphysema, and almost every 2 hours, they would start up this equipment that would suck fluids out of his lungs. It was a horrible sound. However, his wife brought him his filter less Lucky Strikes, and he would smoke in-between his fluid sucking out sessions. Yep, it's a Glamorous Life!

R154

That's sad. People lose feet to diabetes but I don't vomit at the sight of cheeseburgers like some zealots on here apparently do with smokes...

Having to smoke in designated areas caused me to quit smoking a long time ago.

r154 = fucking frau who has to tell her whole life story (as if anyone gives a shit) in every fucking thread she posts in.

I'm tired of the oversharing frau/frauen. Nobody cares. No one wants to hear it. Please go back to Facebook.

R155, looking at cheeseburgers won't give you cancer, breathing in someone else's smoke can.

Honey, it was worth it.

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If you need a cigarette to look glamorous, then you're not.

Imagine Leonard without his cigs.

That’d be OK.

i'm definitely not one of those "smoking is dirty" prisses. I smoked myself through my twenties and thirties. but as soon as the smoking bans went into effect, after a week of wonder, NO one missed it

Blow me

They have far off corners designated for smokers where I work. Yet the prisses want that banned too. I’ll admit the smokers look like a really cool almost bunch of rebel outcasts and that’s appealing too. They always seem to be having fun and people are jealous wanting to be privy to their conversations, which is why they won’t accept smoking only clubs. Because everyone knows all the cool people will want to go there.

The second-hand smoke myth was the biggest hoax pulled upon modern society. People inhale car fumes and go to barbecues and don’t get me started on the air in cities.

Smokers are inconsiderate and selfish assholes. Smoking outside in public is just as grotesque.

On a side note: I got a job out of high school at a hospital in Northern California in November of 1990...smoking was still allowed inside until Jan.1 1991. AND...I was a freshman in high school in 1986 and there was still a smoking section! Students AND teachers would gather in front of our main gym to smoke. There was a yellow line painted on the ground and smokers could smoke behind that line. Jan. 1, 1987, it was illegal.

This thread proves that smokers are no better than anti-vaxxers, and they stink.

Without the smokes would Joni still be Joni?

I wonder if the Olsen twins will ever quit smoking. They’re outside smoking, here.

I have emphasyma,,,, im filled with disgust at havin to smell smoke of others outside our ANYWHERE. THE SHIT KILLS U !!!!!

R174 smoked 40 years.

No love for cigars?

And pipes?

Arnie

Yes, sir.

armie hammer can smoke while he fuks my little ass hole..

That white trash boi smoking.... WOWOWOWOWOWO!

I find cigarette smoking sexy on sexy people.

Shoot me.