• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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.