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[–] NegativeInf 78 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I was born in the early 90s and remember making fun of the idea that a non-smoking section separated from active smokers in the IHOP by a thin barrier that didn't even reach the ceiling could do anything.

Boy, leaded gasoline really fucked up whole generations, didn't it? Oh... We are still dealing with the fallout from that, aren't we?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was born in the early 90s and remember making fun of the idea that a non-smoking section separated from active smokers in the IHOP by a thin barrier that didn't even reach the ceiling could do anything.

Barrier? Most restaurants barely divided the two with an aisle.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tim Hortons had the smoking box, I'd give a lot to find a photo of it. Basically it was one of the last holdouts.

[–] bitchkat 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Minneapolis airport had a smoking room in one of the concourses. It had glass walls and was as gross as you could imagine. I held my breath everytime I walked past

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Holy crap that's a memory unlocked, transferring in Minneapolis and holding my breath as you walk past the smoking area

[–] BlameItOnSomeone 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A smoking area in a restaurant was about as useful as setting up a pissing area in a pool....

[–] bitchkat 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You got that backwards. Smoking section was the default state. The non-smoking section was the special.

[–] rekorse 8 points 4 months ago

Dumping water in a piss pool then?

[–] halcyoncmdr 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm still convinced that lead poisoning was the catalyst for the fall of the Roman empire. And they weren't even breathing tainted air constantly.

We still use lead pipes for water infrastructure in many areas of the country for fucks sake.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 10 points 4 months ago

Fun fact: ancient and medieval societies had so much fucking lead around because lead is commonly found in silver ore (galena), usually around 100X more plentiful than the silver and it melts at a lower temperature. So the quest for silver produced huge amounts of lead as a byproduct and people found uses for it like roofs, water pipes and, uh, sweeteners? Jesus Christ, Rome.