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You don't really see people chewing gum anymore. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] pHr34kY 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People chewed gum to fix their breath after smoking tobacco, and I don't see people doing that anymore either.

The ads never said that gum was for smokers, but it's for smokers.

[–] theangryseal 2 points 9 months ago

Oh no, they absolutely did say that.

I distinctly remember commercials that said, “you can’t smoke at work, so you need such and such gum”.

That’s for a different reason, but it was tied to smoking at least.