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01904ed0 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @4eb8aaa5 @0c1a9324 @1da41359 but before vaping (and definitely before the indoor smoking ban) it was constantly walking into clouds of burnt tobacco and was infinitely worse
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Charlie Stross | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @73217061 @4eb8aaa5 @1da41359 I do NOT miss the era of going to the pub for an evening and having to wash my entire wardrobe, and my hair, when I got home. (And I was a couple of decades younger back then, so the stench didn't affect me as badly).
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Jim Hughes | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0c1a9324 @73217061 @1da41359 it wasn't just the pub, I remember upstairs on the buses or smoking carriages on trains being a perma-fog
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Charlie Stross | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @4eb8aaa5 @73217061 @1da41359 I remember smoking on airliners. Yechhh.
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ab3b64ef | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0c1a9324 @73217061 @4eb8aaa5 @1da41359 waking up with a full-on smoker's cough, even though you didn't smoke.

Agreed.

Don't miss it at all.
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9c4e56f4 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0c1a9324 @73217061 @4eb8aaa5 @1da41359 It was horrendous, I used to put all my clothes in a bin bag, tie the top and leave it outside, then have a shower. If, after a few, you made the mistake of getting into bed unwashed, you paid next day with a change of sheets. Duvet covers with a hangover... 🤮