30 Things That Used To Be A Big Deal Back In 2000, But Have Faded Out, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group

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this is actually smart....should be everywhere

Limewire, where you didn’t know if you were downloading the Dookie album or an album of viruses. Good times

a change that no one regrets......at least I hope no one

I watched an old movie, and there was a scene where the patient was smoking in their hospital room/bed.

In old films and TV shows, everybody constantly smoking! I remember the stink of it, and I grew up with smokers!

I hated working in the smoking section of a restaurant as a server. People would blow out smoke in your face when ordering or filling drinks. I would get so angry!

Try explaining lighting up on an airline! I used to fly the red eye from LA to Boston. Scotch and a cigarette or two before sleeping then waking up in Boston and lighting one up in the airport after grabbing my coffee.....the college kids I talk too, their jaws drop.....

Ruined dining in Paris for me

Tell them about the non-smoking sections—-in all kinds of totally enclosed spaces, like bars, restaurants, trains, planes, etc—-that the smoke would drift into. Fun fun fun for someone who gets really sick headaches when too much smoke gets in her eyes and lungs. Can’t tell you how many nights I went out and had to shower when I got home, plus wash my hair that I already washed before going out, and put my clothes in the washer because everything on me stunk like the bottom of a dirty ashtray from OTHER people smoking around me. Pissed me off every single time. If you think smoking is sexy, you have never smelled yourself. Oh wait, sorry. You can’t smell yourself because smoking deprives you of your sense of smell (and taste, too). Then let me clue you in. You STINK. Your hair, your clothes, your dirty nicotine stained fingers, and your breath f*****g STINK. And stink isn’t sexy.

I remember the smoking section on planes and in cinemas, one cigarette shared with everybody else there.

Now they just smoke right beside the front doors.

It's hell for people with asthma.

My apartment building had new management take over and all new tenants cannot smoke inside the suites. I can understand why. Every time a smoking tenant moved out they would have to repaint, shampoo/replace the carpets and clean everything. When I moved into my apartment there was nicotine on every surface I had to clean myself. The guy below me smoked and it was coming up into my suite. The older tenants are grandfathered in to still be able to smoke and some of the hallways in the building reek of cigarettes it's hard to breath. It's a selfish habit. I commend those who are more considerate and want to quit. My high hatred is towards rude smokers.

I can't be around smoke due to my heart, so even jerks that can't obey signs at store fronts ticks me off. People don't realize how much other people with disabilities miss out on. It's a privilege to smoke. It's necessity to breathe. Glad restaurants don't allow it anymore. I get to enjoy some luxuries that others take for granted.

I remember when my parents smoked indoors when I was a child. My dad enjoyed a cigar in the evenings. They both gave up decades ago.

My grandpa used to walk around in the grocery store smoking a cigarette.

And trains, cars, planes, cinemas, hospitals, shops…..

I absolutely HATED that! I'm soooooo glad that's on the past

…restaurants, cars, kitchens, at the table and on planes…

Elated when the indoor smoking ban came in effect. Now smoking on patios is banned, too. But doesn't stop people from standing nearby, off the patio, and blowing it into the wind towards you while you're trying to enjoy a seafood loaf.

Like when we watch films mad in the '50s and typists are smoking at their desks while working!

And Doctors smoking in hospital wards whilst doing rounds. 😡😡😡

Now who will people blame for dying of obesity?

I remember being okaym to smoke in grocery stores.

And that dated memory of a doctor coming into the examining room to see the patient, while smoking...maybe both of them.

I am old enough to remember people being allowed on planes.

You can still do this in many restaurants in China.

I miss being able to smoke in bars. Going outside for a smoke and going back in to find someone had nicked your table.

We've banned it basically everywhere except for your garden (if you have one) but people kinda ignore it... at clubs and bars you will still get people smoking here. Also MJ, since that got unbanned. Fortunately, in cars too - if there are passengers. Once place I lived in the walls and ceiling were orange (as in, Trump Orange Pantone), due to nicotine. Ew.