Who Remembers When Smoking Was Cool ?

He does not look well !

We had a back plastic chesterfield sofa with a pine frame and filled with non fire retardant foam
The dogs used to share it and it was really comfortable to sleep on

I don't recall 'Comes with free HCN' being a selling point in the brochure

Yes .... i forgot about that 😁

My brother and I liked to go to the upstairs clothing department (must have been Coop) with its thick carpets shuffle our feet and then zap each other with electric shocks!

Happy days !

Smoking is generally not good, but cigars >>> cigarettes and vapes

And didn't forget pipes !

Why does my generation prefer vapes to pipes, why would they rather look like a douchebag than a wizard?!

Who knows ?

I remember reading The Hobbit for the first time, on a fine spring day many years ago. Good day :)

Good day to you 🧐

Which ‘good day’ do you mean?

I thought your last comment meant you were saying goodbye so I meant it as a courtesy

Oh no, I was referencing the first conversation between Bilbo and Gandalf :)

I've actually never read the Hobbit or Lord Of The Rings

NO WAY DUDE you need to read both, they’re amazing. Start with The Hobbit, it goes before the Lord of the Rings. I love those books so much

This string is full so answering here.
I used to be a massive fan of books but have now become a bit lazy
I've seen little bits of the the films but not really my thing
I also might be someone who has never seen any Star Wars films for the same reason

I’ve never seen Star Wars myself lmfao

Also have you ever read a Nero Wolfe novel?

Nero Wolfe: I don't read books anymore 🙁

That's what smokers are going to be if they keep smoking.

It's a warning

smoking is so nasty and there's a million reasons why to not smoke

I you look up the statistics.
The decline in smoking in the population has gone from 70% in the 1970's down to 15% today

So 70% of Americans used to smoke and now it's 15%?

They are the UK statistics

In America it's 12.5%. It used to be 37.4% in the 1970's

Heading in the right direction 👍

Anyways I know you're from the UK but check out my map.

imgflip.com/i/a0f4i9

If you describe 'Aura' as a quality of life and attitude of the population, then the UK is straying into the dark green

I was thinking about this.

Without the UK, the USA wouldn't exist.

The UK empire was pretty epic

Some of my ancestors are Scottish (and I think I have some in the other parts of the UK)

And Stonehenge is pretty cool, but it's kind of boring.

But some things are bad about the UK.

For example, you would get locked up for social media posts

And there's some sketchy stuff with terrorists converting prisoners to muslim

But, Scotland (future country maybe?), Northern Ireland, Wales, and the Peninsula south of Wales are the good parts. The rest of England's pretty eh. (Also which part do you live in?)

Overall, I will add more colors to the map for the world map one. UK would get the second best, but not the infinite aura.

String reached capacity so answering here:
I live 25 miles south of London out in the countryside. Not to bad here so far

That's good.

Now stopping here.

Looks like the oof stones started smoking

Blowing rings !

Lmfao

I hear the soundtrack
https://youtu.be/GIuZUCpm9hc?si=uJjH9vDz1NN7fUGS

I remember when cigarette ashtrays were commonplace and when you could grab cigarettes off of the shelf yourself instead of needing a clerk to hand them to you. Does that count?

The thing is, they were never that cool - that's the point of this meme - sarcasm
I remember when you could get them out of a vending machine

Of course they weren't. Smoking involves combustion, and combustion is hot.

It also doesn't do your lungs any good - I gave up 10 years ago - Still affected by it with my breathing 🙁

PLEASE NOTE: The title of this Gif in supposed to be sarcastic ... It's a very expensive habit so don't do it