Me too. "It lasts a lot longer and isn't nearly as dangerous since it isn't an open flame," they told me.

They sell punk for this. They look like incense sticks without any scent. Just a smoldering slow burning stick, used to light fireworks with.

I think I just remembered something similar

I once found a full pack of cigarettes on the ground at age ~10. I quickly figured out that lighting it on fire and using the cigarette to set off fireworks was so much easier than using a lighter. I didn't even think of smoking it, I just left it lit on the ground and used it as a lighter.

I didn't understand why my parents were so worried when they found out lol.

It was one of six you could choose from back then. That was it. Only six haircuts to choose from. /s

The Dorothy Hamill cut. It was huge after the '76 Olympics:

I had a crush on Susan, the new girl in the 4th grade, a redhead with that cut. I threw up on her shoes, once. She never talked to me.

Yep they smoke with windows rolled up in the cars, and in the house. Hell it was rare to find someone who didn't smoke. Then they got all shocked when we all picked up the habit as well when we got old enough to do so.

Luckily for my kids I quit when they were young and yeah I don't really know anyone who smokes cigarettes anymore.

I was a grown ass adult before I knew how awful cigarettes smelled simply because I was always surrounded by smoke I just thought that was how the world smelled.

Oh god that must have sucked and sorry about your mom.

Man, to a non-smoker the world must have smelled like ass back then.

My dad was made to quit by my mum in 1973 when they had their first. By my birth in 77 I was really only around smokers at parties or friends houses.

Still didn't stop me picking up the habit mind you, but I course corrected lol

Where I grew up you could smoke in bars when I was in high-school. Not only was I allowed to go in but the place was also absolutely full of cigarette smoke. Many of those basement bars shut down completely after one caught fire a few years ago. It was a huge scandal

I'm a school bus driver and a majority of my colleagues smoke. Some things will never change.

When I was a kid in the '70s there were cigarette vending machines everywhere. If you wanted to smoke, you could smoke.

I imagine any adults with poor handwriting did not benefit from this cigarette home delivery system

"Nice try, Timmy. You clearly wrote that note yourself"

Same. Hell I remember wearing a Benson&Hedges sports cap (oxymoron if I heard one...) up until the age of 16, despite having never smoked

Still acceptable in Vietnam. Shocking to me, a tourist.

Hold the smoke deeply in your lungs -- it's the best thing for you!

Sleeper (1973)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=485Em2JF34M

But at least she never got a yeast infection

Not lady like. That's old man smoking.

On the stove? I believe that is for gravy.