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Where did people tap their ash before the smoking ban?

  • 16-04-2015 12:17AM
    #1
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 944 ✭✭✭


    Now, I'm quite naive on this subject, as I would've only been 7 or 8 when the ban was introduced, and never really took any notice. Obviously, in a bar or restaurant, they simply would have tapped it in an ash tray. But what about the likes of shops, where someone isn't stationary? Were people generally allowed smoke in them? Were there ash trays all over the place? Did people simply tap their ash on the floor? I'm genuinely curious about this.


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    You didn't walk in anywhere with a cigarette.


  • #3
    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    kneemos wrote: »
    You didn't walk in anywhere with a cigarette.

    :confused: I did. I used to walk in everywhere with a cigarette.


  • #4
    DaBlackMask
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭DaBlackMask


    On the cashiers head, I used to pretend it was Ash Wednesday :)

    Nah they had little tin foil ashtrays


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    On the ground mostly.

    I was about 18/19 when the ban came in and can remember how damned annoying it was to be out before. Don't know how many times I got burned and then they'd blame you for it somehow.

    Just to add - the OP is young as f*ck.


  • #6
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Nobody smoked in shops, which makes those clowns who walk around shops with their e-cigs look like even bigger clowns.


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  • #7
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Desolation Of Smug wrote: »
    :confused: I did. I used to walk in everywhere with a cigarette.

    No.

    You didn't walk in anywhere with a cigarette.


  • #8
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    It was usually customary that you would extinguish your cigarette on your wife's arm, such were the times.


  • #9
    The Backwards Man
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    Young bastard!!! :p


  • #10
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    BetterThanThou wrote: »
    Now, I'm quite naive on this subject, as I would've only been 7 or 8 when the ban was introduced, and never really took any notice. Obviously, in a bar or restaurant, they simply would have tapped it in an ash tray. But what about the likes of shops, where someone isn't stationary? Were people generally allowed smoke in them? Were there ash trays all over the place? Did people simply tap their ash on the floor? I'm genuinely curious about this.
    There were bans on smoking in commercial premises and public buildings long long before the ban on smoking everywhere. Although people were still doing so on the sly here and there (e.g. offices I worked in in the early 2000s) but officially it was forbidden.
    There was a time (up to, I dunno... the 80s?) when people smoked in cinemas, and bank tellers could have a fag while counting your money if they wished. Seems so bizarre now.


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Does anyone remember the biggest side-effect of the smoking ban in pubs and clubs?

    You could actually smell the places, once the smell of smoke was gone. And they stank to high heavens. The smell of sweat, of the toilets, of farts, and of incredibly bad B.O. The first few weeks were horrible.


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  • #12
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,116 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    Deleted User wrote: »
    On the ground mostly.

    I was about 18/19 when the ban came in and can remember how damned annoying it was to be out before. Don't know how many times I got burned and then they'd blame you for it somehow.

    Yeah, I remember (as a non smoker) when we used to regularly find little burn marks on clothes after a night out - you'd just either brushed against one, or been brushed against without noticing. Really annoying as it was usually something new or good, since you were wearing it out somewhere.

    I don't remember getting burned myself, tbh. TF!

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • #13
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,978 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    I often wondered that myself! I have no recollection of people smoking inside, seems so strange now.

    My husband remembers it and said you couldn't even see the other side of the pub sometimes!


  • #14
    Dozer Dave
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 491 ✭✭Dozer Dave


    kneemos wrote: »
    No.

    You didn't walk in anywhere with a cigarette.

    Not now but before the ban it was not an issue, mass was my only exception unless I stayed in the porch.


  • #15
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,116 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the biggest side-effect of the smoking ban in pubs and clubs?

    You could actually smell the places, once the smell of smoke was gone. And they stank to high heavens. The smell of sweat, of the toilets, of farts, and of incredibly bad B.O. The first few weeks were horrible.

    Ah yeah, that too. And the smell of alcohol when you walked in - that was such a shock! Bars had never smelled of actual alcohol before!

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • #16
    Turtyturd
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the biggest side-effect of the smoking ban in pubs and clubs?

    Broken noses/jaws due to rows outside pubs....at least according to the Herald. Think they reported 30 million on the first weekend.


  • #17
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    Desolation Of Smug wrote: »
    :confused: I did. I used to walk in everywhere with a cigarette.


    The one good thing about the smoking ban though (and I say this while I'm actually puffing away on a cigarette here) is that people weren't allowed smoke in restaurants any more. I remember I used go into Bewleys for the breakfast and was almost teary eyed with the smoke coming from the "smoking section".

    I do miss actually being able to smoke when I was in a bar so in that respect the smoking ban has made me feel sometimes like I couldn't be bothered going for a drink. It's still hard to get used to since, when was it introduced, 2004?

    We also used be able to smoke in the workplace I worked in at the time, and that was outdoors and indoors in a large hangar/workshop type place, where we used just stub the cigarettes out on the floor with our foot.


  • #18
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    You had to hide under your tongue and say five hail mary's


  • #19
    Desolation Of Smug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭Desolation Of Smug


    kneemos wrote: »
    No.

    You didn't walk in anywhere with a cigarette.

    Oh yeah I did. I have one lit all day every day. I still do.


  • #20
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    The Blanchardstown centre didn't ban smoking until very late on, might have been all the way up to the smoking ban. Always thought that was a bit odd. Then again it's D15 we're talking about...

    Kinda on the OP's subject, why do smokers think their litter isn't litter?


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    The Blanchardstown centre didn't ban smoking until very late on, might have been all the way up to the smoking ban. Always thought that was a bit odd. Then again it's D15 we're talking about...

    Kinda on the OP's subject, why do smokers think their litter isn't litter?

    The Eyre Square Centre in Galway was the same. Remember that the main eating area was so inefficiently divided up between smoker and non-smoker.


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  • #22
    Rational Male
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34 ✭Rational Male


    As an ex smoker I remember putting out fags anywhere in nightclubs.. Tapping the ash on the floor..fairly disgraceful when you think about it.


  • #23
    Simon2015
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Simon2015


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    The Blanchardstown centre didn't ban smoking until very late on, might have been all the way up to the smoking ban. Always thought that was a bit odd. Then again it's D15 we're talking about...

    Kinda on the OP's subject, why do smokers think their litter isn't litter?


    It was the same in the Square in Tallaght. Once the ban came in they kept telling people over the intercom it was now illgeal to smoke in the shopping centre.


  • #24
    porsche959
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    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    There was a time (up to, I dunno... the 80s?) when people smoked in cinemas, and bank tellers could have a fag while counting your money if they wished. Seems so bizarre now.

    Yep. And on the top floors on buses (and before that, presumably, though I'm not old enough to remember) anywhere in the bus.


  • #25
    WoollyRedHat
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    Angela's.


  • #26
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    Kinda on the OP's subject, why do smokers think their litter isn't litter?

    Prioritisation?

    http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/polluted_places/linfen.jpg


  • #27
    ArseBurger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ArseBurger


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Nobody smoked in shops, which makes those clowns who walk around shops with their e-cigs look like even bigger clowns.

    Of course they did. In the 80s and 90s shop keepers would smoke behind the counter.
    In 1990 smoking was banned in public buildings. Prior to that, for example, college students and lecturers used to smoke in lecture halls.

    I'm not saying any of this was 'right'. It's just what used to be.


  • #28
    hopgog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭hopgog


    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    The one good thing about the smoking ban though (and I say this while I'm actually puffing away on a cigarette here) is that people weren't allowed smoke in restaurants any more. I remember I used go into Bewleys for the breakfast and was almost teary eyed with the smoke coming from the "smoking section".

    I do miss actually being able to smoke when I was in a bar so in that respect the smoking ban has made me feel sometimes like I couldn't be bothered going for a drink. It's still hard to get used to since, when was it introduced, 2004?

    We also used be able to smoke in the workplace I worked in at the time, and that was outdoors and indoors in a large hangar/workshop type place, where we used just stub the cigarettes out on the floor with our foot.

    Smoking ban killed going to the pub when I was in college at the time, started more of the stay in the house then going to the college bar


  • #29
    sligojoek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    I remember going in to the credit union in Nenagh one day with a fag in my hand. Before I got got the counter I realised I should have put it out before I went in. I turned for the door and the woman behind the counter said ' Come back in. I love the smell of cigarettes.'


  • #30
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Smoking on planes. Remember being on some flight beside a chain smoking businesswoman on a flight and that was only in 1990 or 91.

    The past is a different country.


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  • #31
    SuperS54
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    I remember taking a Spanish airline to Malaga when most airlines had already banned smoking, maybe Futura, and being delighted that they had a smoking section, signed up to that. What a mistake! The ability to smoke at will was great however the pall of smoke cutting the eyes from your head was horrific in the enclosed cabin, had a massive headache midway through the flight as well. The smoking "area" was defined by moveable signs on the side wall depending on how many smokers there were, there was no physical barrier with the rest of the plane. I was near the front of the "area" and the flight must have been pure hell for those sitting at the back of the non smoking area. Of course the intelligent smokers booked seats up front and then came back to stand in the smoking "area" to have their cigarette before exiting smoghell/cancerville and returning to their seats. I was up front for the return flight and actually didn't smoke at all.


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