People would smoke in church? During the service?
“Hey, if god didn’t want me to smoke he shouldn’t have invented cigarettes”
Re:The Disappearance of the Ashtray
by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:36AM
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In some of the more old school churches I went to in Missouri yeah. More on the Kansas side of my family it was more everyone would smoke in the foyer / approaching steps or such, and it'd just suck through the whole building the whole day.
If a lot of worshipers smoked outside just beforehand, it would still smell of stale cigs inside.
I remember this as an old joke:
It's sinful to smoke while you're praying, but it's virtuous to pray while you're smoking.
I was a kid during that time and even though I didn't smoke I only started to smell this when I was out of contact with cigarettes smoke for a week. My senses adapted quickly back in smoking environment and I couldn't smell the stench any more.
But the main thing is the smell of stale cigarette smoke was just like this undercurrent of any public place you went. Everyone's car. Churches. Everywhere it was that smell.
Also at least where I was in KS, store clerks didn't give a crap. We could buy smokes in middle school if we wanted. Thankfully I never did more than a brief fascination with cloves (and believe me, smoking too many cloves one night because you're upset over a girl will cure you of that).