>>>>When you and I were kids, there were no bicycle helmets; so nobody wore one. When my dad was a kid, there were no seat belts in cars, so nobody wore one. Good ideas evolve.
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>>>And everybody smoked. On (in) the buses, trains, movies, parliament sessions, ambulance waiting rooms. We are practically kids of people who must have died before they met, they all smoked so much.
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>>Hard to believe that there were ashtrays in movie theatre chairs and it was common to smoke while watching a movie...
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>And there were ashtrays in the backs of the bus seats, armrests of airplane seats, walls of compartments on trains, and any lobby anywhere.

I looked at one new car that comes standard without an ashtray. For $20 or $25 you could buy a "smoker's convenience package" -- a cigarette lighter and an ashtray.