>>>>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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>I am surprised that new cars today still have ashtrays.

Some of them don't. The ones I looked at recently had cup holders where you could put an ashtray (form fitted to go there) in one of them and you had to pay for the ashtray if you wanted one. I actually asked because I noticed there wasn't one and I thought it was unusual. I only looked at small cars though and most were imports other than Saturn so maybe they are still common in American cars?